4 August 2004 By The Morning News — 04 Aug 2004 New York's currently: disciplining the sidewalk At least 85 percent of money managed by Coalition Provisional Authority going to U.S. companies--not to Iraq companies, as promised. Afghan troops and U.S. warplanes kill as many as 70 guerrillas near Pakistan border. Iraqis feel new court system, intermingled with U.S. justice, doesn't satisfy. A good reason why stewing chaos at the RNC is just what the Republicans want. Fahrenheit 9/11 opens in Arab world, silences a theater. Chefs, out of their restaurant jobs, find the rewards of cooking at home. The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. Excerpts of an interview with Haruki Murakami. Pristine scans of the comic books that came with the original Atari cartridges. Brilliant perspective: Cooking music with Eno. The rise and fall of photo-realistic comic strips. [via coudal] Webcasts of surgery prep prospective patients for their procedures. Mark Mothersbaugh's gallery of mutants. Comics from Modern Toss. Ben Stiller wants to make a movie of George Saunders's CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. Also: TMN's 2001 talk with Saunders. Scrape the clouds with MoMA's Flash exhibit of the tallest buildings in the world.
