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Long Before Lady Gaga
There was Gerald (and Sara) Murphy: Looking comfortably mechanical at the Comte Étienne de Beaumont’s Automotive Ball in 1924. P.s. How awesome is it that there was such a costume…
Random Media Notes
David Carr counts the media industry’s blessings: “After a Year of Ruin, Some Hope.” The Economist rolls out a social networking plan. Condé Nast was hacked: a large swath of…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #15
POWDERED WIGS ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing powdered wigs.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/21-12/27
This week, celebrate Christmas (or don’t), partake in a jingly Reindeer Run Flash Mob, and then celebrate your inner goth kid at The Nightmare After Christmas. Monday 12/21: Celebrate the…
Notable New York, This Week 12/21 – 12/27
This week in New York William Hurt converses at 92Y, Steve Beck performs the Goldberg Variations, Janeane Garofalo and Todd Barry in Comedy Below Canal, Christmas Eve klezmer party, Charlie…
Madmen Across the Water
(Hildebrand chocolate card, c. 1900) I’m in this week’s New Scientist with a brief history of aquatic pedestrianism:
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #16
You got it all wrong, Doug. You can’t use the elevator if there’s a fire. This is an earthquake, so press “L” and stop bitching. We don’t have a lot…
Jared Pappas-Kelley: The Last Book I Loved, Branwell
Douglas A. Martin’s Branwell is a novel that bleeds the line between novel and historical fact. It’s written in a style that traces the tragic story of Branwell Brontë—the lesser…
Morning Coffee
Today is the shortest day of the year, it’s all up from here. The electronic telegraph is going to destroy the newspaper industry. (via Moviecitynews.) Ice caves! The Korean airforce…