February 2012
Watch(via Watch Lou Reed Sing ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ — Vulture)
An odd combination of two of my favorite musicians of all time. Lou can still bring it.
More awesome New York Times corrections →
Correction: February 3, 2012
An earlier version of this article misspelled part of the name of the “Star Wars” character Jabba the Hutt. It is Hutt, not Hut.
I remember how all the people at the newspaper I used to worked for when the prequels came out laughed at me when I put together a Star Wars style sheet. Who’s laughing now?
“Newsarama, iFanboy, CBR, The Beat, Multiversity, MTVGeek – all of these sites...”
– Sean Witzke, “this is a collaborative medium”. | supervillain.
I will never understand fan community and its elevation of the character over the creator, as if these stories have no authors behind them. It’s the response of a child who only cares about his or her own gratification.
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“The moment you say, a male American writer can’t write about a female Pakistani,...”
– The Storytellers of Empire By Kamila Shamsie (via mollycrabapple)
January 2012
“America innovates every day, in a myriad of fields. The field of metamaterials,...”
– Warren Ellis. (via twiststreet)
