Calling it "the best local TV news story we've ever seen," DCist links to this clip from WLWT about a 21-year-old guy from Milford who claims to be a superhero in Cincinnati. And better yet, there is apparently some sort of Myspace site called Worldsuperheroregistry.com for folks who have a passion for fighting local crime in a masked sort of way.
If you watch nothing else, make sure to catch the interaction between the "superhero" and the police officer from 1:40-1:53.
According to the Times (via Amber), Vladimir Nabokov's son has decided to publish his father's final unfinished manuscript. Written on 138 index cards (which was apparently the way that Nabokov wrote all of his books), The Original of Laura will be published on November 3rd. When Nabokov died in 1977, he asked that the cards be burned, but his son locked them in a bank vault in Switzerland instead.
The folks at the Red Hot Organization somehow managed to get an amazing collection of artists together, including David Byrne, Jose Gonzalez, Feist, Ben Gibbard, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, The National, Yeasayer, The Decemberists, Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Spoon, Arcade Fire, Beirut, My Morning Jacket, The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, Stuart Murdoch (from Belle & Sebastian), Cat Power, Andrew Bird, Conor Oberst, Blonde Redhead and Kevin Drew, to form a “dream team” charity album of sorts called Dark Was the Night. I imagine that a lot of planning and back-and-forth file swapping went into their final product, but their hard work pays off. It’s as if you made a really great tape on a day when you were sitting on the floor surrounded by a bunch of your random indie records. Only not only are you dubbing the tape, you’ve also found a way to donate money to raise awareness for HIV and AIDS at the same time.
That's me, next to the guy in blue!
After a long week of work, I took the train (yay!) to New York on Friday to visit two of my oldest and best friends, Leah and Julia. Like most trips to New York, it was completely exhausting but really fun.
