It's important to not forget the important things in life with all the post-election depression: gin, tacos, and the following. Several links to cheer up your wednesday:
Chicago Tribune's Advice Column has a letter come in explaining to women that comic book stores are excellent places to meet guys, as it's audience is 95% men. The letter, which claims to be written by a women, seems written by a guy.
I really love the idea of a Comic Shop on a New Comics Wednesday (which, if you haven't been, isn't all that inviting to women) suddenly having several women in bar clothes and heels walk in and try to strike up a conversation. "I'd like to buy the lady over there her choice of a Drawn and Quarterly comic."
Audio from Local H as Oasis for Halloween – you need a special audio decoder to listen. It's, ummm, interesting, in that it's 2am and Scott Lucas is performing in a drunken sort of way (read: a good way). They cover Cum On Feel the Noise (they spell it that way, not me) as Oasis covering it, which one of our intrepid fans noted she had once seen as b-side to an Oasis single.
There happens to be a large number of live Local H recordings at that webpage.
In case you need more snark in your weekly on-line diet, David Foster Wallace reviews a Borges biography, and Johnathan Frazen reads from his so-so latest collection of New Yorker stories. Take that red states!
Wallace, of course, uses endnotes in his review. Though it seems to piss off a great deal of people with it's "look-at-me-i'm-david-foster-wallace-reviewing-a-book"-ness, it really didn't offend me as much as it seems oddly appropriate for Borges and the article itself is a top-notch review and overview. It is a bitch to read on-line with the page 1,2,3 format – click on printer-ready format for an easier read.
A history of the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys series alongside its creator. One of the more interesting non-political things in the NYer lately. Did anyone else grow up reading the series where Joe's girlfriend Lola is blown up in a car bomb in the first book? I always thought that was really messed up.
Enjoy!