Sitting on the couch this morning, late for work, rereading parts of The Believers by Zoë Heller while listening to "Let It Bleed": two great tastes that taste great together.

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I finally made it to Artomatic last night, the last night of the show. I wandered around for quite a while without seeing anything that really grabbed me, and then on the tenth floor I struck gold. ( Image-heavy )

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*Fill in each letter of the alphabet with a title of a book that you've read that begins with that letter (e.g. American Psycho for the letter A ( Read more... )

I've just found Will Okun's New York Times blog. He's a schoolteacher in Chicago who was chosen in a contest to travel around Africa with Times columnist Nick Kristof, and now he's back to work and still blogging. Today he writes about how his students fall asleep every time he tries to work on traditional literary classics with them, no matter ( Read more... )

I was going to put this up even before atenea_nike made her latest post, I swear. It's all a coincidence. Click the link to read the reactions of three average Americans to the news.

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First some links:

Women are deploying panties in a protest against Burma's military rulers. Apparently General Than Shwe believes that contact with women's undergarments saps him of power. Got panties? Lanna Action for Burma urges you to send, deliver or simply fling them at your nearest Burmese embassy or consulate ( Read more... )

( From SNL via YouTube: The classic game of strategy and wits... and bubbles! )