Thank You, Internet

For making my sick day far less miserable. (Throat, you get no thanks. No thanks at all.)

• The Top 10 Albums of 1987
  Andrew Womack, spot on as always. I got choked up on hearing the first few notes of each song, being that I was a geek for every single one of these bands in high school. (Even G'n'R. I grew up in Ohio.) It reminded me again how awesomely awkward those times were — The flowery dresses! Play practice! The pictures of Johnny Depp in my locker! — and how we'd play "Catch" over and over into the night. (And, yes, I was 11 when these albums originally came out. Always five years behind the times.)


• The 2008 Tournament of Books
  The return of The Rooster, the only competition that matters. Place your bets.


• Translating my novel has given birth to a fiend
  [W]hen the translator didn't recognize a quote from Britney Spears masquerading as an ancient Kalmyk folk saying, something was definitely lost.


• Sticky Pages: Italo Calvino
  Melissa Lion appreciates the appeal of Calvino — and Ice Cube — at Bookslut.


• Animal Magnetism
  A look at the covers of dairy and poultry trade magazines from Design Observer.


• Lizzie Skurnick's Fine Lines
  Normally I'm loathe to link to anything associated with G**ker, but Lizzie's look back at the young adult novels we all grew up with is as comforting as the teddy bear holding cinnamon-flavored lip glosses my mom gave me when I was sick on Valentine's Day way back in 1989.

I feel a nostalgia post coming on...

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