Dan Weiss’s MOrning Coffee
Not to get all science-y on you or anything. What’s up Dawn Runner? This may be the reason why you are a racist. (stop being such a racist!) If you…
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Crows and Taxis: Writing to the South Sudan
Crows circle, straight out of a novel by Kenya’s Nobel-nominee Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Only, the crows are circling the hotel pool, not the bush.
The Brewing Of Lot 49
How did Los Angeles, that haven of low-culture and strip mall malaise beat us (San Francisco) to the punch with high-brow coffee? (I jest. L.A. is great if you want…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Are consoles killing PC sales? Here are some fun Apple keynote mashups. Using fancy garments to block airport scanners is a surefire way to get a pat down. I always…
Books For The Politically Alienated
The founding editor of Bookslut offers an eclectic selection of books that might help us confront our own deeply American sense of political alienation. One of them I especially want…
Gatsby in 3-D
“Blood will spew out and coat the screen in the spectacular drunk scene that ends with Myrtle getting punched in the nose. Vampire Weekend will score the film for full…
Voluntary and Involuntary
Jean-Michel Folon’s illustrations of “L’acte reflexe et l’acte volontaire” (Le Livre de Sante, v.8, 1967):
Unpacking Rick Moody
“I watched a lot of monster movies as a kid. In fact, in the period after my parents divorced, which was in 1970 or so, the one thing that I…
Godard vs. (The Concept of) eBooks
Before ebooks even existed filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was wary of them. (via PW)
The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan
Levithan’s rhapsody is just that: an ode to desire written as an account of the traces such desire leaves behind.