December 2008
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Year in books
Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss God Save the Fan by Will Leitch The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work by Douglas Wolk Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes David Boring by Daniel Clowes Before Elvis There Was Nothing by Laurie Foos Feast...
Year in movies
Cloverfield Casablanca Be Kind Rewind This American Life - Live! Iron Man Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Casablanca (again) The Dark Knight Hancock Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist (ugh) Milk The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Slumdog Millionaire The Wrestler
Year in cities
Brooklyn, NY Boston, MA New Milford, CT Northbridge, MA Allentown, PA Charleston, WV Louisville, KY Indianapolis, IN Chicago, IL Milwaukee, WI South Bend, IN Youngstown, OH Vero Beach, FL
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SIS: The Best of 2008 →
1. Vampire Weekend / Vampire Weekend / XL 2. She & Him / Volume One / Merge 3. Sigur Ros / Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust / XL 4. The Walkmen / You & Me / Gigantic 5. The Long Blondes / Couples / Rough Trade 6. Albert Hammond, Jr. / ¿Como te Llama? / RCA 7. Tullycraft / Every Scene Needs a Center / Magic Marker 8. Santogold / Santogold / Downtown 9. Of Montreal / Skeletal Lamping /...
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The Thermoses - Wonderful Christmastime
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This American Life: Ep. 305 - Holiday Spectacular →
A full-throttle, show-stopping, no-holds-barred Christmas Spectacular! Shedding the crusty old Christmas stories of yore, this year we bring you brand new holiday classics. With special musical guest Marah! Featuring David Rackoff, John Hodgman, Sarah Vowell, Jonathan Goldstein, and more!
Ayn Rand’s A Selfish Christmas →
In this hour-long radio drama, Santa struggles with the increasing demands of providing gifts for millions of spoiled, ungrateful brats across the world, until a single elf, in the engineering department of his workshop, convinces Santa to go on strike. The special ends with the entropic collapse of the civilization of takers and the spectacle of children trudging across the bitterly cold, dark...
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The Thermoses - Christmas in Allston
This is...
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A Very 8-Bit Christmas Album →
Some developers send holiday cards, fancy gaming cards, to us this time of year. But not Foundation 9, they send their own holiday album of not just Christmas music, but 8-Bit Christmas music.
Sadly, only “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” is the only song available to stream.
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Drunk Lennon recording grabs $30K at auction →
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“I think the Whalers are the PBR of hockey.”
– Jessica
Self-Aware Daydreamers More Creative, Study Shows →
Many scientists argue that daydreaming is a crucial tool for creativity, a thought process that allows the brain to make new associations and connections. Instead of focusing on our immediate surroundings - such as the message of a church sermon - the daydreaming mind is free to engage in abstract thought and imaginative ramblings. As a result, we’re able to imagine things that don’t...
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I don’t remember the Cloverfield monster looking like this. I think I made it a giant iguana in my mind.
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Kazio Mario is a hack of Super Mario World that rearranges the levels in an incredibly difficult manner. There are plenty of speed runs on Youtube but you may be more interested in watching people screw up.
Sox to Unveil new Logo, alternate uniform →
Ugh, the Red Sox will unveil changes to logos and select uniforms on Thursday.
It’s likely the team will reveal a new “alternate uniform,” to either replace or supplement the red tops the team often wears for Sunday home games.
There’s no word yet on what the new logo will look like, or whether it will replace the existing one, which dates back decades.
November 22 marked the 21st anniversary of the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident on WGN-TV and WTTW.
Around 11:15 p.m., during a broadcast of the Doctor Who episode “Horror of Fang Rock”, PBS station WTTW’s signal was hijacked using the same video that was broadcast during the WGN-TV hijack, this time with distorted audio. The person in the Max Headroom mask...
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The double life of Zooey Deschanel (movie star by day, indie rocker by night) continues as Paste named her record their album of the year. As they note, it’s hard to believe the co-star of The Happening (ugh) and Yes Man wrote the year’s best album.
I don’t know how reputable a source absolutepunk.net is when it comes to breaking television news but according to this post post funnyordie.com will have the Season 2 premiere of Flight of the Conchords available on December 17th even though it doesn’t premiere on HBO until January 9th.
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I discovered this via kottke. It’s written for historians but can be applied directly to writers or pretty much everybody.
Collect; that is to say, collect everything, indiscriminately. You’re five years old. Don’t presume too much to know what’s important and what isn’t. Photocopy journal articles, photograph archives; create bibliographies, buy books; make notes on every article or book...