Emma Stone & Andrew Garfield got stalked by paparazzi this weekend, and made a charitable promotion out of it. That's pretty awesome.

Linked for later reading: Malcolm Gladwell on how child molesters get away with it.

Outside wants to know why people keep dying on Everest.

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Fans of a certain age will get a kick out of this brief write-up of ( Read more... )

Some people might find a summer job pulling weeds boring. These two women climbers will be telling the story of this summer for the rest of their lives. Pretty awesome.

San Francisco Magazine mourns the Burning Man of the past.

According to Past Imperfect, the most contentious and ugly presidential election ever was Hayes v. Tilden in 1876.The ( Read more... )

The Economist has a nice memorial for Helen Gurley Brown, long-time editor of Cosmo and author of Sex and the Single Girl.

The New Republic has an appreciation of I Capture the Castle, which I need to reread at some point. Especially since I've been pushing Michelle Cooper's Montmaray novels at people with the argument that they're like I Capture ( Read more... )

Linkspam is back, with some adorable knobbly-kneed moose calves.

I knew that Leonardo did a lot of life drawings. I don't know whether I knew he did anatomical drawings from corpses. Fascinating stuff.

Outside Magazine has a video of Will Stanhope free soloing a 5.12d route at Squamish. Translation for the non-climbers: that's someone climbing ( Read more... )

I'm in a foul mood today, for a variety of reasons, most of them minor. But there's a new Where the Hell is Matt video, and if it doesn't make you cry, well, you're made of sterner stuff than I am.

Look over here! There's a a ridiculously cute amur leopard cub!

Book View Cafe has a recipe for a summer fruit pudding that looks kind of cool. Hmm ( Read more... )

Oh, this is fun: your Dalek of the day.

By way of Alyssa Rosenberg: an oral history of The Wire, at Maxim (yikes).

Linked by miss-porcupine: this cool series of Shakespeare adaptations by the BBC will be coming this summer. Christmas in June for Anglothespianphiles! Jeremy Irons! Tom Hiddleston! Patrick Stewart! Ben Whishaw! Coolness! (Although "my" Henry V ( Read more... )

Linked by way of TNC: Dorothy Parker on writing. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

The New Yorker did a good thing, hiring Emily Nussbaum. Here she meditates on Community and Doctor Who.

Mosquito season! Aaaagh! Oh, wait, I live in the Bay Area. Never mind...

Rookie magazine on street harrassment as experience by girls and ( Read more... )

I read Born to Run last summer--not any Springsteen-related thing, but the nonfiction book by Christopher McDougall about long-distance running. One of the key figures in the book is El Caballo Blanco, aka Micah True, a rangy expatriate American that McDougall discovered running legendary distances with the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon. It' ( Read more... )

Charlie Pierce really is a national treasure. We owe each other a debt. We owe each other an obligation. That is the thing to which we truly commit ourselves if we follow our Constitution. It is a charter that enumerates individual liberties, but it is not a license for unbridled greed or reckless political solipsism. We owe each other a debt and ( Read more... )

Two orphaned baby owls. So cute!

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The New Yorker on how The Daily Mail became so powerful in Britain.

Hunter S. Thompson's piece (I will not call it an elegy) on the death of Richard Nixon.

On average, 24 horses die each week at racetracks across America. Good god: I had no idea it was that bad. This is a very disturbing article: TW for ( Read more... )