June 2012
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’ve been out of town, but I’m back now and I promise that everything will be ok (thanks to everyone who filled in). Everybody, say hello to the newest (very old) mineral: Panguite. Child mugshots of the 1800s. This Google-image-dictionary…
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“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
Ella Taylor reviews Beasts of the Southern Wild, a film which “racked up a total of four major awards and a storm of press attention” at Sundance and Cannes. It focuses on “Hushpuppy, a motherless bayou waif living on the…
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Erotic Little Women
OR Books will soon publish Fifty Shades of Louisa May: A Memoir of Transcendental Sex, which gives Alcott, who “probably didn’t have much erotica in her life” “a second chance at sex.” “It just hijacks the modern erotica category, throws away the…
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“Heck yes I’m willing to do this, I love peanut butter!”
Have you been searching for a collection of peanut-butter related news to no avail? Look no further: There’s a peanut-butter craving thief on the prowl in Ohio, who comes into a gas station most evenings after midnight and “snatches Reese’s…
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INHERITANCE IN THE AGE OF THE E-BOOK
“Among all the gifts of the electronic age, one of the most paradoxical might be to illuminate something we are beginning to trade away: the particular history, visible and invisible, that can be passed down through the vessel of an…
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FUNNY WOMEN #81: xo, The Intern’s Mom
Gary’s excited to start his week-long internship at Lanson Corp tomorrow! We can’t thank you enough for this opportunity—and for the doors it will open after college.
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Day After Tomorrow
The Tomorrow Magazine team reached their funding goal within five hours of launching a Kickstarter yesterday. Congrats! Tomorrow is continuing to accept donations in order to pay contributors, fund design, travel and web costs, and perhaps be able to go…
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Making Sense of the “Floating Cultural Stew”
Over at the L.A. Times, David Ulin argues that the art of the contemporary essay is “in a renaissance.” He praises the recent essay collections of Tom Bissell and Mark Dery, adding them to the ranks of books like Jonathan…
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Believer Week
Subscriptions to The Believer are $5 off all week long in celebration of their upcoming 2012 music issue. The issue features a free cassette tape (and digital download) curated by Calvin Johnson, and interviews with Lucinda Williams, Mobe, Brian Chippendale,…
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“I WILL NOT MAKE ANY BORING ART”
If you ever wanted to hear the three things John Baldessari thinks every young artist should know, you ought to watch this six-minute film of his life story. And if that’s not enough of a selling point you should watch it…
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Alan Moore, Filmmaker
Alan Moore, author of Watchmen, among many other novels, has announced that he’s in the process of making a series of “occult, noir-flecked” short films called Show Pieces. They’ll premiere in New York in October and be released online through…
