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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I know this isn’t the point, but I can’t stop thinking about how cute these fat monkeys are. Psychedelic Don Quixote illustrations. Abandoned World War 2 bunkers are sort of great sometimes. Let’s talk about Neanderthal fashion. And now for…
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THE BLURB #21: This Is Your Brain—on Books, on Screens
After just five hundred years of movable type and the Enlightenment it begat, we are blinded by how brief our dwelling in the kingdom of print turned out to be.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/21-2/27
This week in San Francisco, RADAR at The Luggage Store, Noise Pop loves Litquake, and John Wesley Harding performs at the launch of Wesley Stace’s new novel. Monday 2/21: Support San Francisco State University’s College of Creative Arts at One…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #75
THE FIGHT I IMAGINED BETWEEN A GIANT MAN AND A REGULAR-SIZED MAN ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the fight I imagined between a giant…
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Ted Wilson on the Air
Unfortunately I, Ted Wilson, spent my New Year’s in jail. Always one to make the best of things, I spent my time writing haikus about my circumstance and posted them to Twitter, where I am a member. Last week my…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/21-2/27
This week in New York Joyce Carol Oates reads at the 92nd Street Y, a reading from the first book about WikiLeaks, the How I Learned Series presents readings on therapy, the Festival of New French Writing, the Gender Outlaws…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s a Monday, so here is a baby armadillo for you. Google Street Art is a pretty cool thing I think. Buffon’s Beasts (is great). This week is twitter visual graphs: charting the Egyptian revolution. Good (space) news everybody, maybe…
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SXSW: Lack of Female Comedians
Seems as though SXSW is also experiencing a public look into gender disparity, like the literary world has recently been doing since the VIDA Count was released (nice round-up by Brian Spears here). Comedy fans were not pleased by the…
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How Much Do Public Workers Earn?
Public worker unions are under attack across the nation, most notably in Wisconsin, where a group of Democratic State Senators have fled the state to stop a bill from being passed which would gut the ability of unions to bargain…
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Science Saturday
For the first time in history, we can see the sun in 3-d. Fish in the Hudson River can now store toxins in their fat. Good for them, not so much for the food chain. More evidence for the theory…
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Saturday Morning Links
Brought to you this week on an iPad, since my laptop is undergoing hard drive replacement surgery. We are hopeful for a swift recovery. Want to know what the real story is behind the Wisconsin union-busting movement? Ezra Klein has…