Feeling a little slow on the uptake this morning? Perhaps you partied a bit too hard last night. Ah, no matter. Here are a few things to help you shake off the night before.
- The New York Times covers The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies, which features an essay from Richard Gaughran, a professor of English at James
Monroe?Stewart?Madison University. Since I’m decidedly pro-Dude, I aplaud the spirit of Gaughran’s thigh-baring photo in the Times. I may need to pick up the book for the brilliantly titled essay "The Really Big Sleep: Jeffrey Lebowski as the Second Coming of Rip Van Winkle."
- This has been Feedback’s year of compulsive podcast listening. Podcasts on long walks! Podcasts while cooking! Podcasts while shoveling snow! And the folks at Secretly Y’all recently offered a few selections for the snowstorm that will get you through the forthcoming post-New Year’s Eve letdown. Exhibit A, and Exhibit B. And have I told you to meet these people? (I have.) Make sure to catch the next Secretly Y’all event at Random Row Books on January 17, 7pm.
- Borrowed Beams of Light caught a write-up on the tongue-in-beard—er, in-cheek—music blog White Guys with Beards. Adam Brock’s EP is one of the most enjoyable things I heard this year, shaven or stirred. Give it a listen and, when you see him, ask him to get another show together.