Long weekend, dear American readers! Better fill it up with lots of oddball links! Just click more!
How do you really feel, about Jay Mariotti’s departure, Mr. Ebert?
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Rupert Murdoch cares not for your silly books! (seriously, book publishing is such a minuscule contributor to News Corp.’s bottom line)
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Speaking of stupidity in publishing, you’re stupid. No one in book publishing is saying, “We need to act more like Nick Denton.”
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Let me get this straight: we’re supposed to feel sad for architects whose main job was designing impossible structures that were suited for YES album covers? Continue with your batshit-crazy pity-party, Mr. Ouroussoff.
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Michael Blowhard has a pretty neat post about retirement, as well as the process of counting down the days.
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And speaking of work. . .
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Just another reason the New York Sun is my favorite NYC-area local area paper: time for a retrospective on J.M.W. Turner and Ruskin!
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People giving the Dynamic Tower static.
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My pen is — oh, never mind. Here’s a blast from the past: I, Pencil.
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Whoops! Constitution! (naturally, no mention of Gitmo in Obama’s acceptance speech last night)
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Today’s the 3rd anniversary of the flood of New Orleans. Nicole Gelinas has an article on the progress that’s been made. Here’s one of my sadder pictures from our trip down there six weeks after the storm:
