sunday short stack
"One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty."
- Maxim Gorky
- New favorite io9 provides five alternate histories for New York City.
- Meanwhile, Los Angeles wins the Wallpaper Design Award for Best City.
- Bear with me for a moment...
- Julia Burchill advocates a return of the "fun-loving, red-blooded bitch."
- This one's for RMM - The Clean: Live at Other Music
- The National Book Critics Circle announces the 2007 awards finalists.
- Times Square in the '70s or your spam folder?
- I have a feeling Billy the Kid will break my heart.
- Chicago Sun-Times: The WGA strike reveals the lack of women writers in Hollywood.
- From the publishers of the lovely Caroline Tiger's book How to Behave: Dating and Sex comes the new instructional guide by Dategirl Judy McGuire: How Not to Date.
- I think describing anyone's music as "if Patsy Cline were the lead singer for The Shangri-Las" is a surefire set-up for disappointment, if not outright sacrilege.