Announcing Letters In The Mail - The Rumpus.net

It’s called Letters In The Mail. Almost every week you’ll receive a letter, in the mail. Letter writers will include Stephen Elliott, Nick Flynn, Margaret Cho, Cheryl Strayed, Wendy MacNaughton, and Emily Gould. Think of it as the letters you used to get from your creative friends, before this whole internet/email thing.

And it’s only $5 a month, cheap.

There’s no way I didn’t already sign up. Brilliant.

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Originally Posted By balltillifall

What I Watched In 2011

balltillifall:

A list of all the movies I watched last year.

1. The Family Stone
8. True Grit
15. The Lives of Others
17. Groundhog Day
18. Jerry Maguire
23. The King’s Speech
27. High Fidelity
29. Mesrine Part 1: Killer Instinct
31. The Kids Are Alright
39. Starship Troopers
46. Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1
51. Ghostbusters
52. Glengarry Glen Ross
53. Rain Man
54. American Psycho
60. Religulous
68. 10 Things I Hate About You
71. Bridesmaids
76. Midnight In Paris
81. Goodfellas
83. Beginners
92. Twister
93. Mrs. Doubtfire
95. Toy Story
96. WALL-E
97. Page One
99. The Life Aquatic
102. Exit Through The Giftshop
105. The Fighter
113. Adventureland
116. Can’t Hardly Wait
123. Casino
125. The Royal Tenenbaums
126. 2 Days In Paris
127. Crazy, Stupid, Love
128. The Breakfast Club
131. Blue Valentine
132. I Heart Huckabees
137. 127 Hours
138. A Serious Man
139. The Fugitive
140. Raiders of The Lost Ark
141. The Bicycle Thief
146. Drive
148. Winter’s Bone
150. Fast Five
151. Anchorman
153. Superbad
158. The Social Network
161. The Descendants
164. Back To The Future
167. No Country For Old Men
168. Red State
169. About Schmidt
171. Elf
172. Love Actually
173. The Nightmare Before Christmas
179. Annie Hall

Again, not limited to 2011, but I too have seen these out of Dean’s very comprehensive list. Dean, how the heck did you keep track of all these?

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Originally Posted By balltillifall

Books I Read In 2012

balltillifall:

2. Blankets by Craig Thompson
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
10. Consider The Lobster by David Foster Wallace
20. A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
21. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
26. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
33. Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

Dean has a great list. These above are ones I too had read, although not limited to 2011. It’s a great idea, like GoodReads, where you know what books you have in common.

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“Selling One Million Kindles a Week” – Marco.org

Here’s exactly the kind of conflation Amazon wants: a headline referencing the “over 1 million Kindles per week in December” stat from Amazon PR in an article that only mentions the Kindle Fire, implying that Amazon has sold over 4 million Kindle Fires to date.

In fact, all Amazon has said is:

They’ve sold at least 4 million Kindles, total, this month.

The Kindle Fire is the top-selling model.

But the Kindle has between 5 and 10 models, depending on how Amazon counts them:

Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Kindle 4, Kindle Keyboard 3G, Kindle DX

Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Touch, Kindle 4, Kindle Keyboard 3G, Kindle DX (the most likely count, 6)

Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Touch 3G with Special Offers, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch with Special Offers, Kindle 4, Kindle 4 with Special Offers, Kindle Keyboard 3G, Kindle Keyboard 3G with Special Offers, Kindle DX

So all we can derive from Amazon’s numbers is that they’ve sold at least 400,001 Kindle Fires in December.

Great math problem.

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Originally Posted By noraleah

noraleah:

Andrea’s Get Your Life Together Cocktail: gin, blood orange juice, simple syrup & soda. Let’s break some resolutions. Er … I mean MAKE some resolutions.

Annual Brooklyn New Year’s Brunch

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