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Book sellers are unhappy with Amazon’s growing domination of the publishing industry: “Amazon is holding the entire book industry hostage,” says Oren Teicher, CEO of the American Booksellers Association. “First they disintermediated retailers, and now it’s publishers and authors.” Not to poke fun at a man who’ll be unemployed in 5 years, but if you’re [...]

I will never, no no never, love again

Sylvia and I dragged a handful of ImprovBoston folks out to the Cantab Lounge on Friday to dance to The Fatback Band playing some old funk, soul and R&B classics. You can see these gents any given Friday. You’ll have seen them there at least once on any weekend for the last decade or more. [...]

what I stand for, I mostly stand behind

So I saw this snippet of text about a squillion times last week, either in writing or in a video or in the image below: Excerpting the important parts, in case you can’t see the image: You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods [...]

by the way you look fantastic

Scattershot links today in lieu of content: Via my friend Tom D., the observation that Back in Black is the second best-selling album of all time, after Thriller. I grow more suspicious each time I see Thriller in the #1 slot. Yes, it’s Thriller, but hasn’t time marched on? Haven’t new acts produced better pop [...]

as one life finishes, another one starts

[Updated below.] Netflix pissed everyone off a few weeks back when it announced that the price of “everything you want, all the time, as fast as we can mail it to you or force the pipes to carry it” was increasing by more than 50%. It’s a bold new future and I don’t know what [...]

we lose ourselves in work to do and bills to pay

Sylvia and I were in Wexford, PA, half an hour north of Pittsburgh, for a wedding this past weekend. We had some time to kill before we could start getting fancy, so I took her to lunch at Perkins’ Family Style Restaurant. It was her first time eating at a family-style restaurant that didn’t also [...]

we’re just a million little gods causing rainstorms turning every good thing to rust

I had an exchange with Tom yesterday that reminded me how close I came to flunking macroeconomics. You might not believe it, given my understated brilliance, but I really struggled with advanced macro. I was never great at studying: I lacked the diligence it required and attending college at the dawn of the era of [...]

blueprint for a monument

New post up on Overthinking It about a happier 10-year anniversary from this past Sunday: the release of Jay-Z’s album The Blueprint: The shadow of Biggie’s absence was growing more and more notable. Someone needed to step up and become unofficial chairman of the East Coast once more. And by critical consensus, attention fell on [...]

burn all my notebooks; what good are notebooks?

Sylvia needed to exchange something at the Apple store, so we stopped by the Cambridgeside Galleria after brunch on Saturday. We came out on the second floor, immediately opposite a Borders. “You mentioned you had a gift card, or might have a gift card,” I said. “Is there anything you …” Sylvia, who hadn’t set [...]

never think of never, let this spell last forever

Trout Stanley: A weird but captivating little play, which blossoms under some excellent performances from Exquisite Corps Theatre. I was initially skeptical of the play, as I would be of anything whose synopsis begins, “The morning after an exotic dancer and local Scrabble champion goes missing …” But I suspended my disbelief long enough to [...]

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