Morning Bites: The Girl With The Wagner Tattoo, Talking Moby-Dick, coffee goes up, and more

The WQXR blog asks: “Is the Vanger family in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo based on the family of Richard Wagner and his descendants” after an LA Times article points out the similarities. Ray Bradbury, Tony Kushner, Laurie Anderson and Frank Stella talk Moby-Dick on a rerun of Studio 360’s “American Icons” series. What do Jami Attenberg and Wal-Mart have in common? New York Starbucks coffee to go up ten cents. D’Angelo covering Soundgarden is the sound of babies being […]

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Dick Watching: The Dart

Image: Jackson Pollock, “Blue (Moby Dick)”, c. 1943. Ahoy Dick Lovers and Dick Watchers. It’s everyone’s favorite time of the week. It’s Friday. It’s also Dick Watching Day, so shall we go Dick Watching? Huzzah! All a-board, please!

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Dick Watching: The Musket

Posted by Juliet Linderman Hey dudes and dudettes, ladies and germs, cetaceans and crustaceans, and welcome back to Dick Watching on Vol. 1, where we bring you a boatload of news about wonderful, wonderful whales. You guys ready to take the plunge?

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Dick Watching: The Nut

Posted by Juliet Linderman Good day, dudes and dudettes and welcome to this week’s edition of Dick Watching. Won’t you climb up to the crow’s nest and come Dick Watching with me? You will? Fantastic! Let’s go! 1. Tommy Lee loves drugs, and sex, tasteless tattoos and women with fake boobs. Also, leather pants. He also really loves whales. He recently penned an astoundingly bizarre open letter to SeaWorld in Florida condemning their treatment of Tillikum, a killer whale that […]

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Dick Watching: Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish? Will He Perish?

Hey there Dicksters, and welcome to this week’s Dick Watching. You might notice that it is, unfortunately, NOT Friday. It’s true: we’ve re-arranged things here at Vol. 1, so instead of a week-ender, you can look forward to your favorite sea-themed link list to brighten up your work week instead. Let’s get to it, shall we? And we’re off! 1. As a fair-skinned, blonde-haired girl I know as well as anyone how much getting sunburned sucks. So, I feel the […]

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