• The state of literature, to put it bluntly, is a mess.
• Once again, Michele Bachmann (something called the “Polar Vortex-Mex Hotdish”) did not win Sen. Al Franken’s annual hot dish cookoff.
• Life as a distraction—Joan Didion’s 1979 review of Woody Allen’s cinema of self-absorption.
• Disney knows what you’re doing, and where.
• Georgia: Guns everywhere, everywhere!
• More reasons why San Francisco is in the middle of an unsustainable tech-yuppie-jerkface bubble.
• “Our lazy embrace of [Jon] Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards.”
• Even if Putin wanted to tell the truth, he might not remember how.
• Keith Richards is writing a children’s book.
• This is how Philip K. Dick thought 1992 would turn out.
• The coming GOP 2014 wave.
• Los Angeles spent $1 billion buying iPads for schoolkids, but can’t repair the school buildings.
• Print and read: The Sandy Hook killer’s father on what his son did and whether he could have been stopped.