Link-pharm:
- Is it true there are no new ideas? Everybody in Hollywood seems to think so: Writer Sues ABC Over Lost. (I can’t help but wonder if he doesn’t mean Land of the Lost, another Sid & Marty Kroft production. The idea we might see Sleestaks on Lost this season both amuses and troubles me.)
- from Bookslut (and the New Yorker) comes the terrific word esquivalience, meaning “the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities” (which seems all too sadly applicable lately)
- from Neil Gaiman, the first track of Lenny Henry’s reading of Gaiman’s upcoming Anansi Boys. I’m usually of two minds when it comes to audio books; there’s great pleasure to be had in them, but they’re not the same as reading the book yourself. I don’t know if I’m a big enough fan of Gaiman to get both the book and the audio CD. On the other hand, Lenny Henry’s really good…
- also from Gaiman, the Satanic tomato
- a couple of McSweeney’s lists — first, from Betty, there’s Klingon Fairy Tales; and from Bookslut, there’s Not-So-Good Names for Murder Mysteries. (My particular favorite is Think Every Agatha Christie Novel, Only With Squirrels. Mainly because the writer in me now is thinking it.)
- from Boing Boing, 57 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena, FedEx Furniture, and Robotic Space Penguin — the last I share only because, c’mon, Robotic Space Penguin!
- from Mighty Girl, faces on things
- from Nalo Hopkinson, Interior Desecrations, “a brutal examination of the unlovely, unattractive, unlivable and unforgivable homes of the 1970s.”
- from Jeremy, the very short and silly Llama Song
- an amusing fortune cookie fortune
- Pac-Man on trial
And that’s it.