One Night Stanzas

Cup of tea + toast and nutella + Friday + these lovely links = procrastination perfection.

“If a customer tells me she’s looking for a book by a man and there’s a girl in it but she can’t remember the author or the title, I give her Lolita. If she’s looking for “that popular book about the animals”: Animal Farm. “That controversial book my book club is reading”: The Autobiography of Malcolm X. “The book with a red cover and the word ‘the’ in the title”: The Joy of Sex. I’m a bookseller, not a magician. My dark-framed glasses and skinny jeans possess only so much magic.” If you read nothing else today, read Bookseller I Would Like To F***.

Huge congrats to Jen Campbell for successfully completing her 100 Poem Challenge in aid of EEC Syndrome sufferers. You can read all 100 poems, and donate, here. I think my favourite of the bunch might have been this one, number 52.

New poetry from ONS favourite Kerri Ni Dochartaigh.

“He left me with a copy of Kerouac’s The Subterraneans. Inside the front cover he has inscribed, ‘to Pocahontas , living in a clusterfuck’.”
Readers remember their loves, lost and found, through books.

I loved this new(ish) concrete piece from Stephen Nelson.

A new, feminist, indie bookstore/publisher? Yay for Emily Books!

The world needs more graffiti like this.

“The length of a network TV drama (usually 44 minutes of actual show, once you count out the commercials) makes me wonder if poetry readings are somehow timed by television or other popular forms.” Jake Adam York on timing your poetry readings.

Thanks Mandy, graphic designer extraordinaire for sending me in the direction of this hot typewriter tattoo!

One of my superheroines, Michelle Obama, is publishing a book next year!
“This book is Mrs. Obama’s first, and her goal is to use the story of the White House kitchen garden. She will continue her quest for Americans to understand how increased access to healthy, affordable food can promote better eating habits and improve health of families and communities across America.”

Were YOUR parents ever this cool about Halloween?

Thanks to Julian, I discovered that my name is also a Google Easter Egg! (May not work in IE, sorry…)

I’ve always wanted to go to Vegas… to visit the neon boneyard.

This massive Mucha mural is bloody gorgeous!

This look at glossy celebrity photoshoots before and after Photoshop is fascinating and disturbing.

This is a baby aardwolf. You’re welcome.

Have a great weekend!

(Photo by ewanmcdowall)

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