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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
First things first: 100 ways to spell Qadhafi. (via Gerry Canavan.) Billheads of distinction! There are things in the world I can’t not link to, this history of skeletal drawing is a good example. Japanese posters of the Avant-Garde (hurray!).…
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Cairo: Scenes from a Revolution
“All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people. They should begin with a psychological chapter, one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/28-4/3
This week in San Francisco, VIDA at the Makeout Room, Poetry at the Randall Museum, the April Fool’s Lower Haight Art Walk, and the Switchboard Music Festival. Monday 3/28: Grab a bite and catch Bait & Switch tonight at Yoshi’s…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #80
RIGHT HERE WAITING FOR YOU BY RICHARD MARX ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Right Here Waiting for You by Richard Marx.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is a day filled with robot gulls. Here is some 60s Swedish book design for you. Similarly: Mid-Century Pharmaceuticals. On the logistics of extraterrestrial mountaineering. Also: evidently you can train lefties to think like righties. if that is something…
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Where I Write #4: My Old Wooden Desk
I write at an old cherry wood desk. It’s heavy and difficult to move, scarred, the stain is flaking off, initials etched into the surface. The desk has seen better days but it’s still beautiful.
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Is Writing Therapy?
“Writing for an audience is about narration and structure and voice; it’s about the situation and the story. It’s not about how good or bad things are in your own psyche. It’s not about airing your dirty laundry, and it’s…
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Authors Insulting Bill
“For Bill—You douche bag, you think you can emotionally manipulate me, a very nice person, into insulting you, by appealing to my niceness? Fuck you, Bill. You were right. Fuck you, dude. <3” —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia, in response…
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The Rumpus and Social Networks
Want to keep up with The Rumpus when you’re elsewhere on the internets? I know, you don’t admit to going anywhere else, and we don’t blame you, but if you want to get a taste of The Rumpus somewhere other…
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Science Saturday
A new phase of matter? The study that led to the public pressure that made Craigslist shut down its adult services section is apparently really bad science. The RHIC generates the largest antinucleus ever. A submarine with tank treads. Why…
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Saturday Morning Links
Seemingly out of nowhere, a couple of pieces on The Wire, probably my favorite television show ever. The first is in The Threepenny Review, by W. S. DiPiero, a piece called “Who Shot Snot?” The second, by way of Hannah…