Sunday Morning Shards #6
The “sated” edition…
NPR Ombudsman declares that “Blogs Have Arrived.” He’s only about three years too late (via Romanesko).
Molly Ivins reports from tiny Mason, Texas on how the real sufferer in this presidential election is healthy disagreement. On both sides.
2005 Nominees to the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame include U2 (duh), Lynyrd Skynyrd (they’re not there already?), Patti Smith (about time), Iggy Pop and the Stooges (overdue), The Sex Pistols (hmmm), and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (well now!).
A fantastic interview with Chris Jackson, senior editor at Crown Books, one of the youngest and highest ranking editors of color in New York. Part of the brilliant new black literary arts site The BackList (via CantStopWontStop).
Get a t-shirt with your favorite spam message printed on it (via DanSays).
Drinking Liberally is a weekly conversation salon for left-minded individuals. Swigging nationwide at a watering hole near you (via my buddy Nina).
Forbes’s 400 richest Americans. Bill Gates is still top banana. Google’s founders appear for the first time. I wonder if this is why they went public (via Davenetics).
A new biopic on the last days of Hitler, as Berlin is falling to the allies. Even the Jerusalem Post said this, in their review “It is a human Hitler, yes, but still not a likable one. And that was the intent of the filmmakers”
60 things you might not have known about Leonard Cohen. What an interesting guy.
Why the 20-year-old Boston Film Festival is a podunk wannabe compared to others like it (via ArtsJournal).
I still understand what wiki’s are.