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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Random Media Notes
Even more advertisers bail on Glenn Beck. Salon lays off 20% of its editorial staff. Reader’s Digest prepares to file for bankruptcy. “Amish Newspaper Finds Success the Old-Fashioned Way” Time Inc. purchases a house in Detroit to “serve as a…
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Young, Unemployed, and Scottish
“Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter…
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Stylistic Departure
Dan Chaon has written a guest post for Kepler’s Books’ blog, Well-Read Donkey, in which he discusses his love of thrillers, how we look at “genre” fiction versus “literary” fiction, writing his new novel Await Your Reply, and his genealogical…
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The Sketchy History of Times New Roman
“The case that Parker makes about the real origins of Times New Roman stands on narrow foundations. The sole piece of surviving evidence for his version of history is a brass pattern plate bearing a large capital letter B. He…
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The Pixies Meet Jean Luc-Godard
A “video to Pixies’ ‘Wave of Mutilation’ using shots from Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou (Pierrot Goes Wild) from 1965.” (via @MarisaNakasone)
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Morning Coffee
Not really sure what these are, but they sure are pretty. Faces from The Wire. Don’t know what to tweet? You’re welcome. Bicycle “ticketed” for being badass and unique. A brief history of movie flying saucers. Speaking of spaceships, science…
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One Hell of a Gap
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. An updated graph showing the income share of America’s top %0.01 from 1913 through 2007 reveals that income inequality is currently at a “truly amazing” level. Just something to…
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Help Make a Story
“Any bird departing the yard in a north-north-westerly direction could by chance alight on the window-ledge of room 62A of the Florencio Motel, where a recently arrived woman is living out of a suitcase and several single-serving cereal boxes.” A…
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Choose Your Own “Adventure”
In his post “The Limits of Narrative” Mark Pritchard links to Alison Flood’s recent article “How I learned to cheat at reading” in which she writes “It was the Choose Your Own Adventure books that led me astray.” Flood admitted…
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Random Media Notes
The New York Times is going into the wine business in hopes of making some scratch. Glenn Beck continues to lose sponsors. Top US media companies and marketers have created a consortium to challenge Nielsen. Jon Friedman writes “CNN’s Lou…
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Grandmaster of 108
“Born in Greece and raised on West 71st Street in Manhattan, Kessler started skateboarding when he was 11. This was in the 1970s, a time when skateboarding was so alien to New York City that he had to mail-order his…