FUNNY WOMEN #6: Finally! A Job That Requires My Skill Set
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One Tongue?
In John McWhorter’s World Affairs article “The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English,” he asks if it would be “inherently evil if there were not 6,000 languages spoken but one?”
Morning Coffee
National Geographic on robotic animals. Also: 10 Tons make model planets, giant squids, dinosaurs, and more! Also Also: check out these pictures of a sperm whale eating a giant squid.…
RECESSION SEX WORKERS #5: The Rise and Fall of JT
If I’ve learned anything from interviewing JT, it’s that “no one ends up in the adult industry by accident” and “when you fall, you have to land somewhere.”
Leone’s Dollars Trilogy Available Free on Hulu
Through the end of November, Hulu is hosting Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy for free viewing: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and — the greatest, obviously —…
Akashic Press Has A New Blog
“Living in Brooklyn (as 3/4 of the Akashic Staff does), discussions about Irony usually in end hipster-bashing sessions. Williamsburg is rendered as a mecca of self-posturing, detachment and apathy. It’s…
Science Fiction Predicts The Present
“Science fiction writers don’t predict the future (except accidentally), but if they’re very good, they may manage to predict the present. Mary Shelley wasn’t worried about reanimated corpses stalking Europe, but…
1989: Was It Really The End Of History?
“The basic point — that liberal democracy is the final form of government — is still basically right. Obviously there are alternatives out there, like the Islamic Republic of Iran…
Hate to Be Alone
The Rumpus and Wholphin present: Hate To Be Alone With Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted, Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, Melanie Gideon, author of The…