Usedbuyer2.0 Brad Craft (recently published in Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read) has a really interesting response to John D’Agata’s book The Lost Origin of the Essay.

Very excellent post over at Johannes’s Exoskeleton about ‘experimentalism’ and the &Now Conference ‘Hipsters, Kitsch and the Specter of Mass Culture’: “Complexity is the new Negative Capability.”

Soupy Sales, the first great anarchist of children’s television, has passed away. In tribute, go home, fill a pie tin with whipped cream, and hit some motherfucker in the face with that shit.

Has there ever been a good book about skateboarding? I was just watching Thrashin’ for the millionth time the other day, and thought, “Man, this story of Corey Webster and his one-man skate crusade against nemesis Hook (and his band of loyal Daggers) as they battle first at the joust and then at the big downhill,” would make for a riveting read. I had hopes for that When Skateboards Will Be Free book, but it turns out that it wasn’t really about siiiick Acid Drops at all. Disappointing.

Next week at HTML Giant is Mean Week 2. If you have any specific requests of things you want to hear about meanly, suggestion box is open.

So I took Mischa Barton aside and said, “Are you aware of this? What are you okay with? Give me an arena.” She said, “If you talk about my ass, it’ll make me cry.” So I did, and I wasn’t loving it—I don’t love that stuff—but she felt that it was important for me, so we did like 20 takes where I made comments about her ass, and then she cried, and then we all went home.

The Onion talks Random Roles with Bronson Pinchot.

what are some stereotypes in the world of writing? (internet or otherwise, content or author, etc.)  please include behavioral tendencies (bonus points for using a nature show tone).

RT @blakebutler if you smoke weed you aren’t an artist

Who has seen Where the Wild Things Are? Is it worth the time and money? Feels like they are trying too hard to get me to go to the movie. But, you know.

I want to read or write something that feels and operates like this: “…they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 14 years.”