Saturday, February 16, 2008

Links of the Week

Here's a new feature....a random assortment of things that piqued my interest over the past week:

Billboard magazine discusses and exhibites the Top 25 concert posters of all time.

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This was delicious:
See a lot of other delicious-looking items from American Spoon here.

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Another great fiction podcast from The New Yorker. Take 19 minutes to listen to T.C. Boyle read and discuss Tobias Wolff's brilliant short story "A Bullet in the Brain" here (click to listen, right click to download). Click here to read.

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New Yorkers are still talking about this:


More on David Tyree's Amazing Catch in the Super Bowl and how he's not an anonymous diner at the IHOP anymore: article here.

For those who may be too young to recall the original "Catch" by Dwight Clark,


you can read about it here.


And if you want to watch that see "The Catch":



And Tyree's catch also has its own wikipedia entry here.

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And a little politics to end this week. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd opines about the candidacy of Hillary Clinton here.

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