Sunday Morning Shards:

The “Better Late Than Never” edition:

The soundtrack to Amandla is simply beautiful, like cry-in-your-car-on-the-way-home-from-the-movies beautiful.

Geoff Nunbe, who does the commentaries about language on Fresh Air has compiled these mini-essays into a book called Going Nucular which makes an excellent subway book.

I went to high school with this women. What a list of accomplishments!

A really interesting roundtable discussion on MP3 blogs.

Art Papers may be the art magazine I’m looking for. It’s seems national and not just New York in focus, clear-eyed and not needlessly theoretical and run as a nonprofit.

I’m trying to figure out how Barter Bee works. It sure seems like an interesting concept.

I’m nearing the homestretch on my book and feeling great about it.

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