January 2012
28 posts
“At Last has become arguably the most popular song in the U.S. for weddings,...”
– From Kenyon Farrow’s insightful Political Obituary of Etta James, Colorlines, 1/24/12 (via racialicious)
David Sedaris
Do you see a lot of teenagers at your shows?
Yeah, I do, and I always have gifts for them because I’m always so honored that they come. If I run out of gifts, I give them money. A couple of years ago, I gave condoms to teenagers because I wanted something that was light and easy to pack. Perfect, right? And then I got a letter from a woman in Chicago who said, “I came with my daughter to...
Marilyn Monroe's belongings
“Marilyn’s estate was a bunch of poignant schlock. The auction raised more than $13 million, but not because of any intrinsic value in the numbered lots. There were no Renoirs or Picassos. Her knickknacks were pedestrian. Her cookware was greasy. Her spatulas were bent. Even her Golden Globe was broken.
The majority of her clothing showed surprising wear and tear. She had worn...
nick cave's notebooks
As a diehard Nick Cave fan, Buchanan found particular delight in examining his handwritten journals from his Berlin years, 1982-88, held in ”flat grey archival boxes” at Melbourne’s Arts Centre. ”Performing arts material is notoriously ephemeral and rarely survives the rigours of the road,” Buchanan explains. But Cave, who began his first novel while living in...
Kristen Bell on dressing up as Katniss →
Fireland: The goon pats me down and finds the... →
Jesus Christ.
fireland:
The goon pats me down and finds the oyster knife taped to my coccyx. “Thought you said you was unarmed,” he says, voice like a broken down retard factory.
“I said that because I didn’t want you to know I had a knife,” I say. “In case I needed to stab you?”
“I thought we was friends.”
“We are…
December 2011
22 posts
Rookie: Watching Freaks and Geeks with my 93... →
rookiemag:
Episode 7, “Girlfriends and Boyfriends”
Her: (Re: theme song) What the heck is this?
Me: School pictures!
Her: Well it’s stupid! Who’s taking their picture?
Me: The photographer!
Her: (Shakes head) Terrible.
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(Re: credits) “Who’s ‘Patty Lin’? Is she popular in school? Or is she an old…
Sexual Jungle Cat
This is a nice story. I would not hate if you made it a TV show.
kfan:
I have a story up at Necessary Fiction. Kathy Fish asked me to send her something with the theme “WILD”. I sent her a story called David Hasselhoff’s Game of Sexual Jungle Cat. This is an edited/updated/reworked version of a story I originally posted on another blog.
Anyways happy holidays.
Harriet the Hell-Raising Heroine →
Guys. It is weird that I love this book, right? Given that none of this pertains to me?
nyrbclassics:
From NPR’s All Things Considered:
Next we come to what may be the single most detestable female character ever created: Harriet, the protagonist of Iris Owens’ 1973 novel After Claude. She is arrogant yet horribly insecure; dismissive and contemptuous, yet needy and pathetic. She is...
Madras Press
Madras Press is readying their third series of small books, and one of them is a Kelly Link story!
There’s some great work in this series, including new stories of Oz by Gregory Maguire, a choose-your-own-adventure story by Kevin Brockmeier, a novella by Hannah Abrams, and an illustrated edition of Kelly Link’s ‘Stone Animals.’
It seems like Laura Miller from Salon is...
Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death) on her World... →
I totally didn’t know that the statuette was Lovecraft’s head, nor did I know what a huge racist he was.
Excited to read more Helen Oyeyemi
I really enjoyed Helen Oyeyemi’s totally spooky White Is for Witching, a contemporary gothic horror story where supernatural terror and racist terror overlap.
Excerpts from an interview Oyeyemi did with fictionwritersreview.com:
I’d rather write a heart-warming tear-jerker or romance or something just nice, but it doesn’t work. These two things just keep coming out, the immigrant thing...
small beer damages
Gavin at Small Beer Press on new way of dealing with too-damaged books:
Occasionally the returns we get from our distributor … are in such bad condition that we can’t even give them away. (We mail returned copies in good condition out to various groups—including the OWS library!—and sell them here.) … We had this box of nearly destroyed books which was beginning to spill ...
