Autobiographigure: The Courageous Quest for a Toy in One's Own Image

Lowbrow Literati

[10 October 2007]

by Monte Williams

The shelves of our great nation's toy retailers are seldom stocked with action figures of flabby, furry, graying columnists, but that could change . . .

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