NPR recently did an interview with Paul Auster about his new book The Brooklyn Follies. I still need to read The New York Trilogy. While doing my senior thesis a few years back a friend did his on that book and ever since I've been meaning to pick it up.
Jane Espenson
Jane Espenson, who I've previously blogged about, has a blog up on her website. I really like Jane; not only has she written for two of my favorite shows, but she also seems to be a really cool person too.
That's Correct
Yesterday I sat down and read Kurt Vonnegut's latest book A Man Without A Country. I'd read most of it before; the majority of the book is taken from his writing for In These Times. However, reading through the book reminded how much I enjoy Vonnegut. It's probably a pretty sad state of affairs when one of the people I relate to most is sixty years my senior.
Anyhow, here is an excerpt from the book.
Firefox 1.5
With the release of Firefox 1.5 I have updated my extensions. I've also linked to them in my furl archive. If you're a Firefox user already, or new to it, check them out.
Video Game Ads
Via Boing Boing, here is a group of 1982 video game advertisements assembled on Flickr.
Zines 101
A library in Oregon is doing a workshop for high school kids entitled “Zines 101.” How cool is that? I wish when I was scamming photocopies and trying to learn how to cut in a straight line that the local library would have been doing workshops to help me out!
The Pro Life Movement Summed Up Perfectly
Steve Almond sums up the pro-life movement perfectly:
The problem is that unborn children eventually get born and must live in the actual world. In this sense, "pro-lifers" are like the baby daddies of the spiritual world: full of promised love for the abstraction, and nowhere to be found when the kid shows up. They don't want to deal with the fact that some children in this country grow up starved of love, and warped by poverty. . . .
In the weeks to come, the usual pro-choice suspects will dutifully argue on behalf of a woman's rights to choose. That's not going to be enough. The leadership of the left has to recognize that those who oppose choice are not simply benighted crusaders, but bullies who are exploiting the abortion issue to exalt their pathologies.