Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Ain’t no rule says a donkey can’t run for public office (yes there is). This week in terrifying facts: if you are 27 you have never experienced a colder than…
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Speaking of the World We Live In
People in Gaza are dying in it, and an invasion may happen by the end of the weekend. I try never to write about things I would be talking out…
Go Out And Buy Kate Boo’s Book Immediately
The other night, when Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers won the National Book Award for nonfiction, a couple of friends emailed and tweeted at me immediately, because I’d been…
Long Live The Crosshatching
The Guardian offers a podcast of Robert and Aline Crumb in conversation about their new book Drawn Together, a collection of autobiographical comic strips they’ve created together over the past…
Wayne Coyne’s Human Head-Shaped Tumor Radio Show
Next week, on November 24 and 25, at 5pm, KCRW will be broadcasting (and streaming on KCRW.com) a radio show created by our pal Rickard Parks. The show was first…
When editing gets in the way of love
Ah, editors. They sure do know what’s best. McSweeney’s features Jimmy Chen’s take on what Gordon Lish might have done to Raymond Carver’s OkCupid profile. If you want the lowdown…
This Is Why the UK Always Seems So Much Smarter Than the US
The Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year is “omnishambles,” while the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year is…”GIF.” We can’t even agree on how to pronounce GIF! The…
Glenn Beck, Novelist?
Mother Jones reports that Glenn Beck, to the dread/delight of snarky reviewers across the nation, will add another novel to his oeuvre, this one a dystopian sci-fi thriller called Agenda…
Belly Ripley and the Weirdest Parole Terms Ever
We’ve all been there. You go to Harvard, then to law school in Colorado. You own property in central Texas. You get caught trafficking drugs, and the court makes you…
David Foster Wallace as Street Art
“Well,” he said. “If Che Guevara means ‘good looking, punky rebellion,’ then I guess David Foster Wallace means ‘good looking, rebellious bookishness.’” Tom Dibblee at Trop tells of his encounter…
Google is a poet. Does it know it?
Started on November 4th 2012, Google Poetics is a tumblr dedicated to unveiling the works coauthored by the world in Google’s search box. For example, when you begin to type “i…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The phrase “most distant galaxy ever” is a pretty good one. On the biodiversity of belly buttons. I hope you guys have been following this Denver UFO news (because it’s…