Let's Link

It's that time o' day when I like to share some stuff I've come across...let the fun begin:

1. First, I cannot believe I was unaware of Sedaris's book signing at Strand. Very uncool. It may take me a few days to get over this. In the meantime though, he has apparently signed "at least" 5 kindles, as opposed to the run-of-the-mill autograph on audience member's new copy. Weird. Even the world of autographs is morphing. In weirder news, one of David's audience members once offered him a taste of her breast milk. He, as we would come to expect from such a man, accepted the offer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/business/media/15kindle.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=media&adxnnlx=1245078113-wWQokwrnX/d89GQb59SOuw

2. Who needs a family car?! Just pile the kids in the back. Or, you know, groceries and stuff...


http://www.madsencycles.com/bikes/gallery/cream-bucket.php

3. Heard this on NPR this morning and made me want to re-watch the film (yep...http://catandgirl.com/?page_id=71)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105387235

4. I wanna be a Book Ninja! Hiyah! http://www.bookninja.com/?p=5547

(but I don't have the time ::sheepish look::)

5. R.I.P. Harold Norse: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/arts/music/13norse.html?hpw

6. Want to read: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/06/novelist_binnie_kirshenbaum_on.html

7. So you know how when you double-click on a word in a NYT article it links you to the definition? Check out this spreadsheet that illustrates the most frequently looked-up words:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rZbzkb-mmQHD6Mru7vUVeLQ&output=html


8. Even though Macmillan isn't on this chart (lame!), I still think this is cool. The biodiversity of publishing logos:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/06/07/books/felton-ready.html

I think my favorite may be "Libros para Ninos"

9. Some anonymous person commented on one of my posts from a couple months ago about their Family Crest...which made me curious about the Howe Family Crest. Ends up it means: Semper Verus. Translated, this means "Always True". Couldn't really ask for anything better. Thank you, oh ye anonymous commenter, for piquing my interest

10. Number ten...have a wonderful day!

Effulgence

It's true!  I don't mean to be neglecting the blog, but, eh...you know, I have been busy!  I will make it a point to write a real post early this week.

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Oh, I finally got my bike!  Yesterday was full of exploration on two [rickety] wheels.  I felt so good, weaving in and out of traffic on my little red Free Spirit.  Riding a bike through the city for the first time truly makes you feel like you can conquer the world.  I came back after a long day feeling like nothing lingers in the realm of impossibility.  "What?", you say, "That's crazy, how can riding a bike make you feel that way?".  Ride through NYC and answer your own question.

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quelques choses à partager

Things I've come across throughout the day...


HA! Awesome. Love the photo, too. Utter look of confusion/disbelief/"wait...what?":

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/06/report_miss_californias_been_f.html?ft=1&f=103943429

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Makes me want to dig into my anthology of Renaissance Drama plays. Good stuff.

http://www.bookglutton.com/reader/unbound?id=282&group_id=0&view=ub

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Very messed up:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/06/breaking_news_shots_fired_at_h.html?sc=tw&cc=tw-acarvin

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Yet another reason internet dating is messed up. Guy finds love on match.com and still sues for $5 mill:

http://gothamist.com/2009/06/10/dude_finds_love_on_matchcom_but_sue.php

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Should be good and a little bit freaky (a kind of freaky that this Nation needs). Looking fwd to seeing it...eventually:

http://food.theatlantic.com/the-food-channel/yes-you-have-to-see-food-inc.php

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Ok, I could go on but c'est tout pour maintenant!

...catch you on the flip side

Jump

Punctuate the air with your thoughts, re-shape the molecular formations around you

Human bulb. Plant roots. Cell leaves. Person pod. Mud womb. Earth nest. Real growth.

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Breathe...ok.

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I would cup my hands, realizing I had become what it was I wanted to be...

Good Morning!  A blog post on a Friday morning from the comfort of my own little kitchen...which, by the way, has a fresh batch of beautiful pink flowers sprouting from the table.  Coffee, rain outside, a ridiculous conversation already under my belt, a good day ahead...YES!

