- Gawker on “The Homosexual Undertones of Harry Potter“. Worth it just for the picture, and the line “Alan Rickman looks like a New Wave lesbian in a cape.”
- There should be a law against Atlas Sound and Panda Bear (of Animal Collective) colaborating on this song, it’s really not fair to everybody else (except maybe Woods). The new Atlas Sound album, Logos, in October on Kranky.
- On the flipside of that, not so sure how I feel about Death Cab for Cutie guy, and Son Volt guy recording “Kerouac inspired songs“.
- I had no idea there was a genre called Amish Fiction.
- “He was extremely Pynchon-eque. He was the Pynchon I wanted him to be,” explained Rushdie. He wouldn’t describe the secretive author, but wished he could have befriended Pynchon. “He never called again,” Rushdie concluded, ruefully.” – Salman Rushdie on eating dinner with Thomas Pynchon