Single Man Seeking Woman 4 Duets in Sacramento, CA
Let’s find this guy a karaoke girlfriend (he posts his phone number here).
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Dead Ahead
Doller’s facility with language, and his wheeling imagination, which pushes language into fresh directions, never ceases to delight the reader.
A Quaint, Midafternoon Panic Attack by Virginia Woolf and Other Improved Titles
Ever love a book but hate the title? Blogger Dan Wilbur feels your pain. Check out his new site Better Book Titles. One Long Sentence About Handjobs is way catchier…
Used Is In
Used books are on the rise, fueling book sales from Salt Lake City to Saint Louis. Take notes, Wall Street – while not many companies can say they made money…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #47: The Reckoning
Our kids deserve that, don’t they? To be loved shimmeringly? Yes, they do. So let’s get to it.
Morning Coffee
Just another reason to love Japan: Kyoto’s Iwatayama Monkey Park. The sweetest montage video you’ll see all day. Pretty darn fantastic dirty car art. (via Flavorwire) Ok, this video is…
Out Of Ugliness Comes Great Things
“I can’t help wondering if ugliness is not indispensable to philosophy. Sartre seems to be suggesting that thinking — serious, sustained questioning — arises out of, or perhaps with, a…
The Latest on Prop 8
The stay is lifted, sort of. Judge Vaughn Walker decided today that same-sex marriages can resume in California on August 18. You can read the final stay order here. Why…
Remembering Tony Judt
Tony Judt, the British historian and social critic, died last Friday at 62 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Although it left him nearly…
A Great American Novelist Unveiled
“This week marks the first time that a full-time, professional writer—a ‘living American writer,’ as the New York Times puts it, (published politicians, movie stars, and athletes have day jobs,…
Autochromes
They look colorized but these images from the Albert Kahn collection are autochromes — the earliest true color photos — and besides being nifty and nostalgic, they seem to live…