PLANET OF PERIL (51)
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MEDIA DIET
Annalee Newitz on: paperbacks, “Interview with the Vampire,” 404Media.
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Bruce Dickinson
With the ouster of original vocalist Paul Di’Anno and the hiring of BRUCE DICKINSON (born 1958) just before the release of their immortal third...
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06th
Aug
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Farber Schwartzen
LONG BEFORE PRISON, Martha Stewart proposed and then dropped a plan to endow the Martha Stewart Professorship in Home Economics at the Harvard Business...
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06th
Aug
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Michelle Yeoh
Most Western filmgoers didn’t discover the greatest female action star in the history of film until Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — or when she...
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06th
Aug
Aug
1854-63: Plutonians
The 1854-63 cohort are spelunkers, in search of deep truths.
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05th
Aug
Aug
On the difficulty of identifying Hilobrows
Nobrows are easily recognized, for their gait is dancing and bold. But HiLobrows frequently deceive one because their bearing is curiously like that of...
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05th
Aug
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Paranoid Theory: The Ape That’s All Wet
Elaine Morgan is a Welsh screen writer whose credits include Dr Finlay’s Casebook and How Green Was My Valley. But for more than thirty...
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05th
Aug
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Wendell Berry
As a kid, my upbringing pulled me in divergent directions: on my mother’s side, an urban technophile Jewishness (inspired, in part by her own...
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04th
Aug
Aug
Comedy and the Death of God
Hey, PhD students looking for a thesis topic — here’s a freebie. These sketchy notes are inspired by a B&N.com review of Thomas Pynchon’s...
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