Wax Scrawls: Novels, Mystery Shoes and the Google Burger

How do you celebrate your birthday when you’re the head of the cafe for one of most exorbitantly wealthy companies on Earth? You make a bacon cheeseburger with a Krispy Kreme donut as the bun. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Music search engine Songza also has a Twitter that posts a new song every day. Very cool.

I’ve been thinking a lot about two things recently: the place of the novel and the place of criticsm. This well-written article approaches both by looking at uber-critic James Woods’ new book How Fiction Works. With a title like that, you can guess a lot about its tone and the sort of reverence it has for the novel, but the article does a good job at gleaning some interesting stuff.

Spacing Montreal ask why you always see shoes on power lines. Their answer is charmingly ambiguous and the same as mine: they have no idea.

This site aims to catalogue the opening sequences of movies and TV shows on DVD. Neat.

And finally, NY Mag have a great write-up on Nas’ upcoming album. I’m not super-familiar with Nas but I do know that years on, “One Mic” still sends shivers up my spine.