sunday short stack

"I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things." - Franz Kafka

• The Second Pass makes some layoffs from the canon, including White Noise and A Tale of Two Cities.
• The 15 Ugliest Pieces of Furniture and The 10 Geekiest Pieces of Furniture in the Universe
  
• The Pool Movies That Ruined a Generation's Greatest Directors
• Lego Escher
• Jacket Copy lists 61 essential postmodern reads (with helpful typographic legend).
• Which crazy writer are you? (I'm Thomas Pynchon.)
• Of Potter and Proust
• A new element discovered last month has been named Copernicium (Cp).
• Obama to Bono: Nice job with the Bush hug dodge.
  
• Listen to The Dead Weather's Horehound. Jack White totally hogged the talent distribution line.