This has nothing to do with books, but it is beautiful. (via Joel Rice, McSweeney’s skate columnist extraordinaire.)
Joel Rice interviews Cole Louison, author of The Impossible, a new history of skateboarding.
I wrote a short thing on my year in skateboarding for n+1. Really it was my year in injuries.
(via iambitta, jonwithabullet)
Holy Crap! (h/t Leon)
I was initially dazzled by this but I’ve been thinking and I’m pretty sure it’d actually be easier to do this trick using crutches. If this kid was actually handicapped then we’d have something to talk about.
We have something to talk about.
AUTHOR: Hey Mom, do you remember when you made us walk from home to school on the weekend?
MOTHER: Yeah.
AUTHOR: What was that for?
MOTHER: For fun. And to see if you could do it, walk the route you drove by car everyday. That was far.
"— This little piece by Joel Rice—on odd parental whims and skateboarding—is great.
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Hey Dustin, how about getting booksellers to reenact this Cocteau?
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Is this a joke?
‘The Human Centipede” fans can also show their love for horrifying surgery by wearing a necklace inspired by the movie.
Further...
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This week, the Ransom Center at UT-Austin opened up its archives of the works of J.M. Coetzee. Because the Nobel Prize winner is an alumnus, he...
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New Year’s Day —
everything is in blossom!
I feel about average.-Kobayashi Issa
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“You see things differently when you’re in love. Two outpatients from a methadone clinic slap each other on the corner. A goiter rides the crosstown...”
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BREAKING NEWS!
We’re open (as of 2pm yesterday). Stop by and say hello!


As of 2pm today, powerHouse Arena...
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the lights are back on!
we’re filling our case with cheese.
we have beer too.
we open at 1pm.
come say hi.
thank you NYC.
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Let’s do thiiiisssss.
