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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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    The First Snow

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Lifter Puller Song: “Let’s Get Incredible”

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    Panorama

    “The challenges were plenty and they were just about all logistical. There’s a reason why newspapers need about 400 people to run them: It’s because there are many, many moving parts to be accounted for.” Flavorwire talks McSweeney’s 33, the…

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    Lignes Verticales, 1960

    An experimental animation by Scottish-born Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren. (via @jrcbriones)

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    Louis C. K. Woulda Raped Hitler

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    “They like my music because I rock.”

    Don’t have anything going on at work today? Wesley Willis’s Joy Rides, a “77-minute 2008 film about the schizophrenic cult musician,” is being shown in its entirety over at Pitchfork. The movie not only includes Willis’s music, but also heaps…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: Maluca Song: “El Tigeraso”

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    Some Days You’re the Van…

    some days you’re the wrecking ball. Update: Laughing Squid is reporting that this accident was staged. That being said, we think the analogy still stands.

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: The Dodos Song: “Longform”

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    Auto-Tune the Ads

    The Gregory Brothers shake it up a little bit.

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    Assisted Discipline

    From a tool as simple as a stopwatch to something called Dr. Wicked’s Write or Die, Meghan Ward has posted a collection of “Gadgets to help you write.”

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    Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint

    In a time of twitter novels and short stories laid out a 140 characters at a time, Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, is going in a different direction. Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint is, as Rombes…

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