Acts of the Faculty
There’s often a bit of overlap between writers and academia–not as much of one as those of us on the job market would like at times, but it’s there all…
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High & Low Art
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Not to brag or anything
But have you noticed who reads and links to us? Yeah, we’re moving up in the world. Love you too, Andrew. May I call you Andrew?
Saturday Morning Afternoon Links
Some technical troubles this morning, but it looks like we’re up and running again. I take comfort in the fact that while I’ve written some pretty stupid things on my…
Anywhere But L.A.
In stories that range through history, serendipity, speculation, whimsy, and horror, Daniel Olivas chronicles the lives of characters who have loved—and lost—Los Angeles.
FUNNY WOMEN #16: Project Runway
“Then you’ve got Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg. He was handsome too and his eye patch debonair. He was in the German Army High Command, fought under Rommel and did lots…
Jacob Paul: The Last Book I Loved, The Dream of the Poem
The last great book I read was The Dream of the Poem, translated, edited and introduced by Peter Cole. Well, that’s a lie. I should say that it’s the great…
Big Principal Is Watching
I remember when you only had to worry about your locker being searched. In what seems like a scene from his own techno-geek surveillance novel Little Brother (which, as a…
YouTube Art: Scarface: The TV Edit
Oh man, do I loves me some bad dubbing. You know what I’m talking about; when a basic cable channel shows an R rated movie on their station but has…
Dedicated to You but You Weren’t Glistening
Illustrations from the 1979 children’s book Your Name? Robot.
Javier Marias on KCRW’s Bookworm
Allen Ginsberg claimed that his reading voice was an imitation of the voice with which William Blake spoke to him in his visions and dreams. Once you hear Ginsberg read,…