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Photo Contest
We’re still accepting submissions for The Adderall Diaries photo contest. Send a picture of yourself that includes The Adderall Diaries (it doesn’t have to be an actual book, though it could be. Or it could be written on your shirt,…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/30 – 12/6
This week in New York Cate Blanchett acts in A Streetcar Named Desire, John Ashbery and Paul Auster read, Mike Daisey monologizes, an n+1 panel discusses feminism and love, Sherman Alexie talks with Rick Moody, Samuel Beckett’s Letters get talked…
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Morning Coffee
Octopus pulp covers. I heart you internet. Expert in alienation, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore subpoenaed in World of Warcraft law suit. Patent for a “fabricated baked potato” (via Alexis Madrigal) Scientists working to extend our lives indefinitely by 2029. More…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Just one for tonight, and I doubt that the site I’m linking to will even notice the hits we send his way–in fact, there’s a strong possibility that everyone who reads this will have already seen the post I’m referencing–but…
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Notable South Florida, 11/28 – 12/4
The Peter Giovenco Art Scavenger Hunt is at Maguire’s Hill 16 in Fort Lauderdale tonight at 8:00 p.m., and it involves searching for pieces of art, which the artists will sign for you afterward. More details here, as well as…
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Science Saturday
Photos of the sternwheeler A. J. Goddard, a ship that sank in the Yukon in 1901, have just been released. From the article: ” The five crewmen’s boots, kicked off in haste as they abandoned ship, were found on the…
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Saturday Morning Links
Winter has finally come to south Florida, by which I mean it’s a nipple-hardening 51 degrees Fahrenheit as I type this and you can discern the locals from the transplants by the size (or lack) of the coats they’re wearing.…
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Weekly Dose of Wonder
Martian Landscapes! In orbit 187 miles up, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is taking incredible photos of the surface of the red planet: Here are dozens more equally entrancing images.
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Isaac’s dumb idea re: The Adderall Diaries
I’m having a contest. Send a picture of yourself that includes The Adderall Diaries (it doesn’t have to be an actual book, though it could be. Or it could be written on your shirt, for example). Send to isaac AT…
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Morning Coffee
Have a good Thanksgiving, we’ll see you on Monday. Famous missing body parts. Alice’s copy of “Through the Looking Glass” is up for auction. LA without traffic is a pretty unsettling thing. Secrets of pinball economics. What was once thought…
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TRUTH SERUM:
SinkingTruth Serum books are 50% OFF until the end of this month. You could wait until later to buy some, but only if you’re filthy rich or irresponsible with money.