*Books: Bob Dylan signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to write six more books. I liked Chronicles: Volume 1 a LOT more than I thought I would.
*Questions: Is Kanye West the Don Draper of hip-hop? Also, who is the Al Swearingen of R&B? [fluxtumblr]
*Feelings: If you have been wondering about who the 50 Most Loathsome People in America are this year, Buffalo Beast offers up their opinion.
*Advertising: It seems like Unevolved Brands should be called Unevolved Logos or Unevolved Visual Identities. But maybe I pick unnecessarily? Go there, and you can attempt to identify companies based on their distilled brand identities. [joshspear]
*Shows: You can watch the entirety of an episode of Austin City Limits that features Band of Horses and The National here.
*Blogs: There’s a new music blog in the world. It’s called PopDust. Here’s what the New York Times says about it. BIEBER.
*Cycling: Geneviève Bujold steals the spotlight in this tumblr of celebrities riding bikes. And I don’t even know who Geneviève Bujold is.
*Twitter: These tweets are all pretty good.
*Today’s links: F.
Girl Talk’s “Night Ripper” v. “All Day”
[waxy]
Life:
Art:
I have a blog-memory like a fucking elephant. Except for that Cloud Cult video I double-posted a couple weeks back. Ugh.
*Headline: “In Florida’s Prison System, Honey Buns Are the Ultimate Comfort Food.” I just wanted to type honey buns.
*LINKING: You can now link to specific sentences within New York Times articles. Using this thing, which they are calling Emphasis, I am attempting to send you to the first sentence of the fourth paragraph of an article in the New York Times telling you how to do this. (It may not work.)
*Food: I want to eat the shit out of this cake. REAL BAD. (The artist is Amy Stevens.)
*Images: Coudal linked to this gorgeous “Attribute Portrait #3″ by Jelmar Geertsma earlier. Nice, no? (Here are some less attractive cakes that look like human heads.)
*Local: According to The Advocate, Minneapolis is the gayest city in the country. Very interesting! For instance, I didn’t know Minneapolis had a thriving bear community before reading this!
*Blogs: Wow. Worldchanging kicked the bucket?
*Video: Sorry for the lack of embed, but here’s Iron and Wine performing “Tree By the River” for Daytrotter. Seriously; I feel pretty terrible about the no embedding thing.
*Tests: How musical are you? For what it’s worth, I don’t know how musical I am. Also, I feel like some kind of Facebook quiz asshole right now?
*Today’s links: F.
What the hell is a trebuchet, anyway?
You’ve probably already seen it, but this is the Minnesota Death Star.
You had me at “SEO-like predictive algorithm jacked directly into my RSS feed.”
