27 October 2003

New York's currently: sick of political solutions

Almost 40 killed in Baghdad by coordinated bomb attacks, following Sunday's attack on Wolfowitz's hotel where an American colonel was killed and 13 wounded.

13 dead after two days of raging fires in Southern California.

First opposition voice broadcasting into the Saudi kingdom beaming out from northern London.

The story of urban hoarders and the Collyer Brothers, Harlem pack-rats who died under an avalanche of trash.

Profile of Dale Peck, literary hatchet-man who will be missed. Related: Profile of Tina Fey, SNL head writer, exorcist.

Bank of America to buy Fleet, becoming the country's largest consumer bank.

A million Waldos in the picture of everything.

British Library puts first and second editions of William Caxton's Cantebury Tales online.

Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, Larry McMurty on Garrison Keillor, or Joan Didion on Bush and the Divine as the NY Review of Books puts up their 40th Anniversary Issue.

6,000+ New Yorkers enjoy farm-fresh vegetables with buying clubs.

Because we haven't linked it before: The wonderfully diverse WFMU streams online.

Maybe I'll write a shorter sentence, I thought. Just to get the ball rolling. Something like, 'She kisses me,' or, 'We smooch.' Michael Barrish, 'End of Story.'

Exactly how does a bullet or knife kill somebody? Also, let's keep the focus on freezing.

Artists + fiction writers = Broken Wrist Project.