a dancing star!

Mcsweeney’s, my favourite third-favourite website, is part of a project which launched The Future Dictionary of America. Entries include this gem of a piece:
“colin-powow: a discussion in which subordinates express well-considered opinions that are ultimately dismissed by superiors”
The collaborative effort also includes a companion CD of unreleased tracks, “The future soundtrack of America“.

18th to 19th November. This city of countless millions turns into a ghost town during Lebaran. Not a hooker in the seedy hotel bars. Heck, even the terrorists are on holiday.

Buffalo Tom’s Besides. Boston’s favourites have been around longer than you care to remember, and this is an excellent anti-retrospective: full of non A-sides, obscure covers and hard to find releases. The Kill Bill soundtracks - unexpectedly evocative.
“Grace”, by Jeff Buckley. Music to wonder to. If you haven’t heard this, I’ll gladly give you [...]

G.R. Evans’s textbook-like excursion forms a notable footnote to the tradition of formidables shaped by Kuttner, Maitland, Berman, Kantorowicz et al.

Fritz Ringer’s intellectual biography of our greatest social theorist complements, rather than supplants, Marianne Weber’s biography.