August 2009
19 posts
“You could say he was unkind. You could say I was silly. You could say he was...”
– 1 | Lost Cat | Granta 107 | Magazine | Granta Magazine
“When a video popped up on Monday – depicting seven men in speedos cavorting to...”
– Disney Allows a Gay Miley Cyrus Knock-Off Video to Flourish Online - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com
“Highlights of the day: being mistaken for a boy; being mistaken for being in the...”
– style rookie
“An illeist is someone who refers to himself in the third person, as Richard...”
– mental_floss Blog » 11 Famous Illeists
“Recent tries at the trouble of designing a Sherlock Holmes book cover.”
– Caustic Cover Critic: Various Approaches to the Problem of Sherlock Holmes
“Just because it’s the world’s third largest mosque doesn’t...”
– Coudal Partners
“Hedgehogs - why can’t they just share the hedge?”
– BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Hedgehog joke wins comedy prize
“By “library smut” I am in no way referring to the photo books on native peoples,...”
– Hot Library Smut
“A doctor of philosophy,” she said. “What’re you going to do, open a philosophy...”
– Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school—By Mark Slouka (Harper’s Magazine)
“There is something marvelous in the fact that we barely understand what most of...”
– The Brain: The Dark Matter of the Human Brain | Memory, Emotions, & Decisions | DISCOVER Magazine
“My wife and I are so addicted to “The Wire” that as soon as we were...”
– The Arts Section: Music: Son Lux
“To prepare himself for three rounds with the champ, Plimpton, at the...”
– George Plimpton vs. Archie Moore | TheSweetScience.com Boxing
“Owen is six. He can’t move or speak. For years, I wasn’t sure he...”
– Father/Child Communication - Men’s Health
“The Anarcho-Symbolists are a lost generation, overshadowed by the deep-diving...”
– Hilobrow | Middlebrow is not the solution
“In honor of the NY premiere of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s astonishing film HOUSE,...”
– Outcast Cinema: Japanese cinema blogathon begins!
“The world doesn’t owe me a living. If the world doesn’t want to buy my books,...”
– William T. Vollmann, an Author Without Borders - NYTimes.com
“There is no place where your pursuit of knowledge will be so little obstructed...”
– Stay Home, Young Man - Lapham’s Quarterly
July 2009
17 posts
