Publishing Genius Press (who will be publishing my chapbook, Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously, in March 2009) has just released a beautiful new chapbook called Pocket Finger by Ryan Call and Christy Call:

It's a sinister sort of family drama. A sad tale. Haunting. Macabre.

For those of you who like Hollywood pitchline comparisons, think Peter Markus meets Brian Evenson meets post-apocalyptic Cormac McCarthy.

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Since the Spring 2009 Prêt-à-Porter collections have all shown, the Couture lines are soon to follow. (Something I look forward to every year!)

Here are a few of my favorites from last year's Spring Couture shows:

Jean Paul Gaultier

Christian Lacroix

Christian Dior

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What with the recent Wells Tower story and now this, The New Yorker seems to be on a roll: publishing things that aren't their typical sucky yawnfests:

"Lostronaut"
by Jonathan Lethem

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"The overall concept of this video revolves around images of imaginary astronomical phenomena. I selected a method which I anticipated would be appropriate to the construction of "scaleless" objects, such that one could imagine them occupying planetary sized volumes of space."

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Streetsy does "40+ Street artists You Should Know Besides Banksy"

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From: Larval Subjects -- "Ethical Principles for the Intellectually Honest Critical Thinker"

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A 15th century Ottoman scroll of the Koran on display at the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore.

Photo taken by Rachel Leow, a self-described fledgling historian who curates Bookporn.

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"I didn't want to do it in the first place, I wanted to read books, but I knew I was good at it. But don't consume crap, make a choice."

--Vivienne Westwood

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Paul McCartney says it's time to release Carnival of Light - a Beatles album from 1967 that George Harrison said was too avant-garde.

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The Getty digitizes twenty-one Russian avant-garde books.