A Tale from the Trenches
Today the Awl published a long essay by Richard Morgan about his seven years as a freelancer, which I read this afternoon. It’s a worthwhile if sobering read, and really…
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A View of the Long Form
Kevin Kelly recently published a review of the journalism website Long Form, which seeks to promote long-form journalism by making it easier to find and read articles online or on…
FUNNY WOMEN #30: My Four Relationships
The way you’re looking at me tonight, I know you’re ready to take this to the next level.
Morning Coffee.
New findings in a long term monkey annoyance study (scientists are amazing). Flavorwire has your post-apocalyptic photography for the day. The census of marine life. I’m really sorry about all…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/2-8/8
This week, Quiet Lightning! First Tuesday: TechnoCraft @ YBCA, and art, art, art! In North Beach @ DoublePunch, Western Addition @ Big Umbrella, and in the Haight at the Summer…
The August Monthly Rumpus: Hot Nights
Click here to buy tickets! Less than one week away, on August 9th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. 7pm. Featuring authors Antonia Crane, Matthew Zapruder, Victor…
Down by the River Festival, Berlin
Techno usually reigns at Bar 25’s sprawling riverside club, but last weekend at Berlin’s second annual Down By the River Festival folk music held sway. The festival brought more than…
Notable New York, This Week 8/2 – 8/8
This week in New York Jennifer Vanderbes Feasts, David Carter for Gay Rights, Peter Hedges and Jonathan Tropper shows us how to bring black and white to color, Geoffrey O’Brien…
Morning Coffee
Canada has some new sea creatures too. The Horseshoe Shrimp on the other hand is very very old. You can now read Howard Zinn’s FBI file, which is sort of…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Jessica Smith wrote a post about the incivility in the comment stream at Ron Silliman’s blog, and in comment streams in general. Silliman has since turned off his comments, and…
“The lust is men’s; the bodies are women’s”
Jezebel takes apart the results of a survey conducted by a Christian website. The subject of the survey is modesty, and the responses vary from the odd to the terrifying,…
Bill Murray: Anti-Christ
Stephenson Billings, a writer for the satirical site Christwire, makes the case for boycotting Bill Murray in order to have a better America. “What this man symbolizes is far more…