Humor, Interrupted
Here on the Internets, we know narrative digression all too well as the “hyperlink.” Those of us who are accustomed to, and indeed savor, the buds of info that bloom…
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Story Time!
Sometimes you just want to come home from your haircut, curl up with Judy, and sit in the last sunshine of the day reading a good short story, a story…
If The Real World Was Like Grand Theft Auto It Would Look Like This
This is a real picture. I encourage clicking to enlarge for full effect. With the little compass and map and everything? The Smoking Gun has discovered that what Google Street…
At the Intersection of Football and Porn
By now everybody has heard that last night football fans in Tuscon got thirty free seconds of Jenna Jameson doing what she’s famous for in a mistake that was the…
Everything Reminds Me of Everything
About two weeks after I leave Costa Rica, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake will ravage an area about twenty miles outside the capital.
FUNNY AMERICA: The School for Scandal, Version 2.1
A politician making lemonade after being pelted by a bushel of media chucked lemons is as familiar as red yarn on the handle of a black bag on the luggage…
Poetic Lives Online
Mark Scroggins of Culture Industry spent last weekend Zukofsky-ing in Sussex, and has both a rundown and photos. Jeff Hilson provides further photographic commentary. Odali$qued provides some notes toward a…
Why You Should Not Be Afraid to Read “Little Women”
If anyone could be said to have really written in a garret, alone and oblivious, it is Louisa May Alcott.
Best of Shouts & Murmurs (from the past year or so)
The Shouts & Murmurs section of the New Yorker is reliably witty, wry, and short. For some, it is the pre-game to reading the magazine, and for others, the best…
Different Sorts of Rubbish: Super Bowl Edition
George Orwell would not have liked the Super Bowl. In his 1945 essay “The Sporting Spirit” he writes, “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound…
BAD MOMMY BLOG: Princesses, part I
disney, princess, writing, outliers, malcolm gladwell, children's books, bitches
Last Week in the New Yorker: a Link List and Review
THE TALK OF THE TOWN TRANSITIONING by Hendrik Hertzberg You can always count on Hendrick Hertzberg to tell you what your new political stance is; more than that, he makes your…