Linkpile

• Moral Fiber: Breakfast and believing: Joshua Glenn codebreaks the ads for clues to the Middlebrow soul. Highly interesting, as always. (Bonus link: old Consumed on Cheerios as a “character.”)
• How friendship became friending: Another good essay by Rob Horning on social networking, society, identity.
• The surprising beauty of portraits on gravestones.: Photo essay by by Camilo Jose Vergara
• Sad state of scares when focus is on zombies, vampires: “What about the gremlin? The yeti? The triple-threat ghoul, who robs graves, drinks blood and eats the dead?”
• Flip-Flop Frame | Significant Objects: Story by Merrill Markoe. “This poorly articulated caricature of a foot wearing a flimsy multicolored flip flop sits atop a frame that boldly declares, ‘Whatever I have enshrined here is something I hold in contempt.'” Very exciting to me personally to have gotten Merrill Markoe into the project.

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