December 2009
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Rhymefest - Give It To Me Is El Che coming out yet? Between Rhymefest and Papoose, you’d almost think that rap hadn’t heard that releasing MORE music was the best idea.
Dec 14th
“This is the best possible book on this, or any other, subject.”
– Auberon Waugh’s all-purpose book blurb.
Dec 14th
Best-Of Lists: The New Yorker Blog : The New... →
The New Yorker’s put out a bunch of top ten lists for the year. These are pretty nice, as lists go; you can get a lot of interesting suggestions for neat stuff to read. Great. Awesome. The most valuable for me, though, were Sasha Frere-Jones’ best albums/songs list, Jill Lepore’s Top 10 of 1709, and James Woods’ books of the year. Also notable is that rare beast: actually...
Dec 11th
William Faulkner - Nobel Prize Speech →
3 minutes for one of the more privileged distinctions in his field. Pith. It’s good.
Dec 10th
“I Saw Nick Drake”
merlin: Nick Drake Nick Drake, c. 1969. No footage of the adult Drake exists; he was only ever captured in still photographs and in home footage from his childhood. Watched a bit of Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake last night, and that fact cited above is now kind of obsessing me. Read More
Dec 7th
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