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.