Mad linkage:
Nudists are seeking the next generation.
The grilled cheese sandwich gets a trendy rebirth.
An absolutely amazing abandoned end of the world bunker.
Animals that have Jack Shephard’s face.
“Only zealots and fools will continue to bow down to the gods of social media.”
Junot Diaz on Tokyo’s insane urbanism.
Relive Bill Paxton in all his glory in James Cameron’s Aliens.
FYI: The last name of the guy who plays Magnitude (which is short for “Magnetic Attitude”) on Community is Youngblood. Pop pop!
Martin Amis on Christopher Hitchens.
Japanese graffiti artist adds Fukushima disaster to famous A-bomb mural.
The haunted pod village of San-zhi.
An interview with Werner Herzog.
Professional online poker player ponders how he’ll make a living now.
Lindsay Lohan & Shenae Grimes: This should be interesting.
Thankfully the death of Osama Bin Laden doesn’t really affect Kathryn Bigelow’s film about the death of Osama Bin Laden.
Salvador Dali’s TV ads for chocolate, alka-seltzer, and wine.
On Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Roberto Bolaño’s European adventures.
Jim Caviezel says that playing Jesus ruined his acting career. LOL. Good.
Baby was breastfed by wrong woman!
The man most likely to take top military job has never seen war.
The collected letters of Vladimir Nabokov.
Women are changing the sex industry from the inside, by Molly Lambert.
Guy Pearce cast in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus/Aliens prequel.
Will Ferrell shaved Conan O’Brien last night.
The pictures in this post are from this awesome collection of covers to the various editions of the novel and the two film adaptations of Lolita. Some really interesting design work there, ranging from the incredibly boring to the incredibly tantalizing.
“Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.”
-Vladimir Nabokov, interviewed in The Paris Review.
But I guess they just happened to miss this one:
from here.
Nikola Mihov’s fascinating photography series “Forget Your Past.”
Relive Bill Paxton in all his glory in James Cameron’s True Lies.
The billionaires go back to school.
Bin Laden’s legacy will depend in part on what Obama does next.
Al-Quaeda: the next generation?
Back To The Future 2 is totally amazing and depressing at the same time.
6 medication side effects straight out of a horror movie.
Tracing that fake MLK quote back to its source.
Hot women pandering to nerds.
