sunday short stack

"The bear must deal with 20 obstacles, and each one of them involves pears, because the bear adores pears." - Sufi proverb

• #shortstacksunday was a trending topic on Twitter for a brief time yesterday, and I got all excited. It turns out it was an IHOP promotion. (And just to show how much Apple has permeated our culture/my brain, I initially typed that as iHop.)
• Listen to the new Noah & the Whale album at NPR.
• The 38 Essential Los Angeles Restaurants (Eater LA)
• Flavorwire chooses the defining romance flick of each decade, from Casablanca to When Harry Met Sally.
• The Top 10 Most Depressing Books (Abe Books)
• I love this song and I am being thwarted by international downloading restrictions.
• Ladbrokes has odds up for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature (to be announced October 8). Amos Oz leads with odds of 4/1.
• The 10 Worst Movies of the 2000s (Complex.com)
• The Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Fall 2009 (but visit largehearted boy's Try It Before You Buy It every week).
• While you're over at Pitchfork, you can also check out the recently released Top 20 of the Top 200 Albums of the 2000s.
• The Top 10 Worst Movie Accents of All Time (Paste)
• Salon has a roundup of Polanski reactions around the web.