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Brian’s Saturday Morning Links
How y’all are? I don’t know why I’m channeling Justin Wilson this morning, but bear with me and we’ll get through this. Verizon has some local cops in Ohio upset after refusing to turn on a 62 year old man’s…
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The Freak of Araby
Sir Richard Bishop is a lot of things to a lot of people. He’s a gentleman! He’s a post-punk Guitar God! Now the half-Lebanese indie instrumentalist is about to release an expansive little record on Drag City called The Freak…
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The Art of Science 2009
Princeton University’s Art of Science 2009 competition is a collection of 48 works that reflect the theme of “found art.”
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An Oral History of Myself #4: Aaron
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than most people of that age. What’s most interesting about these…
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On Cat Power: It Must be the Colors
When I first started listening to Cat Power’s music, I was still with a man I very much loved. He played music, he was a music man, and for four years, I depended on him for all my music.
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Morning Coffee
Creepy twine sculptures and potato portraits. Happy memorial day weekend. Minimalist architectural pornography. House of Diffusion. If we here at the Morning Coffee were a single issue voter, that issue would probably be urban planning/public transportation. Which is why we…
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The Bard in the Basement
Today marks the 400th anniversary of the release, by publisher Thomas Thorpe, of Shakespeare’s sonnets. A new book by Clinton Heylin, called So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, questions whether the marvelously crafted poems…
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Nordic Track
My friend Margaret has some good ideas, like DJing a monthly night of Northern indie pop. She might call it Nordic Track. That’s a perfect name, indicating how we would skate to Jens and Beyond. Maybe it will happen someday.…
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The Solipsist and the Internet (a review of Helprin’s Digital Barbarism)
Exactly two years ago today, the New York Times published an op-ed about copyright by a novelist.
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A Faithful Grope in the Dark
Are marketing departments running the major publishing houses? Do editors and agents know what they’re doing? Are small presses the future of literature? Is everything a crapshoot? What’s a first-time novelist to do?
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The Forgotten Movie Screens of Broward County
University Cinema 4 This four-screen theater, in a small strip shopping center at the corner of Pines Boulevard and University Drive, was where Mom and Dad took us to see Kramer vs. Kramer one night during Christmas vacation in 1979.
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“On Some Early Modern Artifacts” by Zach Savich
The line you know best / Represents sadness. / That is your birthline.