- Who’s excited about the Dick Cheney memoirs? Anybody? Anybody? Awww come on, I heard there is an entire chapter dedicated to the time he waterboarded himself on accident.
- “Jack Kirby didn’t get to be an intellectual.” — Warren Ellis on the late Marvel Comics artist/writer/genius Jack Kirby
- I didn’t even realize that Lowbrow Reader was still around, and I won’t complain. Thanks HTMLGIANT
- I was seriously worried that John Darnielle had dropped off the face of the earth, but he is back, and talking about “good weird black metal.“
- NYTimes talk about the drinks of summer. This is necessary reading, especially since the opening word is “agave.”