Below are simple links to other interesting stuff I've come across on the web in the last day or two; they may or may not concern literature or photography, or indeed the arts at all. You can click here to learn more about how I compile this list and what software I use, if you're interested.

Jerry Seinfeld to produce f-cking reality show
Dear Jerry Seinfeld: Why is it that every project you've chosen to associate your name with since your groundbreaking '90s television show has been some pandering, unfunny, insulting piece of sh-t? Is it that you just no longer care, or does it turn out that it was actually other people besides you who were mostly responsible for the greatness of your old TV show? Millions of frustrated former fans await your answer.

Newest Illinois scandal: Blago hired Burris' deadbeat son for cushy job
Well, another day, another embarrassing revelation concerning just how corrupt the entire political system in Illinois is, and how there isn't a single person that can seem to do anything about it: Now it turns out that sitting senator Roland Burris (appointed to Barack Obama's empty Congressional seat by what turned out to be an insanely corrupt Governor Blagojevich) has a son who just a few months ago was $36,000 in debt and about to have his house foreclosed, until he just happened to mysteriously receive a cushy job appointment for $75,000 a year from none other than Blagojevich himself. And this is in the midst of charges that Burris openly paid a bribe for the Obama senate appointment, so the further ethically shady connection is certainly not going to help things. Ugh -- another day for Chicagoans to hang their head and murmur, "When is all of this finally going to be over?"

Borders to close its biggest, oldest Chicago store
Want yet another sign of just how close draconian chain bookseller Borders is to filing bankruptcy? (I mean, besides the fact that their stock is now worth only 58 cents a share?) Well, here's a doozy -- they just announced that they will be closing their Chicago flagship store in the Magnificent Mile (the one at 800 N Michigan), the oldest store they have in the Chicago area and the once twice as big as the national average. Which is strange for me, because that particular one opened just six months after I moved to Chicago, so has always been linked in my mind to the city in particular. Okay, so how quickly can we re-establish all the independent bookstores that Borders forced out of business in the first place, back in the '90s when they were doing all the morally despicable things that have led them to their current near-bankruptcy state?

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