Marjane Satrapi (illustrator, and author of book and movie Persepolis) and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, presented a document that states that “liberal cleric and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi came second in the election with a total of 13.3 million votes, while president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came third with only 5.49 million votes” according to this site.
- You don’t know it yet, but you new favorite blog is “Awful Library Books“
- The New Yorker begs the question, “how many of you would have gone to (or stayed in) graduate school if you could have majored in “Big Lebowski” studies?”
- The only way you can write an essay on Proust, is if you write a really long (but good) one
- Douglas Rushkoff with both SMITH and Arthur Mag? This sounds like a party!
- I was think that the yearly Siren Fest presented by the Village Voice was going to suck (with the exception of Built to Spill), but then they announced the final lineup, and I was sold.
- Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear covering doomed 70’s folkie Judee Sill on MOKB