Morning Coffee
Sherman Alexie has written you a poem about My Sharona. (via GerryCanavan.) WFMU’s best show takes you through the darker side of power pop (mp3). The always reliable New Scientist…
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“True to my heart and true to art.”
“But here now was Patti Smith: a gangly, atonal, and androgynous punk poet wailing about her lack of faith in Jesus, and boys humping parking meters. Patti turned my Top…
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Dreams, vignettes, hypotheticals, and poetry lay out alternate versions of Western literature’s founding epic.
A Big Step in France
“France has become the first country in the world to remove gender identity disorder, also known as transsexualism, from its list of officially recognized mental illnesses.” While the issue is…
Gilliam Hearts Bulgakov
“Why do I keep running away from Mikhail Bulgakov? I’ve been on the run for years now. From the first time I was encouraged to read The Master and Margarita,…
Movies, Briefly: Vanishing Point (1971)
I’m not a big fan of the moment early in the film where Barry Newman’s Kowalski drives past himself in a different car and disappears into thin air (“Holy crap!…
245 Rules for Writing Fiction
In anticipation of Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, which comes out next month, The Guardian has put together a comprehensive list of rules for writing by writers like Margaret…
Morning Coffee
Time photo-essay on zebra-relocation. They have to be relocated somehow you know? Liechetenstein! (I don’t know why I linked to this either) We here at M.C. headquarters are big fans…
Pedigree Pigeons
“It seemed like a pastime of a fairy-tale New York that had long since disappeared. But, with a little research, I realized a thriving community of pigeon-keepers still existed in…