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If you haven’t yet, go to Deadspin and read Will Leitch’s article about his relationship with Roger Ebert. The quote below appears in it. It’s a warm, decent, wonderful story that will make you want to be a better person. I say this without the slightest bit of hyperbole.

This ran in the Globe about two years ago but Joshua Glenn describes the generation of those born from 1974-1983, such as myself, as the Net Generation.

Socially speaking, Netters were the first American generation in a century or more to successfully merge a strong proficiency with technology and coolness/attractiveness… The prime fictional example is Seth Cohen on “The O.C.” Adam Brody, who portrayed Cohen, is a Netter, as is Alexis Bledel, who played Rory, the cute (and, later, sexy) young intellectual on “Gilmore Girls.” Elijah Wood, who made J.R.R. Tolkien’s hairy-footed Frodo Baggins sexy, and Tobey Maguire, who did the same thing for Marvel Comics’s nebbishy Peter Parker — also Netters.

These are awesome examples.

Apparently, the cast of Mad Men independently all grew beards during the show’s off-season. Michael Gladis—aka Paul Kinsey—reviews/mocks eveyone’s facial hair.

I only collect games that were released in the US commercially, so the Nintendo World Championship and Campus Challenge carts and Punch-Out!! Special Edition fall out of that category. Ditto Devil World and Mr. Gimmick which were only released in Europe and Japan.

This American Life celebrates its 400th episode by taking all the bad ideas for stories that their families have suggested to them over the years and try and make them interesting and exciting. Topics include Ira losing a suit on the train, funny funerals, the unofficial Eerie Canal theme song!

Because my school thinks a good way to get people interested in its programs is to have me talk about comic books, I’m doing a presentation on Saturday at our Living Creatively event called The Ninth Art: Storytelling in Graphic Novels and Comic Books and How They Pertain to Fiction Writing. My presentation is at 3:50 and it’s open to the public. I promise not to mention the Nite Owl or Silk Spectre once. Maybe.