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SMALL POTATOES: The Sally Twins
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Science Saturday
Late start today, so no morning links, but here’s some science for you. In the great paper book/e-book debate, some dyslexics have a firm preference for e-books. Scientists in Japan…
National Poetry Month: Day 10. “Gulls at Todd’s Point” by Annie Finch
Gulls at Todd’s Point Shivering, knowing how lines of the tide use seaweed, and sea-drift, and sea-touch (and bone) to etch with, I wait to be marked on the sand
Movies, Briefly: Brute Force (1947)
Brute Force is a robust, testosterone-soaked action picture. It’s about as manly as movies get, and yet it paints such a different picture of masculinity than the one seen in…
FUNNY WOMEN #21: Is That a Rabbit in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Trying to Date Me?
I’m sorry. It may be wrong to judge people based on their ideas and expectations, but I just wouldn’t date a magician.
Rock and Roll
“With most of the shit that I write and put out there, it’s my hope that it gives readers the freedom to be really honest about their obsessions, to talk…
Mud Luscious Bookmark Contest
Have your work published on a bookmark. Mud Luscious Press, publisher of delectable pocket-size chapbooks and novellas from bright young writers, recently announced its bookmark contest. Regular readers know that…
Memories of Ice and Fire
Aydin Aghdashloo is an Iranian painter, author, art critic, art historian, and graphic designer. You can read more about him and view many more paintings at his website. Also see…
Skateboardanimation
“A ton of digital photos, a ton of real life magazines, an hour of recording music.” –Tilles Singer
Hannah Edber: The Last Book I Loved, Asterios Polyp
Art and life seem to intersect at my alarming weakness for the archetypal dissatisfied middle-aged American male. In countless viewings, I’ve watched reverently as Annie Hall’s Alvie Singer mutters and…