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Mama always said Science Fiction is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get. kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/j… #geeks #trekkie 12:58 PM May 29th via web
Lord of the Fliers #ExtraLetterBooks 1:23 PM May 28th via web
Tortilla's Flat #ExtraLetterBooks 1:11 PM May 28th via web
The House of Seven Grables #ExtraLetterBooks 1:07 PM May 28th via web
Rabbit Runt #ExtraLetterBooks 12:57 PM May 28th via web
Philately, military mail and Memorial Day: stamps.about.com/b/2012/05/27/m… #nationalpostalmuseum #aboutstamps 12:19 PM May 28th via web
Is a hunka-hunka burnin' eternal flame included with the lot? artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/28/sal… #elvishasleftthebuilding 11:46 AM May 28th via web
I like an open-face sammich as much as the next guy, but not if the face belongs to somebody. huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012… #lordofsandwich 8:03 PM May 27th via web
#FF @parisreview, @GeorgeTakei, @KerryKennedyRFK, @billmckibben, @yokoono, @UlyssesSeen, @MichaelWolffNYC, @mandystadt, @hipenfold 5:25 PM May 25th via web
Don't know which is more mind-blowing: researchers zero on Christ's death or John Waters is hitching xcross U.S. Well: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/joh… 12:16 PM May 25th via web
A few good words from Bernard-Henri Lévy on On The Road. Kerouac: "...to do exactly what Proust did, but fast," huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-l… #beats 11:51 AM May 25th via web
a visit to the brautigan library ("There simply had to be a library like this."): jessamyn.com/journal/june00… (from @jessamyn) #vermont #zines #ca 11:20 AM May 25th via web
Surely Capote had an insult for him, but McGuane's "You're nothing but a pet rock" will do. nyti.ms/KcihSo #brautigan #hippielit #nyt 11:38 AM May 22nd via Tweet Button
Literatis behind bars: listverse.com/2008/08/08/10-… #genet #verlaine #Solzhenitsyn 11:32 PM May 19th via web
Literature keeps one out of jail instead of putting one in, for a change. nydn.us/JI4seN #ohenry #kesey #archer #wilde #burroughs 11:30 PM May 19th via Tweet Button
louisvirtel Happy birthday to Malcolm X! Or as my history teachers called him, "Something after World War II that we don't have time for." 12:51 PM May 19th via web Retweeted by jdfinch and 123 others
Countdown to Bloomsday: rosenbach.org/bloomsdaycentr… (via @RosenbachMuseum) 10:01 AM May 19th via web
@jdfinch Nailed it. 1:01 PM May 18th via web in reply to jdfinch
I predict $ 95,505,823,738 ($38 a share) as the Facebook IPO day closing valuation facebookipodayclosingprice.com 11:50 PM May 17th via facebookipodayclosingprice.com
At Publisher's Weekly "fix of Mod. Lib. top 100 novels" Kerouac gets trashed, yet again. So what else is new?! blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/20… #yawn 9:44 PM May 17th via web

Name J. Doug Finch
Location Brattleboro VT
Web http://thewhirlig...
Bio I write -- journalism, fiction, humor, nonfiction. (I'm on McSweeney's, Eyeshot, etc.) I sporadically litblog. I'm the Stamps Guide at NYT's About.com.