Whatever else is going on, make sure that you keep buying typewriter ribbon.
In the February issue of The Believer there’s a fantastic interview conversation. Neko Case shares an exchange she had with Sherman Alexie “a couple of winters ago.” SA: I tell them, “I write this shit...
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Rick Neece: When I think of pianos or organs, big or small, or any other instrument (writing fits in this thought, or any one collection of things one gathers to put together) I think of them as...
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The New Yorker‘s Mary Norris responded to criticism about the diaeresis, recently maligned repeatedly by The Atlantic. Which side are you on, boys? (and girls)
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@deronbauman Fort Spunky. — Sheila Ryan (@Cirinda) May 5, 2012 @deronbauman Fort Spanky. Fort Stinky. Fort Punky. Fort Skanky. Fort Rinky-Dink. Fort Honky. Fort Monkey Butt. Fort Yankee. Fort Wonky. —...
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Zizek on Zizek in the Guardian at more length than necessary but still, in part, amusing: “For me, the idea of hell is the American type of parties. Or, when they ask me to give a talk, and they say...
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Your hair is as healthy and shiny as any I’ve ever seen, although it’s true that scruffy, dull locks suit many people, too, and total baldness implies toughness or sophistication. Our years of...
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A walk anywhere during winter will discover single, lost gloves, sometimes impaled upon iron railing spikes, more often lying forlorn and trampled on pavements, in gutters. There are so many on these...
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Herzog on Ebert: The good soldier of cinema. I kept calling him that and he kept calling me that. He saw in me a good soldier in cinema. I said you are even more. He was a wounded soldier. He was ill...
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