Morning Coffee
Some times you don’t have to try and sugar coat these things. Department of this-world-is-totally-terrifying-and-awesome: Peru battles rabid vampire bats. Look, lets be totally honest here, conceptual electricity pylons is…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The great MFA usefulness debate continues with a piece by Lev Raphael. (Here’s my contribution if you’re interested.) Barbara Jane Reyes gives Reginald Dwayne Betts’ book four of five stars.…
Discovering Daytrotter
I can’t say I agree with the premise that it’s more difficult to discover new and interesting music, but I can promise you I’ll be spending some time on Daytrotter.…
Science Saturday
What goes into the formation of an icicle? Arguing can be good for you, apparently. Tried to see the Perseids meteor shower on Thursday night, but down here light pollution…
Saturday Morning Links
It’s my little sister’s 40th birthday today. I doubt she’ll thank me for mentioning that here. HTMLGIANT jumps on the book club wagon (and we’re glad to have them). Their…
September’s Monthly Rumpus: Where’s Steve?
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: Where’s Steve? Click here to buy tickets! On September 13th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. 7pm. Featuring authors Creston Lea, Katie Crouch,…
Morning Coffee
Just another reason to love Japan: Kyoto’s Iwatayama Monkey Park. The sweetest montage video you’ll see all day. Pretty darn fantastic dirty car art. (via Flavorwire) Ok, this video is…
The Latest on Prop 8
The stay is lifted, sort of. Judge Vaughn Walker decided today that same-sex marriages can resume in California on August 18. You can read the final stay order here. Why…
Remembering Tony Judt
Tony Judt, the British historian and social critic, died last Friday at 62 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Although it left him nearly…
Morning Coffee
America: home of jet busses. My love of old books may not be as innocent as I’d assumed. Everyone loves a good 19th century panorama. Giant frozen lake art huzzah!…
Chats With Random Men #1: Emre
This week we kick off a new blog where Brooklyn-based singer/writer Alina Simone teaches us how to use the Internet for its penultimate purpose: chatting with random men. Beginning with…