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This is a bit like a schlocky version of Michael Apted’s Up movies. (For earlier clip, see this.)
Year / 2007
Trent Reznor Sets Precedent?
Listen to the new NIN album for free. (via MeFi)
[UPDATE: Okay, so I’m seven songs in and it’s not bad (I like “Hyperpower!” and “The Good Soldier”). “Capital G,” however, is the silliest Nine Inch Nails song of all time. Someone should tell Trent to stay out of politics. He’s better crooning and wailing in melodramatic angst, as if tied up at some BDSM sex party.]
Jason Fortuny Was Just the Tip of the Iceberg
KING 5: “Someone with cruel intentions placed a fake ad on Craigslist, inviting people to take whatever they wanted for free from a Tacoma home. Homeowner Laurie Raye says there’s little left now of the house. The outside of the home is trashed, the inside is nearly gutted and covered in graffiti. Raye says she is devastated. ‘I was attached to this home because it used to be my mom’s,’ says Raye.”
Roundup
- Podcasts coming. Hang in there, peeps. I’m juggling as fast as I can and Mr. Segundo is being unruly.
- Who are the new literary slanderers?
- John Freeman has uncovered a strange conspiracy: Granta’s Best Young American Novelists not only live in close proximity, but two live in the same building. Of course, I’ll be revealing my own of Best Writers in the World very soon, confining my longlist to writers who live within a six-block radius. (via TEV)
- Lippmann gets love from Maslin.
- RIP Michael Dibdin.
- C. Max Magee breaks down the IMPAC shortlist.
- Persona Non Data uncovers Borders’ shenanigans.
- Irvine Welsh and Danny Boyle: together again? (via Jeff)
- A tribute sneaker for Joy Division. (via Quiddity)
- The Most Hated Family in America.
- The 18 greatest TV drinkeries (via Largehearted Boy)
- Now here’s something you’ll never see from Tanenhaus: the Telegraph has two different reviews of Toby Litt’s Hospital running on the same day. I’d love to see more American newspapers adopt comparative review coverage like this. Alas, there are only so many column inches to go around.
- Joan of Arc’s relics are a forgery! (via Jenny D)
- Bloomberg: “Barnes & Noble Inc., the world’s largest book retailer, said an internal investigation found `numerous instances” of improperly dated stock options in the past 10 years that may have boosted the grants’ value by $45.5 million.”
- Another day, another Lethem interview.
Forget McEwan and Company. The Scientists Are the Real Swindlers!
New Scientist: “Eloquent language has never been the strong point of academic papers, so it’s somewhat ironic that some scientists are lifting clever turns of phrase and even whole paragraphs from other published papers in a bid to sound more articulate.”