Sunday Shards: “The Journalistic Whoha Edition”
On my mind and in the Weekend-trip-tp-the-gym reading queue…
*The Grups article everybody’s yapping about (via Matt Haughy).
*Slate sees Lou Dobbs going batshit as the beginning of the end of objectivity in journalism.
*Salon interview with Michael Pollan about his new book The Omnivore’s Dilemma where he looks at the enivronmental and social impact of our favorite sorts of meals.
*There’s a generational change happening in the upper reaches of America’s elite magazines. The new editors of the New Republic, The Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly and Harper’s are all under 40 white males. So perhaps its not that radica l (via Arts Journal).
*Molly Ivins rips Tom DeLay a well-deserved new one.
*How to make yourself miserable as an artist. Sound advice (via Willo).
*I <--heart--> point and click games.
*All Over Coffee is one gorgeous cartoon.
*As jealous as I am that the Hot Docs Film Festival is going on in Toronto right now, our own San Francisco International Film Festival is right around the corner. Yay! (via Consolation Champs).