- I adore the piano and so I am here for this video of a guy playing the Top 10 Most Iconic Piano Intros of All Time. (Though I quibble with his order…)
- Courtesy of Gothamist, this is by turns hilarious and frightening… Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
- If you loved comics in the 80s, the name Frank Miller looms large in your personal pantheon. Well, Frank has had a rough few years, though he’s fortunately doing much better now. “When Death Came For Frank Miller”
- A data scientist excoriates the AI hype-train in a piece that just had to be titled “I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again”
- A truly wonderful piece from the L.A. Times in which the author rails against the tendency to deify John Barth for his early work and ignore his later work. As a fan of all eras of Mr. Barth, I heartily endorse this viewpoint!
- Lastly, as a gigantic Paradise Lost nerd, I was thrilled to see this story: Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
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