Serena-Maneesh Hit Us and It Felt Like Abyss, the Stranger, Seattle, March 28 Related articles by ZemantaSerena-Maneesh - No.2: Abyss In B Minor [Album] (idiomag.com)Serena-Maneesh/The Depreciation Guild @ Spaceland, Los Angeles 3/22/10 (stereogum.com)TechStars Seattle Applications Are Now Open (feld.com)Reading Today: Nufer! (slog.thestranger.com)Review of Serena-Maneesh's S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor and giveaway (chromewaves.net) … [Read more...]

To the Editor: Luc Sante, perhaps echoing pleasurable, intoxicating confusions found in David Shields's "Reality Hunger" (March 14), fails to distinguish lies from fictions. Such a conflation can be exciting; it generates an illusion of profundity. The illusion vanishes when the rather obvious distinction it obscure is recalled. "You could say without exaggeration that everything on TV is fiction whether it is packaged as such or not," he writes. So writing fails to be an exaggeration only if to call it such would be a gross … [Read more...]

Can Taschen do no wrong? As a card-carrying typeface hobbyist, I get off on this stuff, but lordy lord don't put this book in my lap I might just leap right in and never come back. Are you ready eyeballs? Start dancing: … [Read more...]

From the David Simon article in the Sunday Times magazine: Network executive to writer: "Could we have the drama . . . without the conflict?"Rivals Lewis Black being told by a suit that his comedy pilot was "too funny."  New orleansRelated articles by ZemantaThe New New Treme Trailer: Walter Sobchak Spotted in New Orleans (nymag.com)David Simon's Treme Gets April 11 Premiere Date, Trailer (pastemagazine.com)Karen Dalton-Beninato: The Saints Have Won the Superbowl and I'm Moving Home (huffingtonpost.com)David Simon … [Read more...]