- McSweeney’s has bestowed upon us an excerpt from the upcoming Dave Eggers novel Zeitoun. People are happy, and I’m sure some people could care less. We are not part of the latter crowd.
- Gawker talks to the Editor-At-Large of the new “Huffington Post meets Gawker” website, Mediaite. Is this what happens when worlds collide? Nah. It’s more on the awkward side, especially when Gawker mentions there might be a “conflict of interest in having a media advisory firm attached to a media website.” Uhhhh, yeh? Maybe just a tiny bit?
- Our buddy (and Vol. 1 Story Series host) Dreidel Hustler asks the question that has been on our minds for years, “whatever happened to Lamar from Revenge of the Nerds?”
- Bowerbirds sophmore album, Upper Air, is out this week. Pretty excited considering that last years Hymns for a Dark Horse was one of 2008’s finest. Here is the first single, “Northern Lights“