Fat Cactus
JA
June 12
This week on the interwebs:
In response to the New Yorker’s ‘20 Under 40’ list, blog Ward Six has announced its list of ‘Ten Over 80’
Keanu Reeves is apparently a really really nice guy
Are you caring for your introvert? How about your inner online introvert?
Steven Amsterdam’s Things We Didn’t See Coming gets some love over at The Millions
We learn how to break up with books
Kazuo Ishiguro defends the use of the cliche
And Slate muses on the greatness of gin.
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- Andrew McDonald
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- Read, Think, Write
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- Tom Cho
- Virgule
- Wet Ink
- Wheeler Centre
Comments
12 Jun 10 at 7:27
thank you for that link to the ten over 80 (and thank you again for the words fat cactus which are making me laugh way more than I think it should)
...12 Jun 10 at 10:09
No worries. (Plus it still makes me chuckle too).
...13 Jun 10 at 0:22
Also, apologies for poorly constructed sentence with disagreeing singular and plurals…it was that kind of day.
...14 Jun 10 at 9:30
All good – we’re not sticklers here.
...15 Jun 10 at 13:03
I enjoyed the Keanu Reeves anecdotes :–) And I found this interesting table of artists' day jobs while lunchtime browsing, thought I’d share – http://laphamsquarterly.org/visual/charts-graphs/?page=71
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