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A Writer’s Diary Entries From Mid-August, 1988

She said I should be very pleased about getting the grant because NYSCA approved only 18 of 44 applicants. The grant amount is $3750, to be distributed at the middle and end of the residency period. . . Just when I was once again telling myself to give up on my writing career, I get word I shouldn't.

“Undercover” — Conversations over Stolen Food, Pt. 2 of 4

If we eat things before we exit can no one call…catch us? There’s habeas corpus but there’s something else. Body of evidence? Doesn’t physical evidence need to exist of the event? So long as we consume all evidence perhaps nothing can be done to us.

“Big League Chew” — Conversations over Stolen Food, Pt. 3 of 4

This afternoon Amanda offered me gum, and I hadn’t chewed gum in a long, long time. I ran through my history with chewing gum. When my sister and I played whiffle-ball on the front driveway, using our garage-door as backstop, I’d pack roughly a third...

“Maniacal Grace” — Conversations over Stolen Food, Pt. 4 of 4

If I had hesitated (for example to tie my shoe) I’m sure we would have collided. She’d counted on the continuity of my my movement. I took part in mathematics of the most complex kind.

“W.F.” — Conversations over Stolen Food, Pt. 1 of 4

We ( Jon Cotner , Andy Fitch ) recorded forty-five-minute conversations for thirty straight days around New York City. Half these talks took place at a Union Square health-food store which, for legal reasons, we call “W.F.”

Best Coast: Crazy For You

Thus, the Best Coast story updates another age-old 60s concept outside of their music: pop-star mythmaking. Cosentino has crafted an unstoppably distinct web persona—bubbling with character, her online presence is why so many feel they can relate to her. She talks about everything from the Jersey Shore and Miley Cyrus to the Descendents and smoking tons of weed.

Ratatat Live at Tulane University (9.30.2010)

They go: “Bars are fun, and Bourbon Street.” Ratatat goes: “Bars?” and gives them a dirty look. They say: “Maybe the French quarter.” Ratatat goes: “Why don't you guys throw a party?” The girls look embarrassed and skeptical.

Shaquille O’Neal Has a Twitter Account and is Friends With Justin Bieber

Shaquille O'Neal not only knows how to use a computer, but also appears to have figured out the sequence of events required for using Twitter and, among other actions, retweeting and replying to tweets...

Western Civilization Has Replaced the Post Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Genre: August

There's a new bill in the US Senate called the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 which, if passed, will prohibit the public from growing its own food.

Global Warming Currently Destroying Los Angeles; Western Society Continues its Steady Breakdown

Downtown LA in the hottest heatwave ever, Mexico seems bleak, a shooting in Boston, the owner of Segway, Inc. drives his Segway off a cliff and dies, a man commits suicide with an AK-47 at the UT Austin library and a bleak earth keeps turning.