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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 ...
  10 hours 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 ...
  6 days ago

• “All That” — Another Excerpt from DFW’s The Pale King

  
  biblioklept — Authority: 421
  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

• Led astray by the no-split-infinitives fetish

  
  Motivated Grammar — Authority: 406
  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: 700
  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, ...
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• Chicken Little is History, Now’s the Time for Old School VC

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 668
  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 ...
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• Finger Flexion Redux

  
  Mark Athitakis' American Fiction Notes — Authority: 564
  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 ...
  1 week 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.
  2 weeks ago

• Daily Dose Pick: Zadie Smith

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 700
  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: 548
  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: 465
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• New DFW in the New Yorker

  
  spincitydotorg — Authority: 143
  There’s a new David Foster Wallace story in the New Yorker .
  2 weeks ago

• David Foster Wallace–”All That” (New Yorker)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 126
  SOUNDTRACK : BLACK SABBATH-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1974). Henry Rollins, on Think Tank talks about the “el niño” storms from several years back.  And he says that el niño means “little boy,” but the damage the storms did means they should have called it something scary and powerful like “The First ...
  2 weeks ago

• New David Foster Wallace Short Story

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 147
  This will happen fewer and fewer times.  In this case, it’s an excerpt for his final novel “The Pale King.” Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer. It was made of wood except for its wheels — axles — which, as I remember, were thin metal rods. I’m ninety per cent sure ...
  2 weeks ago

• Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers

  
  Omnivoracious — Authority: 538
  New York Times: The Sunday Book Review is the gift guide edition, with no cover review Kathryn Harrison on The Red Book by C.G. Jung: "Its publication was postponed until now, nearly 50 years after hisdeath, because Jung feared the book’s potential impact on hisreputation. After all, anyone who read it might ...
  2 weeks ago

• Closing My Tabs

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 145
  * First, more on the Medicare “buy-in” that is getting so much attention today, with support from Kevin Drum, Donkeylicious, Digby, Steve Benen, and others. I excitedly await Joe Lieberman’s promise to filibuster this. * UNL has a huge collection of free government comics . (Thanks Steve!) * David ...
  3 weeks ago

• Links for 12.7.09: I may start updating my Facebook status.

  
  the listenerd — Authority: 470
  * News : Apple bought Lala . (Hypebot offers this round-up of opinion on the acquisition from across the web.) I saw Lala CEO Bill Nguyen speak at a music discussion at CES last year, and he blew away everyone else on the panel with his smarts and enthusiasm. Does an Apple acquisition of this sort really mean hope ...
  3 weeks ago

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