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Graham Todd
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Sport v. Human Rights
Eurozine’s Mihir Bose lays out the development of modern athletics in connection with human rights, citing the political and ethical pressures involved in not-so-nice countries hosting major sports events. He writes that the International Olympic Committee, among other major governing…
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Back to the Foto
Irina Wernings’ photography collections, Back to the Future 1 & 2, are hilarious and heartwarming time-machinery: Just look at this! And that!
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Zapruder on San Francisco
Living in San Francisco “can be like being in a relationship with someone who is moody in an exciting and ultimately harmless way”, according to Matthew Zapruder, an SF poet, essayist, and Rumpus contributor. In an interview for Words Without…
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Brain Pickings
Brain Pickings made a New Year’s resolution to read more books and write better. They’ve been posting all kinds of interesting writerly and readerly advice. For half a year they’ve been doing a heck of a job summing up Vonnegut…
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New Digs for the Classics
Publishers, including big guns like Penguin and HarperCollins, have begun to target teen readers by reinventing the cover design of many classic pieces of literature. Like Penguin’s new edition of Romeo and Juliet which features a “Romeo in stubble and…
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Word Games
Two things to spice up your probably already awesome Friday morning at work/playtime/scheming your next perfect crime: 1) Shy Gypsy’s Funny Farm: This is a word association game to the max! It’ll knock your socks off and then tell you they…
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“The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict”
Iran is implementing a new strategy to teach its youth about Salman Rushdie’s fatwa-inducing sin. Iran’s National Foundation of Computer Games (Yep. Really. We have one, too.) asked students three years ago to submit scripts for the game and the…
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Hitchcock’s “Man from the South”
There are lots of things to be happy about today. For instance, Open Culture unearthed Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s dark short story “Man from the South” starring a young Steve McQueen who makes a wager for a convertible.…
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Tourney of Bookshit
HTML Giant‘s Tournament of Bookshit, now six months deep into its hilarious ramble, has just announced its Final 4: Semi #1 – Alcoholism vs. “everybody has a story”, judged by Jennifer L. Knox. Semi #2 – Calling anything you write…
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Why, Zombies, Why?
After the recent resurgence in talk about zombification in the media last week, Kristin Rawls of AlterNet breaks down our country’s obsession with the undead and the possibility it’s our way of coping with times that are becoming more and…
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Nuns on the Run
The Catholic nuns who received a serious talking-to from the Vatican in April for being too outspoken on issues of social justice are planning a bus tour of 9-states this summer: “The sisters plan to use the tour also to…
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Ty Segall & White Fences’ Hair
One of the easiest and most annoying ways to sum anything up is to explain it as a dash of this and a pinch of that, but Ty Segall and White Fence’s collab album Hair is part Neil Young, part…