Today in culture: Mark Twain takes a leisurely stroll around his manor and is filmed by Thomas Edison. Actually this happened quite awhile ago, but we’re just getting around to talking about it now. Also: the many natural benefits of pubic hair.
-Someone at the Times read an issue of Cosmopolitan magazine from cover to cover and lived to tell the tale.
-Brazilian author Paulo Coelho has beef with James Joyce’s Ulysses. To Coelho, the vaunted modernist masterpiece is all talk and no action. In other words, “twit”!
-Watch Mark Twain fancily strut around his gigantic acres.
-Who wants to look at a bunch of close-ups of Joseph Cotten’s lovely face? Everyone.
-You heard it here first: pubic hair has a job to do.
-”My reputation!” she gasps. “You’ve got to get me out of here!” Tales of a ’30s sleazeball.
-A really gigantic list of intelligent tumblrs that will restore your faith in the internet. If anything could.
-After today, McSweeney’s online will be posting for the 90 days up until November 6th the 90 reasons why Obama should get a second term, with contributions by Cheryl Strayed, Judd Apatow, Shepard Fairey and more.
-Gore Vidal, Terry Southern, literotica.
-Bizarre Polish illustrations, courtesy of M.S. Nowicki.
-Kim Novak on the trials of Vertigo.
-Film Forum’s amazing Universal 100 series is going to screen Robert Siodmak’s bizarre, borderline incestuous The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry. It must be seen to be believed–and seen on the big screen. You won’t regret it.
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