Notable New York, This Week 5/10 – 5/16
This week in New York, Granta’s Sex Party, The Moth Mainstage presents Saints and Sinners, SLEIGH BELLS perform, Emily Gould celebrates her new memoir with a party, Sebastian Junger discusses…
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Morning Coffee
Oh hey, here’s the crazy map of botched police raids you asked me for. “Leaders and their moms.” A lot of dumb people rank the most dangerous cities in the…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Tara Betts found herself attacked by a particularly ignorant political blogger named Debbie Schlussel over her class at UrbanWordNYC. Betts’s response is elegant, measured, and powerful, everything the attack was…
Funny Women Meets Broadsheet
Elissa Bassist, editor/curator of The Rumpus’s Funny Women series (submission guidelines here) is a new contributor to Salon’s Broadsheet. Her first offering is titled “Sleep Your Way to a Book…
Happy Birth Control Pill/Mother’s Day!
Okay, so I’m a day early, but the confluence of these two events is just too good to let pass with commenting. I have to admit, my personal bias is…
Science Saturday
Eyjafjallajökull–remember that?–is erupting again. Wonder what the US space program has in mind? Here’s one look at it. Have you ever wanted to hunt Burmese Pythons? Come to Florida. I…
Saturday Morning Links
Good morning. Let’s see what the tubes have for us today. Over at Harper’s, Mr. Fish adds to the Arizona immigration debate. Mother Jones explores the world of H-2A guest…
Shirley Hazzard and Richard Ford: A Conversation at the PEN World Voices Festival
Last Friday night, for about one hour, Richard Ford asked Shirley Hazzard questions about her life and her writing. It was part of the PEN World Voices Festival. It cost…
Morning Coffee
Roger Ebert recounts meeting Bukowski. The Complete History of the Fallout Shelter sign (via boingboing). Google Chrome vs. Potato. Everybody/nobody wins. Kids get sent home for wearing American flag shirts…
Drinkers Are Smarter, Says Science
In the department of You Can Prove Anything With Science, this statistics-happy chap finds that “the more intelligent, who scored high on a vocabulary test, … drink more than the…
Morning Coffee
The Geocities-izer allows us to “make any webpage look like it was made by a 13 year-old in 1996.” “The reason the parents have done this is because they do…
“I always had a day job.”
“Some people don’t have a day job, and that makes them hustle more and they get on track, but that’s such a risky thing to do. I guess I didn’t…