2009
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/21-12/27
This week, celebrate Christmas (or don’t), partake in a jingly Reindeer Run Flash Mob, and then celebrate your inner goth kid at The Nightmare After Christmas. Monday 12/21: Celebrate the holiday season with class (because everyone knows that jazz music…
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Notable New York, This Week 12/21 – 12/27
This week in New York William Hurt converses at 92Y, Steve Beck performs the Goldberg Variations, Janeane Garofalo and Todd Barry in Comedy Below Canal, Christmas Eve klezmer party, Charlie Chaplin films are screened at the Walter Reade, Roger Ballen…
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Madmen Across the Water
(Hildebrand chocolate card, c. 1900) I’m in this week’s New Scientist with a brief history of aquatic pedestrianism:
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #16
You got it all wrong, Doug. You can’t use the elevator if there’s a fire. This is an earthquake, so press “L” and stop bitching. We don’t have a lot of time. More.
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Jared Pappas-Kelley: The Last Book I Loved, Branwell
Douglas A. Martin’s Branwell is a novel that bleeds the line between novel and historical fact. It’s written in a style that traces the tragic story of Branwell Brontë—the lesser known brother in the Brontë family—and composites it through the…
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Morning Coffee
Today is the shortest day of the year, it’s all up from here. The electronic telegraph is going to destroy the newspaper industry. (via Moviecitynews.) Ice caves! The Korean airforce have developed a pedal powered airplane. Dang! Meanwhile scientists have…
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Pete Seeger–The Voice that Belongs to the Body
He picked me up at the Cold Spring train station: a tall, lone and gawky, slightly bent, grizzled, yet still unmistakable figure at the other end of the platform shading his blue eyes from the rain.
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SMALL POTATOES: Holiday Theatre
Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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How I Managed to Sneak the Words/Phrases “Hobo,” “Astronaut Juice,” and “E.L. Fudge” onto the NY Times Sunday Op-Ed Page
All in one story! It is the tale of a third-grade indiscretion that also happens to also be an economic parable for our time. It involves snacks. In addition to the above snacks, there are appearances by classics — Cheetos,…
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The Sunday Book Blog Roundup
With so many shopping days left until whenever, there is no end to the amount of printed matter out there that is riveting, ravishing and ultimately rewarding. The book blogs are overwhelming to someone like me who wants to read…