Just another honkin’ load of links, courtesy of my Twitter feed at twitter.com/groth18!
RT @kylevanblerk (Kyle VanBlerk): Awesome people hanging out together. Early contender for Tumblr of the day.
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RT @neilhimself (Neil Gaiman): Remembering Douglas Adams in the Guardian. So odd to realise I’m now older than Douglas, who was always older than me.
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RT @mattzollerseitz (Matthew Seitz): The 10 greatest sequels of all time. By MZS.
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RT @magiciansbook (Laura Miller): “An entire train station full of used books”
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RT @witoldr (Witold Rybczynski): The High Line succeeds in New York, but will it work as well elsewhere?
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RT @nerdist (Chris Hardwick): These Sci-Fi Ikea instructions are perhaps the best things ever formed with molecules: (via @CollegeHumor)
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RT @DwightGarner (Dwight Garner): I’m pulling for Clive James, who is fighting leukemia.
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Unfocused #RonRosenbaum column about #BobDylan (but still worth reading)
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Tappan Zee: bridge to the past.
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Will my forever stamps still be good if there’s no USPS?
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A lengthy review of #HaroldBloom’s career, masked as a review of his new book.
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Oy, with the brain-frying books! (Me, I’ll be Kindle-ing P&V’s translation of The Brothers K
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Apparently, the house DOESN’T always win: #blackjack #theotherdonjohnson
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@hoopspeak demolishing some #NBA myths.
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Shaq is 15 months younger than me, and he’s done. NBA makes you feel old. #nba #geriatrics
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I like to think @DeShawnStevens takes his personal tattoo artist everywhere, not just preseason parties. #gomavs!
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Chester Brown: A praying mantis with testicles. (C’mon world! Let’s make #prayingmantiswithtesticles trend!)
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Lidsville! (On the road, I have to order a med. from @dunkindonuts because the small coffee lid tends to leak. Grr.)
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#MartinAmis vs. the Dead Bores (I thought #LondonFields was fantastic (and gorgeously lyrical in its apocalypticism))
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“But why did you need to build 2 synagogues?” #JewsinAmerica
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I’ve found another #AnotherWoman fan! #openingshots #youmustchangeyourlife #WoodyAllen
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To Hull and Back: #ChristopherHitchens on #PhilipLarkin (with a side-trip to #Orwell)
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“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” #techboom #howl
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“They called it show business, but it’s really showing-off business.” Awesome #BillWithers interview. #lovelyday
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Whatchoo got in that #BAG?
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Sorry, #MichaelJordan, but the stripes are not slimming. They are, however, giving me a headache.
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Bryan Ferry: Style Icon #bryanferry
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My pocket square, my self (with @simondoonan)
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@SeriousEats asks the serious question: In-N-Out vs. Shake Shack vs. Five Guys. #burgervsburger
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Rio Rancho and the Arena to Nowhere (sounds like a bad episode of @parksandrecnbc)
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Neat @LouisCK profile. #seasontwoinjune!
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Imelda Marcos, reincarnated as a man. #thatsalotofshoes
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You can get ugly, but make sure you don’t go full retard: #oscarbait #donthatemebecauseimbeautiful
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Art Books, part I: The Book Surgeon at work
Art Books, part II: @ChipKidd with Superman & Batman.
Art (Garfunkel) Books, part III: All the books I’ve read. #ArtGarfunkel
Art (of) Books(elling): 14 bookstores to see before you die. #Ivebeentofourofthem
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Treasure trove: SF writers on their favorite SF novels/writers
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fun recap of 13 roles by @mradamscott #partydown
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Sexy lady-spies of #Mossad
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Gandalf or Rick Rubin? #okayitsGandalf #thehobbit
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Guess what happens when you buy a piece of crap from H&M? #hm #crapiscrap
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Omar=Achilles? Brandon=Patroclus? Zowie! #TheWire #Iliad
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‘Twas architecture that killed the museum. #AFAM #bronzedKleenexbox
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Good night, sweet Tractor Traylor. #tractortraylor #nba #milwaukeecouldhavehadNowitzki
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Kane at 70: Labyrinth, Heart of Darkness, Everything. #OrsonWelles #CitizenKane
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Taking participatory journalism to its absurd conclusion. #LeeJudge #KCRoyals #beanball
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Nobody likes #Sbarro (especially in NJ)
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Great men’s grooming moments in movies (#SteveCarrell was only the runner-up? Boo…)
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The #DeathStar wasn’t a make-work project? #starwars
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#ChristopherHitchens has outlived #OsamaBinLaden: #thatisall
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#Shelfporn! (we have too many books for any of these configurations, but they remain awesome!)
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I really need to read The Leopard somedamntime, don’t I? #lampedusa (I read the Leopard a few weeks later, and it’s rapidly ascended to the top 5 of my favorite novels.)
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Pinball? Wizard!
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RT @nathanrabin (Nathan Rabin): Deep down I suspect that I’m incredibly lazy and toil ceaselessly so nobody ever finds out. Anyone else feel that way?