How a man setting fire to himself sparked an uprising in Tunisia | Brian Whitaker http://t.co/t2I0yOO via @guardian

Sadly, minimal coverage (at least in US & UK media). Tunisia’s Protest Wave: Where It Comes From and What It Means http://t.co/A1oK5sM

Re: my last tweet, if you sign up, you get a new free e-book every month from the University of Chicago Press. Not bad. http://t.co/doTa2mr

Robert Pinsky, Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town (free e-book, U. Chicago Press) http://t.co/doTa2mr

RT @mattermorph: ‘We form a rhizome with our viruses, or rather our viruses cause us to form a rhizome with other animals’

M.I.A. 36-minute mixtape of unreleased material called ViCKi LEEKX. Brilliance! http://soundcloud.com/hypetrak/m-i-a-vicki-leekx

Essential, painful read. RT @macmcclelland: My Haiti feature is on the Internet. (Heads up: the lede is…horrifying.) http://mojo.ly/gZg6aZ

@proustitute Midnight just felt delayed yesterday, despite a fine day of eating, reading, and museum-going. By 7:30, it already seemed time.

Excellence is a knife.

Cat just did a floor somersault. He meowed to get my attention, then put down his head, rolled forward, and finished in a seated position.