sunday short stack

"I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself." - Agatha Christie

• California historian J.S. Holliday (The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience; Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California) has died in Carmel at the age of 82. Ghost Word links to Holliday's archived lectures at the Bancroft Library.
• The San Francisco Chronicle previews the fall fiction season.
• Ed Champion points to video of Woody Allen interviewing Billy Graham.
• Kim Cooper's research for "The Horrifying, Bizarre, Unnatural History of Sunset Junction" is kickass (via LA Brain Terrain).
• Order a subscription to Good Magazine and 100% of your money goes to the charity of your choice while you get writing from Neal Pollack and Gary Shteyngart (via Toilet Paper Blog).
• Salon's Audiofile serves up a selection of BBQ mixes.
• Slate provides an overview of the new generation of gypsy music.
• If you have any photos that match the theme "Why They Hate US," upload them to stay free! daily's new Flickr project.
• CUNY's Hunter College has settled with a student whose suicide attempt led to her dorm expulsion for "violating the housing contract."
• USC's Brad Pasanek has compiled a database of eighteenth-century metaphors of mind (via boing boing).
• Holly Myers looks at the death trilogy of Gus Van Sant in n+1.
• This secretive Bansky warehouse event in LA appears unmissable.