Every single time I pass the White Horse Saloon in the West Village, I always say to myself, “That’s where Dylan Thomas drank 200 shots of hooch and died.  Maybe I should hang out there.”  Then I walk in, and it’s filled with frat dudes drinking sugar free Red Bull and vodkas, talking about how “sick” Jeter’s new car commercial looks.  I’m tired of that being the building that makes me think of Mr. Thomas, and I’m glad Writers Houses posted pictures of his boathouse in the UK, so I can now at least mentally conjure up another building when I think of the late poet.

• Ben Greenman gives us the Hurricane Irene edition graph over at McSweeney’s.

• Mark Yarm’s “oral history of grunge,” Everybody Loves Our Town, will have its New York release party early next month at the powerHouse Arena.

• Somebody didn’t expect Rachel Kramer Bussel to get up on stage and say dirty things.  Oh how surprised they were..

• Darin Strauss on Israel.

• Letters that W.B. Yeats wrote to his wife.

• Here with what might be a different perspective on that is Simon Reynolds.

• At Flavorwire, Tom Hawking looks at the best rarities albums out there.