Sanjaya, the bouncy-haired American Idol un-winner from Federal Way, is releasing a new album and a memoir(!) later this month. If you want a shock to the eyeballs, you should look at Dancing to the Music in my Head's cover art. Here: Whoops! We didn't mean to spring it on you like that! Go ahead, take the rest of the day off work.

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CAN'T CATCH A BREAK: Nami Mun's novel Miles From Nowhere is about a Korean-American woman in the 1980s who lives out our worst nightmare (underage sex worker, junkie, homeless, it goes on). Seattlest MvB says that the main character is "an affectless screen on which bruises from beatings and ulcerated needle tracks appear without histrionic wailings and gnashings of teeth," and praises Mun's "contemplative eye." Mun will be reading from her book at Elliott Bay ...

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Ever since news broke of Bernie Madoff bilking investors out of fifty billion dollars, I’ve been trying to figure out what the heck a “Ponzi scheme” is. (Apparently, I lack the requisite historical background on Charles Ponzi.) This morning, however, I finally found a clear explanation of how it works on The Simple Dollar: Let’s say I wanted to start a Ponzi scheme to get rich really quickly. I’d put an advertisement out there saying that ...

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A traditional animation about a boy and a spider.

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