Update: Shame-Faced

At the spin-off blog I take on Ernest Hemingway again, best two falls out of three.

Miscellaneous: Links

This Slate piece, in which John Cook thoroughly demolishes a pair of pretentious music critics for their baseless accusations of racism against The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt, is one of my favorite reads of recent months. For the record, I own several Stephin Merritt albums and am a fan of OutKast, but don’t particularly care for hip-hop.

Screenwriter Josh Friedman is back.

Flashing in the Gutters has posted its 200th story. Why not stop by and read a few?