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June 25, 2013
Cat Hitchhikes for 10 Months
Hipsters love cats. But apparently cats don’t love the hipsterfied city of PDX. A cat by the name of Mata Hairi hitchhiked its way out of Portland, Oregon, in September after her owner, Ron Buss, let him out. Michael King, a homeless man, found Mata Hairi and rescued her, taking the cat on his hitchhiking […]
Happy 161st Birthday, Antoni Gaudi!
Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect of insanely intricate, bone-like structures, was born on this day in 1852. When I was backpacking through Europe, I stopped by his La Sagrada Familia. You can read about it in my Church Hopping column on Burnside Writers Collective. Gaudi was beaten and imprisoned when he showed up at a demonstration […]
June 21, 2013
Friday Links: Words in the Mail
Happy Friday! Here are a couple Friday links to kick off the weekend. This week’s theme is about how the link between literature and the postal service. Indie darlings The Postal Service, who collaborated through snail mail, are touring the US right now. Can you believe Give Up is celebrating its 10th anniversary?! Ireland fit […]
June 20, 2013
Vice’s Suicide Poet: Beat Writer Elise Cowen
Well by now you’ve probably heard about VICE’s suicide fashion spread, “Last Words.” If not, here’s the low down: The lifestyle magazine with the apparently ironic tagline “The Definitive Guide to Enlightening Information” launched The Fiction Issue 2013 featuring all women fiction writers. So far, so good. In fact, almost exemplary considering VIDA’s stats that […]
June 19, 2013
Kristen Stewart Hits the Road
Kristen Stewart, who played Marylou in the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, is reportedly on a summer road trip in the South. According to sev-er-al sources, she’s been hanging out at bars and shooting pool in Amarillo, Texas, and Memphis, Tennessee, and is on her way to New Orleans, Louisiana. Among the […]
June 14, 2013
Friday Links: Words in Motion
Leaving you this weekend with a few fun links::: I was just thinking the other day that there should be a library on every corner instead of a Starbucks … or maybe a library in every Starbucks? The Free Little Library might be the solution we need! Here’s to hoping the expand throughout New York […]
June 12, 2013
Blame Parents for Millennials Acting Entitled: Helicopter Parents Have Trophy Kids Who End Up Boomerang Kids
Remember my post from last July “Hipsters Hate Driving”? It was inspired by the Reuters report “America’s Generation Y Not Driven to Drive” that did not once use the word “hipster” but rather “millennials.” Well, apparently Ford—as in the car manufacturer—sponsored a panel discussion with my exact title on May 30, 2013. Flavorwire’s Tom Hawking […]
June 7, 2013
Retracing Jack Kerouac Mentions Me
The other day I mentioned how J. Haeske and I have been talking about the correlation between Jack Kerouac and John Steinbeck. I feel honored that the Retracing Jack Kerouac blog linked back to that conversation. On the blog, Haeske reveals that it’s one of Steinbeck’s books that’s his favorite—not Kerouac’s. Can I let you […]
June 6, 2013
“The Mediterranean Is a Miserable Place”
While surfing the Web, I came across an article titled “Vacationing in the Most Miserable Place on Earth This Summer?” The tag line: “The Mediterranean is a miserable place.” By the second sentence, the author Curtis Tate, was finger-pointing Greece: “[...] Greece was the flag bearer for the economic and social misery these countries are […]
June 5, 2013
Clip: A Time to Scatter Stones
For my latest “A Time to…” art post, check out Burnside Writers Collective. Filed under: Faith Tagged: Burnside Writers Collective, season, time
