Some linkage:
- The world's most erudite police blotter. Elegant, understated, and just plain funny.
- You want mad cows? I'll give you a mad cow. Well, technically I suppose that it'd be a mad bull, but...
- The Guide to New York Jargon.
- Most people get more "conservative"as they get older. Kevin Phillips shifted the other way.
- Novels come from the strangest places.
- Wired's Top 20 Sci-Fi Movies. Gattaca at #2? The Matrix ranked higher than 2001: a space odyssey? I have my own list, and it doesn't quite match up with theirs....
- Lucian Freud is still painting self-portraits.
- More on Orwell and his legacy.
- "Birds" have nothing to do with ornothology; "getting a leg over" isn't a stretching exercise (well, I suppose it could be if you do it wrong), and "Nancy" isn't a teen-aged girl detective. At least not according to this dictionary of British slang.
- Despite the New York Sun's rapid slide into utter irrelevancy, it's still the most visually distinctive paper in the city, and it's a joy to look at (if not to actually read). Andy Crewdon breaks it down.