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Music Video for Jookabox’s “You Cried Me”

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The ecsta­tic acoustic freak-out of the newest release from Asthmatic Kitty pairs so oddly and won­der­fully with the goofy, lo-fi car­toon hor­ror story that is the video. One time through and you’ll be stomp­ing along, plan­ning for that next work break when you can sneak in another go.

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Pledge Week

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Nothing will get you out the door and through your com­mute faster than run­ning away from a local pub­lic radio sta­tion hold­ing the news hostage. Please, give them your money so we can at least hear the headlines.

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MoreNewMath​.Com

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We’re not sure how long Craig Damrauer’s been dis­till­ing life’s mys­tery down into equa­tions both amus­ing and insightful—“Brunch = Breakfast + Lunch + Cantaloupe” or “Paternity = What? + Are you sure?”—but we really hope it con­tin­ues for a long time.

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The Front Range

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I think two feet of snow in October is an excel­lent rea­son for every­one to spend some time liv­ing on the front range. It’s sixty degrees outside.

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Literary Bed-fellows

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Maybe a dozen times I have slept in the same bed as Longfellow, Jewett, and Whittier. Where? At Sylvester Manor (Shelter Island, NY) in the Poets Room out­side of which a ghost was recently spot­ted mid­day by Andrew, one of the farm hands. No lie.

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The WILLA Wiki List

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“Women in Letters and Literary Arts started The WILLA List to note great books by women that Publishers Weekly missed in 2009.” The PW 2009 Top Ten was all male; this is an unranked top cou­ple hun­dred in fic­tion, poetry, non­fic­tion, and children’s/young adult to help bal­ance things out some. Start putting together your hol­i­day shop­ping list right here.

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Momofuku

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The cook­book, not the iconic East Village restau­rant. David Chang and Peter Meehan have writ­ten an engag­ing, funny, inter­est­ing cook­book with a nar­ra­tive and a point of view; Gabriele Stabile’s pho­tog­ra­phy is breath­tak­ing and func­tional; the design­ers at Clarkson Potter have made it all look amaz­ing (the typog­ra­phy choices alone are worth a shout out). This is a rar­ity: a cook­book that is both prac­ti­cal (i.e., you can cook this food in your kitchen right now, foodie or not) and an object wor­thy of display.

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Juliet, Naked

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You don’t need us to tell you about Nick Hornby. But we will say this: every­thing we’ve ever liked about his pre­vi­ous books—the music in-jokes, the skill­ful treat­ment of mul­ti­ple points of view, parent-child rela­tion­ships, the com­pli­cated mess of adult rela­tion­ships, the simul­ta­ne­ous and equally nuanced indict­ment and sup­port of pop­u­lar cul­ture and those who love it, the sub­tle humor and real pathos—all of it is, at last, hap­pen­ing together, in har­mony, in this newest novel.

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Hydrangeas

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The blooms are just now turn­ing pink from the light­est green; in all the rain and drear of October, these heavy flow­ers remind me of sun and soft wind. They could get me through winter.

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Bubble Tea

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If I’m going to drink a highly-fructosed, caf­feinated bev­er­age, it bet­ter be chewy. That’s just how I roll.