2011
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Swamps Meet Hitchcock
“So I guess I don’t feel like I seek strangeness out—I feel like we’re all surrounded by it—but there’s so much bewildering noise in our culture right now, at such a deafening and constant volume, that it’s easy for me…
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
In at least two of his novels, Thomas Pynchon mentions a Porky Pig cartoon from the 1930s. Here is the reference from The Crying of Lot 49 (1965), as Oedipa Maas listens to an old man named Thoth, whose grandfather…
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Adam Purple’s Garden of Eden
“I first met Adam Purple in 1978, when journalist Norman Green and I did a story about him for New York Magazine,” says photographer Harvey Wang, in an interview with Vanishing New York. “I found [Adam] to be one of…
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Secondary Occupants
“Specimen portrait banners” from Julian Montague‘s installation Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed:
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Bad News Borders
Yesterday we mentioned that Borders had filed for bankruptcy. Well this morning brings more bad news for the country’s second largest bookstore chain, as the corporation will most likely be closing 75 more branches than originally reported. (via PW)
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Matthew Stranach: The Last Book I Loved, Night Work
I do not play hockey. I do not watch hockey on TV. I have no memories of youthful visits to bone-cold arenas at five o’clock in the morning to thwack pucks. Many of my friends go batshit crazy when their…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but there may be a giant gas planet hiding over there. Your Mid-Century Modernist design porn for the day. How is predictive text changing us? Letters of Note + Muppets = the best thing…
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Where I Write #3: Wherever and Whenever I Can
At the moment, I’m writing in a cafeteria full of adult nerds who are parents of teenaged nerds, some of whom will likely be running the country twenty years from now.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The US Government shut down over 84,000 websites . . . by “mistake.” Google launches a way for publishers to set prices on their digital content. Speaking of publishing, is Apple’s new fee structure for premium content obscenely greedy? Verizon…
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Monstrous Poetry
Poets in Wisconsin are turning monstrous. The writer-artists behind the Monsters of Poetry reading series in Madison have been busy making self-portraits and collages that depict themselves — and the very idea of poetry — as the beastly, macabre stuff…