The classiest fam in Hollywood loves Mara’s barrettes; this time Violet rocks them. Nice. Buy em here, and pass it on.
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It’s not a word, but lots of people like to use it as if it were. Over the past few years, I’ve heard it more and more often, but today was the first day I’ve ever seen it in the mainstream media. Hmmm. Is there something deficient about “influential” or “resonant?” What about affecting, authoritative, [...]
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Some great stuff on FFFFOUND, a social bookmarking service for images. It’s in private beta, and I’ll be curious how they maintain the current, continual high quality, as in images like this ... Like this stuff by Andrei Robu. Via kottke.
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I’ve spent a lot time combing through the archives of Paper Cuts, the blog of the New York Times Book Review editor Dwight Garner. It steers clear of smartypantsness, focusing on what one might call the lighter side of serious literature. In fact, most of the content is on the periphery of the strictly literary — a [...]
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My cozy bed between Herman Miller chairs at Dulles. News flash: Air travel really sucks right now (Washington Post). A couple of weeks ago, I too was touched by this national nightmare. On a Friday evening, I planned to fly from Dulles to SFO, but got slapped with an SSSS on my boarding pass (expired [...]
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A moment from a beautiful, riveting scene in Killer of Sheep. Photo: Milestone Films. Killer of Sheep is director Charles Burnett’s account of life in the LA neighborhood of Watts in the early 1970’s. It began life as his senior thesis at UCLA film school and until recently it was never seen outside art houses [...]
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UPDATE 1: A couple of changed picks; UPDATE 2: Some eerie resemblances my bracket and those of SI writers; UPDATE 4: Surveying the carnage: Thoughts after the first two rounds Here’s the bracket that I made on the Monday after the seedings were announced. UPDATE: Since Monday, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading [...]
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In 1978, Philip K Dick published an essay called “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later.” The title sort of says it all; it’s about how to envision the world of a story in a way that lasts. He cuts right to chase, too, confronting the hard question that most [...]
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the 
