2009
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Morning Coffee
It is getting increasingly hard to fill this section with anything but year-end retrospectives, but I like this graph quite a bit. Hubble’s best images of 2009 (see above). The Russians are trying to lead the way on leaching. (via…
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Wry Humor, Dark Wisdom, Lissome Women, Cigarettes
I think French film entices me because I know so little about French language and culture; it suggests an as-yet-unexplored world of magical, incomprehensible people.
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The Swamp Ladies of Estonia
Putting together this post of Estonian children’s books, I found myself squirming with delight and confusion. I hope something similar happens to you when scrolling through it!
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Le Guin Resigns
Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of “21 novels, 11 volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, 12 books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation,” has resigned from the Authors Guild because of the organization’s…
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Random Media Notes
Amazon reports that Kindle Books outsold real books on Christmas day (and Mashable shows why that’s just PR smoke and mirrors). An argument for schools to stop blocking social networking sites. Crime reporters in Mexico face deadly peril. The Society…
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Photocopied and Stapled
I’m not sure if 2009’s quality crop of zines was a reaction to the sad state of print media, but it would hardly surprise me if that was indeed the case. Through casual observation, a thumb-through of the Microcosm Publishing…
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Morning Coffee
Warhol’s sport star polaroids. Who doesn’t love a sweaty bat? Contemporary artists design New York taxi signs. Yep. Seed Magazine, going through their best articles of the year, brings you this look at scientists competing to find new worlds. I…
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Jeffrey Lewis – ‘Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror’
Read the Rumpus interview with Jeffrey Lewis, and be sure to check out today’s 2009: The Year in Music.
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2009: The Year in Music
January: Kimya Dawson, Remember That I Love You (2006) One route on the Metro-North railroad begins in New Haven and ends at Grand Central Station in New York City.