sunday short stack

"There's something so showy about desperation; it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk." - Elizabeth Bowen

• Sylvia Plath's been busy this week, marking up her copy of The Great Gatsby and publishing a new poem (via Maud Newton).
• Napster launches a new "free download of the day" from bands you've never heard of.
• How rich are you?
• What will your obituary say? If I do die laughing hysterically, that would be incredible (via rockslinga).
• Famous fans pick their favorite Clash song (via Wit of the Staircase).
• This amazing Carnegie Mellon computer turns photos into 3D.
• Prescription drug or metal band?
• There may be hope for a Sex and the City movie after all (via LAist).
• The New Yorker asks various folks what they've got on their night stand (via Campaign for the American Reader).
• If, like me, you find a little bit of Lorrie Moore isn't enough, there's also a new story: "It had been a year since Rafe kissed her. She sort of cared and sort of didn’t. A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: choosing the best unhappiness. An unwise move and, good God, you could squander everything."
• QuitMeter is indispensible if you're a smoker trying to quit.
• Neatorama offers inventions for lazy people and uncovers lies your mother told you.
• Pure class.
• MySpace has new Damien Rice songs.
• The Oxford University Press blog covers it all this week: slow food, the etymology of slang, the ever changing names of Indian cities, and the history of John Henry, just to mention the posts I liked.

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