Bites: Toasting Away a Tradition, Emerson was a Nutcase, Dum Dum Girls, and More

CNN + Vice + Sub Pop?  Free Williamsburg asks if “Wolf Blitzer is going to start wearing skinny jeans and doing blow with Terry Richardson at Market Hotel?”

• The Poe Toaster bailed?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson was a nutcase.

• Israel doesn’t want an American Jewish journalist hanging around

• How espresso is made by my favorite coffee shop/roasters, Intelligentsia Coffee

• Flavorpill reviews Patti Smith’s book, Just Kids.

• Pitchfork says Dum Dum Girls are “rising“

• Heavy psych from France.