Andrew Orvedahl Show
Andrew Orvedahl, comedian, Rumpus friend, and creator of The Narrators, is performing on Friday and Saturday at Punch Line San Francisco. You can purchase tickets here.
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
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!
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,…
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…
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…
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!…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Long story short, there are too many wannabe bad-ass people in the world. Yes, I will link to this story about robot soccer. For the children. Running from the Elephant,…
Letter Party Tonight
We’re stuffing envelopes with Letters to Everyone this evening. If you’re in San Francisco, and in the mood to spend some time with us, come by the Latin American Club…
“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…
“This is where we must dig”
At The Millions, Jessica Gross reviews Tiny Beautiful Things, Cheryl Strayed’s forthcoming collection of Dear Sugar columns. “Sugar forces us to swallow sometimes painful realizations about what we want, who…
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…
Today in the Supreme Court
Unless you’ve been away from a news source all day, you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, as constitutional by a…