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Saturday Morning Links
Happy Halloween! Don’t get arrested for going trick-or-treating dressed as Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen. It may be too late to order this as a last-minute Halloween costume, but I’m sure…
Anything So Dangerous As Blank Paper
I’m reading the recently-published retranslation of the Tin Drum, and this passage from the second page made me smile, despite its ominous note:
Morning Coffee
The number of universes out there may depend on the human brain! Sometimes trees fall into your house, and that is ok. I’m certainly not the biggest fan of car…
The Beauty Of Black Sparrow Books
The love of reading and the love of books, while almost always coinciding are still, in essence two different things. If I loved to read as much as I loved…
Morning Coffee
What does the internet cost around the world? Typewriter people. Walt Whitman’s levi’s commercial. Architects Journal looks at the top 5 comic book cities. Also: Paris as star map.
Letters Home
Writing by hand does remind you, primally, of what this crazy thing we do is made of. The careful spilling of ink on paper, the joints and girders of letters.…
Welcome, Tiny Overlords
Perhaps you have a child. Perhaps you want one. Or perhaps, after reading a few articles at Let’s Panic About Babies!, you’ll be shocked barren. Let’s Panic! is The Onion…
Morning Coffee
50 years of beautiful space exploration (be sure to view the large image). Top 5 MFA rankings, rearranged. Just in time for Halloween, My Zombie Pinup: “Where Beauty Eats Brains.”…
Morning Coffee
Kevin Van Aelst uses house-hold objects to illustrate scientific principles. Silly beautiful things. Also: pantone staircase. Are you a woman trying to make it in the criminal underground? You should…
Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 11/1
In New York this week, James Frey and Maira Kalman at the CLMP Spelling Bee, members of The National collaborate with visual artist Matthew Ritchie in The Long Count at…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #8
You probably stood up too fast. All day? Maybe you’ve been standing up too fast all day then. No, we’re not getting one. Because, Doug, those detectors are just a scam…