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Animals That Do Exist
I like how one of these incredible animals that actually do exist is just a really huge cat. Some other animals that DO exist? More cats! But the real payoff is the weird scrolling message at the end: WE’RE ALL…
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Mexico May Be Having A Tough Year
With the Grand Guignol that is the drug-fueled civil war gripping the country. The LA Times, trying to summon the glory of its former self as a top notch international paper, is covering its backyard well, with timelines, indexes, interactive…
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Health Care Links
“I still believe we can do great things.” Obama’s health care speech. Senator Ted Kennedy’s letter to Obama about health care (delivered after Kennedy’s death): ‘At stake is the character of our country.’ Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who shouted out…
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The Rumpus Interview with MC Lars
I was taken with the lyrics, the energy, and pure joy of the performance.
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Morning Coffee
Have you been trying to find someone to date who shares your love of Sean Hannity? Despite all of our advances in technology, sometimes pigeons are the way to go. Department of questionable science: Scientists levitate mice using magnetic fields.…
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Nash on Books as a Commodity
“We tend to view history in terms of one age succeeding another, the greater vanquishing the lesser, or the tawdry always winning out over the elevated. “The reality, Striphas demonstrates, is that we’re a populist capitalist democracy, a world where…
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Mark Bowden Battles The Bloggers
The esteemed journalist Mark Bowden is back with another thought-provoking article on the digital media revolution. It is at once deeply reported, crisply written — and strangely myopic in its conclusions.
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Harvey Pekar Gets Online
Harvey Pekar of American Splendor fame has teamed up with Tara Seibel, Joseph Remnant, Rick Parker, and Sean Pryor to create his first webcomic over at SMITH. The Pekar Project will have new stories every other week, along with “interviews,…
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A Quick Look at the Google Book Search Settlement
US district court judge Denny Chin will be ruling in a case on how we access printed books in the future. Who’s in the middle of a bid for our literary heritage? Google, of course.
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Free Nog
Lit Drift is a new blog dedicated to “the art and craft of fiction in the 21st century.” Along with articles they have short stories, daily creative prompts (I really like this concept), and a weekly free book giveaway. The…
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Sympathy for These Devils
Drug addicts, pimps, whores, misogynists, hoodlums… all the usual suspects inhabit the stories in Irvine Welsh’s new collection.