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Is it a little creepy that I am very attracted to the "shot through my heart" necklace in the "boutique" section?  I mean, really, I have been thinking about this necklace for about a week now...I don't understand!  I think I like that it's simultaneously beautiful and disturbing; a combination I've always been partial to.  Check it out: 

http://www.thefetty.com/

I like the one w/ the tooth, too

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...Which reminds me of my visit to Colorado about 5-6 years ago.  I had been skiing all morning and around 1pm decided it was time for the good ol' traditional ski lodge meal: grilled cheese (or mac n' cheese) with waffle fries (lunch of champions) and some poisonous soda beverage.  Anyway, I found a table and started taking of my 304,786,506 layers of fleece, wool, cotton, , etc.  THEN, I shift my cold little fingers around in my mitten and feel something hard.  Hm.  So I take the mitten off, clutching to the hard object that I somehow hadn't felt all morning long.  I unfold my hand in in my palm rested a......can you guess?......a human molar!  The first thing I did was feel all of my teeth with my tongue.  Nope, they were all there.  Nobody else in the group had lost a tooth, as we were all beyond 10 yrs of age.  So, random molar in my mitten.  Very strange, but I thought it was pretty cool.

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Elderly people still madly in love melts my heart every time.  Meet Marcia and Seymour (what great names!):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104979771

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According to Mr. C-S, eating cheese before you go to bed results in crazy dreams.  Huh...I'll have to look into this.

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NPR's "Summer Reading 2009": 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104067703

I remember last Spring I wrote a "Summer Reading" article for UVM's newspaper, The Cynic.  I spent a week carefully selecting books that [hopefully] would appeal to a range of people...writing out 50-100 word descriptions for each, carefully crafting my synopsis, etc.  At the same time, the paper had asked me to do a piece on long-boarding and how we were seeing many more girls on campus w/ longboards/skateboards than any other year.  Of course, for this article, I strolled around campus for about 20 min., interviewed about 5 males/females and chalked the article off in the 10 min. before it was due.  MUCH to my dismay, they took the longboard article and chopped out the summer reading piece because it was too long and intricate.  Ugh.

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I can't believe I won't be able to go to this...

http://www.poets.org/viewevent.php/prmEventID/7860

...but it's ok, because where I am going is pretty magical, too

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I WILL, sur l'autre main, be going to this:

http://www.poets.org/viewevent.php/prmEventID/7861

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Paul Miller (DJ Spooky)'s remix of D.W. Griffith's "Birth of a Nation"?! WHAT?!  I can still feel the first time I saw that film and I am eager to experience it in a new way.  Going. To. Be. Awesome:

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/967?tmam_intro4

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I am going to go out into the day!

xo

Looking at the Sky

Tree prints...

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If you were in any way involved with BEA this past weekend, or are just curious about the wild world of publishing and this annual convention, you must read this hilarious article on how to be inappropriate at BEA...so good:

http://therumpus.net/2009/05/how-to-be-inappropriate-a-bookexpo-america-guide/

Here are some select parts I'd like to share:

Selected Factor Loadings of Specific Inappropriate Behaviors of Four Inviolable Proscriptive Norms at BookExpo America

Comments, Sexual and/or Non-Predatory

Q65 “Creepy” brush of hand atop young publicist’s buttocks: skirt.
Q66 “Hug-and-Tug” atop the oblique depression above young publicist’s buttocks.


Intrusive Interpersonal Behavior

Q77 “Close talking” with coffee breath.
Q78 “Close talking” without coffee breath.
Q79 “Close talking” on microphone at plenary discussion; see Q81 Plosives.
Q101 Use “Colonel Klink accent” exclusively in International Rights Center.
Q129 Leave freebies from publisher A on publisher B’s table.

Regarding Learned Helplessness at BEA

We know from the literature that mice, when placed in a Zero Maze, experience an increase in thigmotactic and locomotive anxiety levels. Recent research indicates that manipulating the D2R and D2L dopamine receptors play a prominent role in mediating emotional response to novelty and inescapable stress.

In a similar way, conventioneers wend their way through the Javits Center or are placed in eight-by-ten-foot booths experience a “learned helplessness”—a kind behavior that can be broken down into the categories of “desperate looks” and “grooming deterioration.”

Public and Private Flatulence

Q11 “Crop dusting” Left Behind Books/or Tyndale House Publishers booths.

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More another day, just wanted to share that!