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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #11
I think I might be an adrenaline junkie, Doug. Well, sure, there’s still the regular junkie part too. But the meth is only fun now when I’m doing crazy shit like racing cars or running from the cops.
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Morning Coffee
Shockingly not boring: a look inside an English cardboard factory. Children’s books from Poland. WWI-era airplane detection hearing aids. Could the common cold be the trick to avoiding swine flue? (spoiler alert: maybe!) Fact of the day: Japanese barcodes are…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The Rumpus has already mentioned W. S. DiPiero’s essay about walking in San Francisco from the November issue of Poetry, but there are others dealing with the same general idea as well. Kay Ryan on Marin County, Peter Cole on…
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Scroll Down
Every once in a while, I have to remind myself to scroll down the page–it’s easy to get locked in to what’s at the top of the blog, at the top of the review lists, the new original pieces, and…
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Science Saturday
Martian landscapes that will blow your mind. There’s water on the moon, and that has implications for future manned space travel. Unmanned non-lethalwhale hunting looks pretty cool. To protect yourself against the swine flu, catch a cold?. Apparently. Along those…
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Notable South Florida, This Week 11/14-11/20
This weekend in south Florida, all the cultural talk is about the Miami Book Fair, and while it is generally dominated by the same sort of pop culture excrescence one might expect, there are also some really great writers taking…
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Saturday Morning Links
So last Saturday, I woke up 41 years old, hung over, and with a non-responsive computer. Doornail-quality dead. Gray screen, blinking folder with question mark, oh crap I can’t afford a new computer dead. One week, one new hard drive,…
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Women’s News
Tina Fey once said, “I think we can all agree that it’s a great time to be a lady in America, and not just because of that new yogurt that helps you poop. Although, on the serious, thank you for…
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Morning Coffee
Have you seen Big Picture’s photo-essay on Mars? It is the best thing. What does the grammar of Google searches say about us? I am just linking to this article so I can use the phrase “monkey justice.” The great…
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The Journal Of Albion Moonlight
“Carol wants me to write a novel: ‘You’ve met so many interesting people,’ she tells me. Very good, there was a young man and he could never get his hands on enough women. That’s a novel. There was an idiot…
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The Decline Of Hitchens, Again
A long time ago, back when I was basking in over-priced Leftism in Santa Cruz, I gave a gift to my friend: Letters To A Yong Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens. At that time Hitchens was a venom-tongued writer for the…