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  • Brian Spears
  • October 31, 2009
Our managing editor, Isaac Fitzgerald, is a MUNI hero for interfering in a bus fight. I give him special props for not allowing the fight to escalate even after being…
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Saturday Morning Links

  • Brian Spears
  • October 31, 2009
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…
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Anything So Dangerous As Blank Paper

  • Jeremy Hatch
  • October 30, 2009
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:
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Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • October 30, 2009
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…
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The Beauty Of Black Sparrow Books

  • Michael Berger
  • October 29, 2009
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…
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Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • October 29, 2009
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.
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Letters Home

  • Kevin Smokler
  • October 29, 2009
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.…
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Welcome, Tiny Overlords

  • Julie Greicius
  • October 28, 2009
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…
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Morning Coffee

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • October 28, 2009
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.”…
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Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • October 27, 2009
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…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 11/1

  • Rozalia Jovanovic
  • October 26, 2009
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…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #8

  • Kyle Kinane
  • October 26, 2009
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…
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