Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes you just need to see flying babies. No, you shouldn’t have to give your potential employer your Facebook password. “List of unexplained sounds” is your wikipedia page for the…
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Trayvon Martin
“How did a kid armed with Skittles and an iced tea get gunned down by an overeager neighborhood watch captain? And why didn’t police detain shooter George Zimmerman?” Mother Jones reports.…
Dardenne Brothers Interview
Interview Magazine features Belgian filmmaking brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The conversation revolves around their latest film, The Kid with a Bike. “I don’t think we ever make movies that…
FUNNY WOMEN #77: Penal Codes
Following the trend of female lawmakers submitting bills to regulate men’s health, we decided to do the same. We are three straight, gay, single, married, white, Cuban, non-practicing Jewish women, which…
Fire and Drag
In Padua, Minnesota, firefighters put out a truck fire that broke out before a St. Patrick’s Day parade. And they did it all while dressed in drag. Witness their flame-destroying,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today seems like a good day to talk about bee brains. All you Occupiers out there, try and be as classy as The Pyramid of Capitalism. Over yonder, Keith Haring’s…
Charged Sentences
“It is by fussing with sentences that a character becomes clear to me, that a plot unfolds. To work on them so compulsively, perhaps prematurely, is to see the trees…
A Place for Literary Videos
In response to YouTube’s lack of a literature category, Reddit has created its own “underground” site for literary videos. “Poetry videos, short story videos, live readings, spoken work performance, audiobook…
Notable San Francisco: 3/19-3/25
This week in San Francisco Monday 3/19: Booksmith launches an original release, San Francisco and the Bay Area: the Haight Ashbury Edition. Snacks, readings, and history. 7:30 pm.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Soon air war will be as simple as a thumbs up, yay. . . Let’s all take a look inside Hitler’s LA bunker. This is sort of fascinating, iPads (and…
Lit-Link Round-up
This Sunday, Josip Novakovich gives us an essay on friendship addiction and male friendships. One fun and thought-provoking aspect of this piece is its radical difference in tone from the…
You Can’t Handle the Truth, in More Ways Than One
Perhaps you listened to the recent “This American Life” episode about conditions in the Apple-contractor Foxconn’s factories in Shenzhen. It was voiced by a man named Mike Daisey, who had…