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On the 1935 invasion of the US by Mexico, Canada, and the Caribbean. (via io9.) Oh, hello human fish. (Note: the ocean is sort of gross.) Thanks to the Internet…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/26-8/1
This week, make your Monday, discover a microhood, Tourettes Without Regrets goes XXX, and The Mission has some more artsy block parties. Monday 7/26: Get yourself to the Fort Mason…
FUNNY WOMEN SHORTS: Email from Lorin Stein
“Last week, the new editor of the Paris Review, Lorin Stein, told The Observer that he and his recently installed poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, were preparing a ‘holy shit’ poetry…
The End of Forgetting? Not Quite
Scott Rosenberg has written a thorough takedown of Jeffrey Rosen’s NYT Magazine piece, “The End of Forgetting.” When I read it yesterday, I felt like there was something amiss about…
Fake Missed Connections, Real Responses
Are you reading Ships that pass yet? “A collection of fake, imagined, and literary missed connections posted to Craigslist and then re-posted here with real and actual responses to fake,…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #39
It’ll just be me and the open sea, Doug. A what? No, no. None of that bullshit. I’m just gonna navigate by the stars like a true explorer. If all…
Notable New York, This Week 7/26 – 8/1
In New York this week Rick Moody kicks off his book tour, BOMB Magazine hosts its Summer Bash at Glasslands, Black Keys perform at Summer Stage, Anderbo.com hosts Anderbo Indoors,…
Morning Coffee
Big Picture reminds you that the sky is pretty rad sometimes. Have you seen Vancouver’s new Douglas Coupland statue? Blissfull Joy and the SATs. Black holes are hella rad yo.…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I really had planned on doing this column ahead of time last week, but Friday night found me under the kitchen sink teaching myself how to unhook a garbage disposal…
Lately on Ted
I like to do these roundups every so often as an excuse for sitting around and watching videos for the better part of an afternoon. Enjoy! Tan Le has developed…
Jeff Bezos Talks About Character
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, gave a fairly pedestrian and tedious commencement address at Princeton earlier this year, which is no crime–commencement addresses are supposed to be pedestrian and tedious unless…