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Tune of the Day
Artist: Marvin Gaye Song: “What’s Going On / What’s Happening Brother” Marvin Gaye would have turned 71 today.
“H-U-S-T-L-E-R, Hustler.”
“2. ‘Fuck Armageddon…This is Hell’ by Bad Religion “Jehovah’s Witnesses believe God is killing over 7 billion people at any second who aren’t JWs. I actually believed in it when…
Amazon Is on the eRopes
“Publishers have emerged victorious in the e-book pricing war with Amazon. The world’s largest online retailer has conceded to the demands of three major publishing houses and will cease heavily…
Zoe Kazan: Girl Exploding
After The Exploding Girl’s premiere at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Zoe Kazan’s career has skyrocketed. The public unveiling of The Exploding Girl is well underway, perhaps to coincide with…
National Poetry Month: Day 2. “On Language” by Xochiquetzal Candelaria
On Language A blue pail left floating washes up on the pitted rocky shore, wedges between boulders dark as prehistory, a place the utterance goes it alone.
Morning Coffee
Friday is here at last, so we should probably all watch this chicken playing piano. Sorry. The electric bike of the future! Ham the Chimp has some serial killer photography…
Sassy Gay Friend: Juliet
Things would’ve gone better for Juliet if only she’d had a Sassy Gay Friend.
An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #3
Betty Anne May, Age 80 Truth or Consequences, New Mexico “That man could turn me on by touching my little fingernail.”
Staging A Beautiful Apocalypse
Today is the birthday of one of my very favorite living writers, Samuel R. Delany. (I spoke once here before about how I share with Junot Diaz an abiding love…
Book Cover Missed Connections
“Such encounters are becoming increasingly difficult. With a growing number of people turning to Kindles and other electronic readers, and with the Apple iPad arriving on Saturday, it is not…