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Fugs and Pieces, December 2, 2011
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Just what I needed on this darkening Friday afternoon on a day it didn't get above freezing. *eats some Smartfood and in lieu of looking out the window, turns on her SAD lamp* Beezy Wow, the way that Clooney piece talks about women is horrible.
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Basketball star Cilk McSweeney launches new book
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Fulfilling a life-long dream to play professional basketball has opened doors for Cilk McSweeney to shoot commercials alongside NBA superstars LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, appear in two feature films and become an entrepreneur. McSweeney, a former
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Zero-calorie pleasures: McSweeney's children's imprint takes over a gallery
San Fernando :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Mixed with the verbaciousness (I made up that word for the occasion) of McSweeney's, this is prime post-Thanksgiving eye candy. Y'know, when you're too food-hungover to delve overmuch in character and plot. This is why we saved the above slideshow of
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DAILY REVIEW: Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative by Lawrence Weschler
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Adventures in the Narrative by Lawrence Weschler Alec Hanley Bemis Somewhere at the intersection of practical science, high art, dorm room philosophy, and idiosyncratic star-making exists the journalism of Lawrence Weschler, a longtime New Yorker
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WATCH: John Hodgman's New Book Gets Celebrity-Packed Promo
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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And now there is That Is All , the final book in John Hodgman's trilogy on "complete world knowledge." The book will be released on November 1, and to make the people aware of its impendingness, Hodgman and director Tom Scharpling have created the
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Parting Tweet: John Hodgman Would Like You To Know He Did Not Announce Last Night’s Emmys
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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But John has set the record straight on Twitter, the world's foremost place for setting records straight...That is mystery one that can only be solved by a sleuth bored enough to go back and look at the credits. Anyone? be ivn r-znvy ng yvnan@
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Lists keep some students reading all summer
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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The Wichita Eagle For most people, summer reading means lying in a hammock or lounging by the pool, flipping through a magazine or soaking up a guilty-pleasure novel...Students in some high school and college programs, including the International
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PAPER TRAIL: Jul 13, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am
Des Moines :: IA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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McSweeney's debuts its food magazine , Lucky Peach , which features essays by chefs Anthony Bourdain and David Chang, recipes by Wylie Dufresne and Mario Carbone, and art by Tony Millionaire and Scott Teplin. The first issue is dedicated to Ramen,
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A life in writing: Vendela Vida
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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You share a love of books and an understanding that you don't want to linger over dinner' Vendela Vida ... 'I was tired of reading novels by women in which the men could act as badly as they wanted, while the female characters had to please and
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Robert Coover: a life in writing
Providence :: RI :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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It used modes of response to the world that had become stultified' Robert Coover. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe I am floating in a world made entirely of text. Lines of white courier type stretch away to the horizon, spelling out passages from Borges 's '
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