- I’m busy packet deadlining today, but I promise I’ll catch up on e-mail tomorrow. In the meantime, some little links.
- The divine Maureen Johnson has created a Ning community, YA for Obama. See you there.
- Colleen offers some further thoughts on book chains and the insanities we’ve come to tolerate, jumping off Greg’s essay from last week.
- Paul Collins brings some links on the financial meltdown.
- Payseur & Schmidt is having a mailing list only sale, including Nicola’s stellar memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party for a mere $50. Run, don’t walk.
- I like this quotation from Collette too: "What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner." I’m ever grateful for already realizing it.
- Confidential to Stephany Aulenback: Write a parenting book? Or just any kind of book you want? Please? Because I could read these posts all day.
- Cintra Wilson revisits goth. I love the bat top hat in the slideshow.
- Kassia on The End: "To the best of my knowledge, the sky has been falling since the sky was created. We have been in the Decline of Western Civilization since before the Roman Empire fell. And I know the following to be true: radio will kill books, movies will kill radio, television will kill movies, the Internet will kill television, and the Youth Are Out of Control."