A friendship made in Hades —

The playlist is “Canadian pop” at Hades’ indie coffee shop — TW: a song you can’t stop singing, all respect to Tal Bachman. From web comic, “Persephone in Hell.”

The payoff is paying off your student loans — From the web comic, Persephone in Hell, where baristas in classical Hades make the lattes of the gods.

It’s difficult before coffee — An excerpt from “Persephone in Hell,” a web comic about a coffee shop in Hades. See it all (so far), here: saraharveypatrick.com/persephones

An epic soundtrack for finding the fusebox

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Upon a Tennessee county board of education banning Art Spiegelman’s Maus — The County Board of Education met in a called meeting this week. The transcript is as follows: Director Brad Towson — Terry Brown came by my office Monday to talk about the rough language he overheard in New York City when they went to see Lion King. We decided the…

David Sedaris is the silver bullet for Blue Monday — Commentary on life, art and Cheetoes for Winter Storm Izzy, featuring writers David Sedaris, Joan Didion and Jamie Attenberg. We’re not going to see the moon tonight with the Saskatchewan Screamer throwing Winter Storm Izzy all over Western New York like cold confetti, but there are books to stare into…

Don’t toy with a vegetarian from South Jersey —