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Isaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.
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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Japandroids Song: “Young Hearts Spark Fire”

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    iComics

    “While news and book publishing are already in the throes of a digital revolution, comic books haven’t been as affected. The color, vertical format of comics doesn’t translate well to a horizontal computer screen, and Amazon’s Kindle can only handle…

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    Morning Coffee

    Childhood Trauma Soap: “Maybe if you smelled good your parents would love you.” Speaking of parents, is respect for elders universal in primates? (My completely unscientific answer? Not in punk primates!) Really fun Chinese snow sculptures. (via MeFi) We’re not…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: The Clientele Song: “Bookshop Casanova”

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    MC Lars

    Post-punk laptop rap star MC Lars has been described as “the laptop MC who’s ‘Straight Outta Stanford’” by Kurt Loder, and has tracks like “Rapbeth” and “Hey There Ophelia” that reference Shakespeare (not to mention “Ahab” and “Mr. Raven,” which…

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    A Cold Business

    The New York Times has caught clothing giant H & M (and, to a lesser extent, Wal-Mart) in the act of literally cutting and dumping unsold clothing instead of donating the garments to desperate charities. “It is winter. A third…

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    Morning Coffee

    Going shopping for bananas in Spain? Thanks to an error by drug smugglers, you might end up with a whole lotta cocaine. Ice more your thing? Check out these photos from the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Speaking…

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    Greenscreen Grandmas

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    Internal

    Not that we’re counting but… Today Gawker called us one of their “favorite literary sites.” Yesterday Rex Sorgatz at Fimoculous put us at #25 in his “30 Best Blogs of 2009.” And, as some of you may remember, Salon.com named…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Sunset Rubdown Song:  “Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!”

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    Morning Coffee

    Like wasting time and looking at photos? Meet Tag Galaxy, “the Internet crack of the moment.” Not silly enough? Try Hats of Meat on for size. Enough funny, time for science: we’ve discovered a “giant planet with the density of…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Internet Forever Song: “Happy New Year”

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