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Lilacina — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:02:00 +0000

Hooray! This magazine was my first online love. Now, if only Open Letters would make a reappearance. Oh how I adored those printable PDFs with their sweet little New Yorker-like illustrations at the tops of the pages. Always thought I’d do my own printable mag someday, but iPad makes the idea seem a little antiquated. Maybe will save for the day when paper goes retro chic. (Or perhaps it already has?)

This is a video trailer for a book (a book I think I’d…

Lilacina — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:44:40 +0000

This is a video trailer for a book (a book I think I’d like to read).

Diary of a Very Bad Year (via OliveTV)

Books and lists

Lilacina — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:05:48 +0000

I promised myself at the beginning of this year I’d pick back up on my book reading. God knows I read a TON most every day of the year, but lately it’s more short-form than long, more utilitarian than adventurous. (Note to self: this would be a good point to mention that Nicholas Carr book. You know, the one about short and longform reading, attention and intellect. The one you keep reading, um, tweets about.)

ANYway, I just finished a book today and feel like making a list. So. Books read in 2010 (so far):

1. Catcher in the Rye. (A re-read, on the occasion of Salinger’s passing.)

2. And Then There’s This, by Bill Wasik.

3. The Manual of Detection, by Jedediah Berry

4. The Ask, by Sam Lipsyte

5. Citrus County, by John Brandon (Rumpus book club selection!)

Quite a few others are on the not-yet-and-possibly-never-finished list. Such as the new Jonathan Lethem, which I want badly to love but can’t really. And Jonah Lehrer’s “How We Decide,” which I might finish, but also kinda think the first 100 pages are enough, you know?

Next up: whatever comes in the mail from Rumpus, and First Stop in the New World, a history of Mexico City.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13)

Lilacina — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:14:59 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Fascinating: blue dots indicate local photogs, red ones are…

Lilacina — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:36:53 +0000

Fascinating: blue dots indicate local photogs, red ones are tourists. (via Coudal)

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6)

Lilacina — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:42:31 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23)

Lilacina — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:20:50 +0000

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

A Moment in Time

Lilacina — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:59:18 +0000

A Moment in Time:

Oh, it’s ON.

thebigcaption: Yoga Fire original

Lilacina — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:42:46 +0000

thebigcaption:

Yoga Fire

original

slow learner: Mapping the Demographics of American English with Twitter

Lilacina — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:45:40 +0000

slow learner: Mapping the Demographics of American English with Twitter:

Absolutely amazing post courtesy of David Bamman at The Language Log.

It took me a while to really make sense of Twitter. For the longest time, it was (to me) the stomping ground of 14-year-olds and Ashton Kutcher, each issuing a minute-by-minute feed of their lives. Around the time…