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Can I just say I’m quite enjoying the summer issue of Geist? Sure, I didn’t even make the shortlist for their postcard story contest, and their crossword puzzle hurts my brain every time, but there’s a lot of intriguing stuff inside the issue, even for a non-Canadian like myself. Like, for instance, this article about Banff, . . . → Read More: Geist Summer 2010 So now it’s not “what the founding fathers meant” but “what the mid-nineteeth-century fathers meant”? Look, Iowa GOP, it seems to me that, if the best you can come up with is a version of a constitutional amendment that was never actually ratified, you’re grasping at straws. [via] Bloomsbury will e-publish a one-million-page Churchill archive. I’m imagining . . . → Read More: Thursday various Six degrees of literary separation? [via] If nothing else, I think this elaborte fake ATM is proof that you don’t need a carefully designed forgery to fool a lot of people. [via] The Cracked Guide to Fonts [via] You know, I’m sure Tin House‘s heart was in the right place with this prove you bought a book somewhere before . . . → Read More: Wednesday various Snapple Iced Tea Ingredients, depicted graphically. Crayola Thanks the Tea Partiers. The video was pulled from YouTube, even though it’s clearly parody. Sound familiar? [via] Speaking of Crayola and parody… [via] I got a real kick out of these Gashlycrumb Losties. Huge spoilers for past episodes of the show, it should be said. Personally, I don’t really . . . → Read More: Monday various It goes without saying that “Arizona’s draconian new immigration law is an abomination,” right? [via] In semi-related news: Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black. [via] The Canadian Science Fiction Review is an interesting idea, though I’m not sure I like their chances for getting fully funded by May 15, I’m sad . . . → Read More: Tuesday various If you’ve ever wanted to search the entire 137-year archive of Popular Science, well, now you can. [via] I like these re-imagined Stephen King book covers. [via] And this: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1988. [via] Zombie apocalypse survival flowchart [via] And finally, Todd VanDerWerff on why it doesn’t really matter if all the mysteries on Lost don’t add up. . . . → Read More: Tuesday various Mother Jones on the death of literary magazines. To which my short answer is: same as it ever was, same as it ever was. I think there’s an argument to made that readership is down, but I don’t think that’s reflected in the number of different venues for writers. Some literary magazines will die off, or . . . → Read More: Tuesday various Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean. Of course, it’ll be in a million years or so, but still. [via] I’ve been impressed with Geist ever since Heather got me a subscription to the magazine — to the point that I didn’t think twice about renewing my subscription, even as I let my New Yorker . . . → Read More: Thursday various |
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