Nick “Penis” Pavich, our cherished Grey Worm and the publisher of The Toast, is celebrating a birthday today. We won’t tell you his age, but he’s older than Demi Lovato and younger than Willie Nelson. Happy Birthday, Nick!
Jezebel has ranked the top 20 movie musicals. Some of the choices made are…interesting. What’s your top 3?
The Go Fug Yourself ladies talk to Anne Helen Petersen about blog mechanics, their evolution in tone, and what they do with their kids while they write.
No, 2013 Was Not The Year Of “The Black Movie”
A reader emailed me to say she just finished Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales, and loved it, and wanted to know if anyone had any great suggestions for “favorite non-Murakami almost-magical realism” to share. Do you?
Zola Books has some fantastic free e-books right now, including…Middlemarch. No pressure. How much fun was our first discussion, though? It’s still going on, hop in anywhere, and Rebecca Mead wants to say how much she’s enjoying The Toast commentariat’s conversation style.
Slate is hiring some paid interns.
If you live in NYC and like a good oyster happy hour, here are fifty of them.
Gorgeous gallery of Victorian street life in London.
I just got sent a PDF of No Regrets, the n+1 book (the perks of extraordinary fame), and I’m looking forward to it. This helped! Also, how do you feel about I Love Dick? I bought it because Haley Mlotek and Eileen Myles said to, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
