Register To Vote
If you live in California, tomorrow’s the last day to register to vote. You can download the form and print and sign and mail it in here. Or you can…
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2010
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Handwriting Is Important I Guess
“During one study at Indiana University published this year, researchers invited children to man a “spaceship,” actually an MRI machine using a specialized scan called “functional” MRI that spots neural…
“The World According To San Francisco”
I think this might be an accurate map, but I can’t remember with all the free pot and cocaine the mayor keeps giving me.
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Not exactly a book blog, but what the hell. The PANK Queer Issue is really freakin’ good. MOBYLIVES thinks Amazon is spamming their comment thread with pro-Kindle content. I think…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday is Rumpus Books time. Below the fold, reviews, essays and even an interview with our founding editor.
National Feral Cat Day
There really is a day set aside for everything, I think, not that I mind in this case. I discovered via Balloon Juice that today is National Feral Cat Day,…
Welcome to the World of Tomorrow
I found this link while nosing around for Science Saturday, and decided I wanted to do a post on it by itself. Popular Mechanics and Gregory Benford are releasing a…
Science Saturday
Some great images of the leftovers from the Soviet Moon program. Why does Saturn’s moon Iapetus look like a walnut? (Seriously, it looks like a walnut.) The next generation of…
Saturday Morning Links
Just finished mid-term week here at Casa Letter-Spears, so it seems quite appropriate to begin with the five stages of grading. Indeed, Mr. Fish. Indeed. Bill Morris at The Millions…
The Eyeball #35: Un Chien Andalou
I’m teaching a class at Richard Hugo House in which we look at experimental films as writing prompts. I’ve always wanted to teach a film class, and marrying writing exercises…
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Stephen Elliott
“We all think we’re retaliating,” Elliott writes. “We all think our actions are justified by someone else’s actions. But actually we’re responsible for what we do.”