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Of all the Year’s Best S.F. collection’s by Gardner Dozois, this one might be my favorite so far. There weren’t any stories that just blew me away, but there were only a couple I hated and I quite liked quite a bit. Best stories: Bears Discover Fire, Tower of Babylon, and Learning to Be Me.

Heather Matarazzo turns 26 next month. Matarazzo was still in her early teens when she starred in Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse, in which she gave a brave, risky performance as the iconically dislikable high school nerd Dawn Weiner; in her most recent movie appearance, in Hostel II, she got to hang upside down while a naked woman split her open with a scythe.

$2.00 Download Now! by Henry James 44 minutes, 35 seconds Unabridged Fantasy/Horror Story 1868 The first ghost story of Henry James, and was part of a gothic literature revival in the 1880s. First appeared in The Atlantic Monthly.

I can’t decide if this is real, a prank or just stupid. Apparently, one of the comedians featured in The Rolling Stone Comedy issue, was pissed at the other comedians because they were featured in The Rolling Stone Comedy Issue. Here’s the letter and then head over to Jossip to read more of the story.

Just two. Don’t forget to read my Google Reader feed (it’s in the sidebar too). Robert Samuelson gives a pretty good account of why all these brokerage houses are failing. It does seem as if the brokerages should be forbidden from making investments themselves.

You can tell by watching Robert Downey Sr.’s movies that he’s something of a renaissance man. He began making low-budget, “underground” cinema in his mid-twenties, after he had already been a semi-pro baseball player, a soldier and a working actor.

Have I told you how much I hate the flu? I'm trying to write this review with a fever of 101° F. I hope the review of "Salad for Two" by Robert Reed turns out coherent. Let me just stay this: I enjoyed it. I am rapidly becoming a Robert Reed fangirl. The tone and basic plot of "Salad for Two" reminds me a great deal of Philip K.

NEW YORK-PENN LEAGUE Batavia 13, Lowell 9 (The best-of-3 series is tied 1-1) It was a rollercoaster ride for the Batavia Muckdogs. In a must-win game to keep their season alive, Batavia got out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning.

The L.A. Times recently published their list of the 25 Best L.A. Films of the Past 25 Years. Naturally, some of the choices proved controversial (a lot of folks have trouble with the selection of Jackie Brown over Pulp Fiction, for instance), but Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule thinks it’s a decent list.

America tends to be quite good at cornering the market in whatever pursuit takes the national fancy. There’s baseball, of course; not to mention a movie business worth billions, a fast food industry that keeps a stranglehold on the world’s health, and really awful daytime TV.