- The Match Game death watch? And what of the 1970s incarnation of The Hollywood Squares?
- It appears that now would be the time to be paid in Canadian dollars.
- JoAnn Karkos has decided to hold two sex books hostage because she found their content objectionable. She checked them out at the library and refuses to return them. Since Ms. Karkos has seen fit to commit intellectual fascism, I’m wondering if the Lewiston, Maine authorities might be persuaded to garnish Ms. Karkos’s wages until she returns the two books. After all, if Ms. Karkos doesn’t want to play nice with the natural flow of ideas, why should the natural flow of cash earned for work play nice with Ms. Karkos? (via Big Bad Book)
- Fantastic, Keller. The NYTBR loses a page of editorial and the section becomes more contingent on advertising. Never mind that advertising revenue was up 10% from last year.
- Apparently, the age group now most at risk for violent death is now 40 to 49, the new area to find “adolescent risk taking.” Is this selfishness on the part of a growing generation or a societal malady?
- It’s a truly deplorable sign of our times that we now need a grassroots movement to restore habeas corpus.
- Make of this what you will: the New York Times Co. is the most gay-friendly chain. Ordinary people-friendly? Not so much.
- Kassia urges book review crisis-mongers to stop sobbing.
- Australian newspapers might be ahead of their book reviewing counterparts in the States. Can you honestly see any American newspaper reviewing a literary quarterly?
- Some contrarian thoughts on the efforts to save Bukowski’s bungalow.
- Here’s something for stocking fetishists.
- Slash and Axl Rose have not spoken with each other in eleven years.
“Slash and Axl Rose have not spoken with each other in eleven years.”
But then, a LOT of people haven’t spoken with Axl in a while. Or listened to his music.
Lewiston: the armpit of Maine.
Slash is better off without that fucking psycho prick.