sunday short stack

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it." - Montaigne

• Bloomberg previews the big books of October: Ford, Eggers, Powers, O'Brien, Oates, Busch, and Bradbury, among others (via The Elegant Variation).
• You can buy a recording of Vashti Bunyan's performance at The Echo last month.
• Extreme Ironing: "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt" (thanks to NL).
• This collection of found grocery lists is a small portrait of consumer folly and human need (via The Toilet Paper Blog).
• Congressional pages: "Stop settling for the first Representative that comes along and sends you some dirty emails."
• Barbara Ehrenreich describes the origins of United Professionals, an organization to "provide support and advocacy for the unemployed, underemployed and anxiously employed."
• Terry Gilliam will direct films for food (via Linsdayism).
• With Capote doppleganger Infamous opening this Friday, director Douglas McGrath begs your indulgence.
• The New York Sun digs deep into the social heirarchy underground at play in the city's subway system (via Idolator).
  

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