2011
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
A hedge-fund manager predicts the 2008 financial meltdown, but adds little to our understanding—or our sympathy.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in birdmen. An update of sorts from yesterday: seriously dudes, what is going on in Arkansas? Hong Kong robotic chicken art (a theme in emerging). “Welcome to the empire of imaginary cities.” Finally: this little thing was born and…
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FUNNY WOMEN #41: W4M ISO Wealthy Patron of the Arts
A hearty bonjour and aloha to all you lovers of arts & letters, I may be old-fashioned, but I prefer not to keep a day job when the winsome muse of words calls to me, so I will be seeking…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/3-1/9
This week in San Francisco, catch a variety of monthly events in the new year: Feast of Words, Craft Bar with Etsy Labs, and San Francisco Bike Party. Monday 1/3: See some funny queers at QComedy‘s first show of the…
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Something Small and Beautiful
The UK’s Guardian runs a Poem of the Week. This week it’s ‘My Grandmother’s Opal’ by Grevel Lindop. The accompanying article is a thoughtful discussion of the piece and of poetry’s appropriateness as a “memorial genre.” Both poem and article…
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Fran Recommends (From 1997)
Martin Scorcese’s HBO documentary Public Speaking is about the writer Fran Lebowitz and, judging by the trailer and reviews, it consists mostly of Scorcese filming Lebowitz while she talks, which might be her true métier. If you’ve seen Lebowitz interviewed,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #68
THE ABANDONED DODGE OMNI BEHIND THE ABANDONED BOWLING ALLEY ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the abandoned Dodge Omni behind the abandoned bowling alley.
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Apple support company sues customer for complaining. China wants to be a leader in innovation. One strategy: Trying to drastically increase the number of patents it holds. Goldman Sachs just put a lot of money into facebook. Smartphones are racing…
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I Am In an Other World
All images from Le Livre de Sante by Joseph Handler (Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1967):
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Making a Case for Criticism
Six critics at The New York Times “explain the importance of their work.” (via TheBookBench)