hot damn... the atlantic monthly's website just took down its paywall so anyone can now read their mag online for free, including archives. (i do still enjoy sitting down with a hard copy, tho. which i get from the library.)

We hope that the quality of its writing, the trenchancy of its insights, and the depth and thoughtfulness of its reporting ( Read more... )

for every vocab word you guess right, this site donates free rice to those who need it. it's pretty addictive.


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i drove to santa monica to see 'the future is unwritten' at the nuart. i'm crushing on joe strummer.

i just saw 'sunshine,' the sci-fi/philosophe (that is a new genre i have just made up, i am calling it "SFP" for "sci-fi/philosophe") movie by danny boyle/alex garland about mostly cute guys who travel to the sun aboard the Icarus II to reignite it to save a dying earth in the future. it was pretty mesmerizing visually/spatially/sonically and ( Read more... )

"morning becomes eclectic"'s live session with my future interviewee/husband britt daniel -- he of the sweetest falsetto-whelp known to indie rockdom -- and spoon. in the first (in-studio) photo on that page he is staring into my soul and telling me, "move to portland. i will wait for you."

image comics put out a series called "phonogram" -- subtitled "rue brittania" -- described as a "modern dark-fantasy ... focused around a spiteful social-group of pop-obsessives."

the six-part series came with covers that riffed off of popular britpop albums (see them here -- very cool), including elastica, black grape, blur, oasis, suede, and ( Read more... )

another good reason to live there:
the avett brothers' "die die die"

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dylan hears a who (this works in firefox)

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a convenient way to give donation cards and gifts to non-profits, changing the present breaks it down into what type of cause you'd like to give (whether it's water, microcredit, millennium goals, mental health, etc.), where, et cetera.

http://www.changingthepresent.org/