sunday short stack

"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words."
- Roland Barthes

• Tom Waits on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour: I particularly like the Jewish curses.
• Barbara Ehrenreich tells Berkeley journalism grads at their commencement: "You have abundant skills and talents - it's just not clear that anyone wants to pay you for them."
• I want these panthers to be real.
• An indie label posts mind-melting demo disasters. (via @jonfine)
• 10 Myths About Writers
• Wired/Bruce Sterling offers eighteen challenges in contemporary literature.
• 5 Bad Songs Made Good, 5 Good Songs Made Bad
• I still miss the sticker that was on my old car when I sold it. I think I'll need to get the T-shirt version.