sunday short stack

"It is the answering of life with more questions and doubt — endlessly promising and ceaselessly terrorizing." - McKay McFadden

• Aristophanes says, "Today's audiences just don't get me."
• Christopher Hitchens probably says, "Today's women just don't get me."
• Q: Why are all those people standing around in the foreground gaping at this spectacle? A: Eyesore of the Month (via terra non firma)
• Activate has a bat with a longer tongue than Gene Simmons and the top 10 bars of the world.
• Only click through if you have oodles of time: Top 50 Music Videos of 2006 (via Ed)
• Malcolm Gladwell attempts to define racism.
• The compilers of this list of the Best Blogs of 2006 are correct that I indeed may not be reading them, except 3quarksdaily, of course, which is where I found the link.
• And see the madman in the red suit!: Poems That Were Considered and Rejected Before 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Was Established as "The Official American Christmas Poem"
• Bookslut offers The Best Book Covers of 2006.
• My puss is the best on the block; your puss invaded Iraq (also via Bookslut).
• Mary Gaitskill reflects on Lolita and AS Byatt reflects on Willa Cather.
• The sex columnist for the Seattle Weekly is looking for your bad date stories.
• Christians Urge Mary Cheney to Abort Her Baby (via Stay Free!)