Bites: Bolaño and Borges, Nin on LSD, Nick Cave Photoshopped, the Greatest Metal Tour EVER, and More

I’ve loved just about every installment of “What Bolaño Read” over at MobyLives.  Today, the late Chilean writers fondness for Jorge Luis Borges.

Lit.

• Anais Nin on LSD’s value at Arthur.

I only wished people had had time to study drugs as they studied religion or philosophy and to adapt to this chemical alteration of our bodies.

• Token magical realism “seems not just forced, but fashionable” says Alastair Harper of the Guardian.

• Go on over to My Old Kentucky Blog, look at the photoshopped pictures of Nick Cave, and then try to win a autographed copy of The Death of Bunny Munro.

• The Faster Times gives us a roundup of all the David Foster Wallace news going around.

• The Fanzine on Derek McCormack.

• The “Shalom in the Home” guy has a story to tell about hanging out with Michael Jackson.

Music.

• Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, AND Megadeath on tour TOGETHER.
  

• The Daily Beast on ailing French rocker, Johnny Hallyday.

• L Magazine hit it right on the head with “Kris Kristoferson is Better Than Animal Collective“.

• The problem with feminist anthems.

More evidence that we’re screwed.

• On the Time Person of the Year: “The winner is Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the most powerful, least understood government force shaping our lives”.

• Police beating up on protesters in Copenhagen.

• The IDF apparently not fond of Apple.

Peace out.

• The Awl give their own special tribute to Oral Roberts.