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• Charice Celebrates Love in Valentine Concert

  
  Charice — Authority: 134
  Next to Christmas and New Year’s Day, undoubtedly the most important event in the year’s social calendar is Valentine’s Day. Dedicated to the human emotion of love, the milestone is celebrated with various special activities intended to cement the bond of love and affection among lovers, families and ...
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• Books To Look Forward To In 2010

  
  biblioklept — Authority: 423
  A couple of months ago, this cryptic postcard arrived in the mail: A second novel from Ralph Ellison ? Wasn’t that Juneteenth , the posthumous work pieced together from thousands of pages and notes by Ellison’s literary executor, John Callahan? The one that was kinda sorta panned as a mess (or at least an ...
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• 60,000

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 126
  [ cue music ]: I saw these stats come sailing in, on Christmas Day on Christmas Day. I hit 60,000 views on Christmas Day in the mor-ning. I hit 30,000 views back in March, and I was quite thrilled.  When I started the blog in May of 2007 I didn’t expect to get all that many views, it was more or less a blog to ...
  2 days ago

• Reminder: Charice & David Foster to Appear on the Early Show, 12/26

  
  Charice — Authority: 134
  REMINDER to watch The Early Show-Saturday Edition’s Second Cup Cafe tomorrow morning, Dec. 26, where Charice and David Foster will perform “The Christmas Song.” In Seattle, the show runs from 5AM – 7AM on CBS Channel 7.  The show starts at 7AM in other areas of the USA. Please be sure to check your ...
  5 days ago

• Watch Charice on Probe Profile full video interview in case you missed it!

  
  Why Not Coconut! — Authority: 139
  Watch Charice A Probe Christmas Special on Probe Profile  interview last December 23, 2009 on ABS-CBN  in its entirety where she narrates her humble beginnings from singing contest she participated in up to her present Celebrity status. How she rose to fame and the people who helped her along the way! Click ...
  1 week ago

• "Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there..."

  
  Conserva tive Radical — Authority: 139
  “ Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or ...
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• “All That” — Another Excerpt from DFW’s The Pale King

  
  biblioklept — Authority: 423
  The New Yorker recently published another excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s forthcoming posthumous novel, The Pale King. Their editors (?) are calling it “ All That .” Here’s the first two paragraphs, although, if you’re a DFW fan you’ve probably already gone to the full excerpt: Once when I ...
  1 week ago

• Considering the Lobster from Seat 1F

  
  Serve It Forth — Authority: 112
  The set of algorithms used to determine which passengers, if any, will be promoted from the confines of coach to the broad berths of rows one through four or six or eight is so filled with exceptions, contingencies and variables that I’m not even sure the fictional Will Hunting could solve the equation.  Generally, ...
  1 week ago

• Charice & David Foster to appear on The Early Show, 12/26

  
  Charice — Authority: 134
  Rumor has it that Charice and David Foster will appear once again on The Early Show-Saturday Edition’s Second Cup Cafe next Saturday, December 26th, to perform “The Christmas Song.” The article below appears to be an advance write-up of that appearance, so please be sure to check your local TV station listings ...
  1 week ago

• Led astray by the no-split-infinitives fetish

  
  Motivated Grammar — Authority: 407
  There is nothing wrong in English with splitting an infinitive. There never was anything wrong with it, either. You probably all knew that already. Unfortunately, the loudest grammar snobs are the ones who’ve put the least research into their opinions, and so, for every ten people quietly aware that infinitives ...
  1 week ago

• The Ultimate Break-Up Kit

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 698
  December is pretty much the worst month for a break-up. Its cold, and all of a sudden youre snuggle-partnerless. The holidays are incoming, and not only will you have to bring back that gift you so thoughtfully purchased for your (in)significant other in advance, youll also have to explain that no, youre single now, ...
  1 week ago

• Andrea Bocelli Singeth Caro Gesu Bambino, a Christmas Carol

  
  Knights of the Pain Table — Authority: 127
  Andrea BocelliOn Thanksgiving night in the US, PBS aired the special, “The David Foster & Andrea Bocelli Christmas Special.”   With purity and grace, Andrea sang some of the most beloved Christmas carols, which are on his new CD. One of the songs on his new album is Caro Gesù Bambino,   a carol that was ...
  1 week ago

• Chicken Little is History, Now’s the Time for Old School VC

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 660
  Biotech , people , VC Charlotte Hubbert wrote: “Biotech is Broken!” “Pharmaceuticals Out of Balance!” “Venture Capital abandoning Biotech Sector!” Lately articles on the state of biotech scream out like spinning headlines on the MovieTone News Reels from seventy years ago: “Millions out of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Finger Flexion Redux

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 566
  A friend of mine once had a college professor who had a special term for scare quotes —”prophylactic quotes,” he called them. That’s a little clunky, but it does get to the heart of what scare quotes do; we use them when we want to insulate ourselves from the meaning or emotion that might be attached to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Supposedly Fun Books I’ll Never Read Again

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  David Foster Wallace’s top ten books may surprise you. Via Twitter.
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• Daily Dose Pick: Zadie Smith

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 698
  Zadie Smiths Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays demonstrates the bestselling novelists prowess as an accessible critic and a relatable reader.Related posts: Daily Dose Pick: The Double Life Is Twice as Good Daily Dose Pick: Smith Magazine Daily Dose Pick: A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
  2 weeks ago

• Linkology: Friday Links for 12/11/09

  
  MIPRO Unfiltered — Authority: 122
  Skipped our Friday Links feature last Friday in favor of a silly quiz , so we have some catching up to do. Got (good) milk?  You almost certainly don’t.  Warren Taylor is out to change that. Dragon Dictation for the iPhone is has been released (free for a limited time), and it’s nothing short of ...
  2 weeks ago

• For Your Reading Pleasure

  
  An und fr sich — Authority: 522
  The latest issue of the New Yorker has a new story by the dearly missed David Foster Wallace, titled “ All That .”  It is worth reading. Posted in David Foster Wallace
  2 weeks ago

• The Taste of Thursday

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  * 5 Ways Obama Can Redeem His Nobel. * Fight Climate Change, Not Wars. * Hard to believe a tip like this turned out to be unreliable. Via Vu. * Scientists have apparently uncovered syntax in monkey language . And yes, I learned this from The Colbert Report. * Matt Taibi is—act surprised— ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lets Book Club!: A Supposedly Fun Thing Ill Never Do Again (prt. 2) by David Foster Wallace

  
  (London, ON:) Burgeoning Metropolis — Authority: 466
  Part 1, the first three essays . David Lynch Keeps His Head Not really sure what to say, since, you know, Ive never seen anything that David Lynch -- a filmmaker -- has ever produced/directed/acted in/been involved with, I think. Having said that, DFWs descriptions of everything outside of detailed comparisons of ...
  3 weeks ago

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