April 2009
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"The Difference Between" by Lyz Lenz →
Lyz had one of her stories printed in a recent issue of Glasses Glasses. She’s probably the wittiest writer I know (just read the first section of dialogue) and someday she’s going to publish a wildly successful novel. Congrats Lyz even though this happened like two months ago!
WatchThis is via Joe from last week: Ira Glass on the Colbert Report
Colbert: My guest tonight is the host of a very popular public radio show. I’m going to ask him and his brother why the fan belt squeaks on my 1987 Honda Accord.
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Free Comic Book Day →
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday. Basically, you go to your local shop and they have a ton of free books published by Marvel and DC specifically for this day to promote the movie adaptations of their big releases this summer. (Expect there to be a lot of Wolverine this year.) But there’s also going to be one for Love & Rockets as well as a lot of other indie stuff. Lots of stores will...
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A photo tour of locations mentioned in Infinite... →
Someday, I will read this book. Also, I didn’t realize until moments ago that though Brighton is called “Enfield”, Allston retains its name and is mentioned frequently throughout the novel. All 1,079 pages of it.
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American Analog Set - “Make It Take...
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Jess and I walked into a bar in Park Slope that had the Red Sox-Yankees game on. When the bartender saw that I had a Massachusetts license he said, “HAHA, I guess I should cover up this YANKEES tattoo then, HAHA.” Two seconds later Youkilis hit a walk-off homer and he shut off the television.
“And that pretty much sums up the mixed mood in which Holdridge’s film unfolds,...”
– Anthony Lane’s review of In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Best email ever
from: Abramian, Matthew date: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM subject: Sonic the burgerhog is coming to new england mailed-by: gmail.com
Sonic is opening up in peabody, ma sometime in august…first one in new england apparently. I propose a trip out there in order to satisfy our gluttonous urges on tasty chili cheese coneys, supersonic burgers, and java chillers....
“‘Play Ball’, the passive-aggressive baseball anthem.”
– Kevin
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Andy Warhol's Time Capsule 21 →
A pictorial inventory of the twenty-first Time Capsule, Warhol’s amazing vanity project:
This serial work, spanning a thirty-year period from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, consists of 610 standard sized cardboard boxes, which Warhol, beginning in 1974, filled, sealed and sent to storage. Warhol used these boxes to manage the bewildering quantity of material that routinely passed...
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EA Sports Predicts Bruins Will Win Stanley Cup →
Electronic Arts has run the numbers in NHL 09, calling the Bruins to win the cup in six games, defeating the Chicago Blackhawks for their first Stanley Cup win in 37 years.
Unfortunately, NHL 08 predicted the Sharks to win last year. But I’m going to blame that one on Joe Thornton.
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“Someday someone’s going to figure out how to do an alternative Grammy Awards...”
– Karen Schoemer in her review of Hold Time.
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Bruins to play at Fenway on New Year's Day →
According to a source familiar with the negotiations between the league, the players, and the teams, the Bruins have been given the go-ahead to play this year’s Winter Classic outdoor game at Fenway Park on Jan. 1, 2010. That same source indicated their opponent could be either the Capitals or Flyers, though no decision has been made. Over the last three months, speculation has been that...
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Saved by the Bell: The Grad School Years →
SLATER: Did you do the Milton reading for our Early Modern seminar, preppy?
(ZACK sits on a futon under framed posters of T.S. Eliot, John Cheever, and Bret Easton Ellis.)
ZACK: Just because I’m writing my dissertation on the anxiety of influence of Tender Is the Night on Richard Yates’s midcareer short fiction doesn’t mean I’m a preppy, you medievalist.
SLATER: Yeah—and...
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