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  1. Two weeks off from the Day Job, starting today! Stay up late! Sleep late! Go to movies in the middle of the friggin' afternoon!
  2. "We live in an oligarchy": an awesome interview with David Simon. http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n12/htdocs/david-simon-280.php?page=1
  3. I really want to see this movie: a new German epic about the medieval legend of Pope Joan. http://www.die-paepstin.de/
  4. Turns out J. G. Ballard was a wonderful father: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/13/jg-ballard-bea-ballard-obituary
  5. If not, I'm pretty sure I have some between my sofa cushions. Or maybe behind the fridge.
  6. Have they found dark matter in a mine in Minnesota? Results inconclusive.http://bit.ly/6EQzUc
  7. Listening to a Neko Case concert on KUT. She's singing a Harry Nilsson song.
  8. She played a saint in Song of Bernadette, then a few years later, a lusty temptress in Duel in the Sun, the fruitiest Western ever made.
  9. Actress Jennifer Jones has died. For all you youngsters out there, she was Hollywood royalty once upon a time, married to David O. Selznick.
  10. http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20091216/66dcc551-b5ae-4a53-93d8-78a98cda293b Insert your own Norman Bates/Rose for Emily joke.
  11. That's $818, US. Note to young writers: keep your day jobs. Goes for geezer writers like me, too.
  12. The bottom's truly dropping out: advances for debut novels in the UK are falling to £500. http://bit.ly/8jULBj
  13. RT @JenHoward: via @PublishersLunch As Dalton closes, Laredo could be largest US city without bookstore http://bit.ly/5SWoaY
  14. @maudnewton The essays, Down and Out in Paris and London, and Homage to Catalonia.
  15. Take the snow in literature quiz. I got 8 out of 14. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/2009/feb/02/quiz-snow-books
  16. @maudnewton All plum puddings are equal, but some are more equal than others.
  17. Town versus gown gets ugly in Pittsburgh. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/education/16college.html?_r=1&ref=us
  18. Sometimes (not always) I love Texas: Kinky Friedman's dropped out of the governor's race...to run for ag commissioner. How hard could it be?
  19. Office Christmas party photos; only Pete Campbell is missing. http://todayspictures.slate.com/20091215/
  20. Amazon to the publishing biz: we will bury you. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/wary-book-publishers-are-fighting-the-future/