FADE IN: EXT. WASHINGTON D.C. — DAY Several ENSLAVED EX-GOVERNMENT WORKERS, all of them in their nineties, are led by ROMAN CENTURIONS into the Washington…
Postings are going to be light and then heavy. But whatever the format and timing, they will be comprehensive on the other side. Either way,…
How to make a lightsaber dildo The Daily Dancer: “I am Daily Dancer, a computer geek who loves to dance! Every weekday morning, you can…
Sarah is interviewed by Kacey Kowars. Sarah talks about the history of her blog, how she reads and selects content, her new day job, inter…
King Fahd is dead. This guy’s next in line. Crown Prince Abdullah is mostly friendly, but unlike Fahd, Abdullah didn’t like American involvement in the…
[Above: Arnold using taxpayers' money to stage a scene and play a guy performing construction.] [Below: Arnold using Hollywood money to stage a scene and…
Scott points to this disturbing article. The California State Assembly has decided to ban school districts from purchasing textbooks longer than 200 pages. The bill…
Michiko: “It’s a book as hip and intermittently tender as Dave Eggers’s ‘Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,’ as gripping and overstuffed as David Foster Wallace’s…
While I believe it’s still possible to do some of these things, I still wish to respond to Mr. Teachout’s recent item. Here are ten…
Jimmy Beck has the scoop on Charles Baxter. He writes: When asked what he was working on, he said he spent two years on a…
METHODOLOGY: On May 26, 2005, during lunch hour, surveyor Edward Champion asked various people in the Embarcadero Center (a multi-block shopping center in San Francisco’s…
We’ve finally discovered that we can actually view the Internet on our cell phone and that it actually loads fairly fast (under the circumstances) and…
The website AAUGH has unearthed how Amazon adds those annoying image tags (“40% Off!”) to their cover images. It’s all in the tags. (via )MeFi)
In a heated post, Scott takes audiobooks to task, pointing out that the audio book experience ain’t tantamount to reading. “Listen Jim,” writes Scott, “and…
At the LBC site, editor Reagan Arthur weighs in on Case Histories. Arthur confesses her partiality, but does remark that Case Histories is the first…
Seconds after throwing the Birnbaum Signal into the sky, our literary superhero respodned by interviewing Courtney Angela Brkic and Kevin Guilfoile. Commissioner Gordon’s services are…
Today at The Elegant Variation, during the course of Kevin Smokler’s appearance via the Virtual Book Tour, there was a heated though civilized thread about…
While reading The Rainbow Stories, a book that I’ve been greatly enjoying (if kicking around with skinheads, drug addicts and terrorists can be “enjoyed”), I’ve…
For those who can’t wait for the Pynchon Bookforum issue (which we are salivating for as readily as the Learned English Dog), as Maud points…
American Rhetoric has listed the top 100 speeches of all time. The text is available for all speeches. But what’s particularly amazing is that audio…
I’ve sent close to 150 emails tonight and I’m still backed up. If you sent me an email before May 5 about something, give me…
Pop Matters has kicked off a new column entitled “Bad Librarian.” The column is written by Erik Wennermark, a man who may or may not…
A blogger, merely worrying about his Japanese report, posted an eerie entry just before he was murdered. Police used it to find the killer. Eerie…
Neil Gaiman provides the link for a Paypal fund for the noted science fiction satirist Robert Sheckley. Sheckley, as reported here not too long ago,…
To whit: Phil at Collected Miscellany asks whether reading choices are related to the season. Anthony Miller looks into the “summer reading” semantics. The Columbus…
Said Laurie Anderson: “She tells a story about asking Thomas Pynchon whether she could turn his novel Gravity’s Rainbow into an opera. He said yes,…
If you’re like me, you avoid CliffsNotes with a passion and go out of your way to remember pedantic book details that the slackers salivating…
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