Link Roundup: Orchids and Ammo
By Wistar Watts Murray
April 8th, 2008
Garden & Gun – This magazine concept strikes me as very iffy.
The bloggers are dying – Obviously I’m not working hard enough.
Soap opera characters writing bestsellers – Kickass. Strikingly similar to my own life.
Guardian UK interview with Salman Rushdie – Padma, thank you for freeing up your husband for my superior snuggles and editorial comments.
The story of condoms – “Quite agitated. Put on condom; entered. Heart beat; fell. Quite sorry…”
The 40-year anniversary of Alexander Portnoy – “…Portnoy’s Complaint did for the Jewish mother what Jaws did for the shark: took an already frightening creature and made it even scarier.”
European eco-porn activists – Taking a sexy, irrelevant time machine back to the ’60s.
The Virginia Quarterly Review
April 8th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Garden & Gun looks great. There’s a magazine for me.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:54 am
First Puppies & Meth, now Garden & Gun. I feel like the magazine industry has been spying on my soul.
By the way, I apologize to readers who have known of Garden & Gun since it made its debut last year. I suspect that all my easy jokes have already been made. But I can’t help it if my mom just received her first complimentary issue in the mail last week and I happened to get my hands on it.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
We (Lynsie and I) just got a copy. I’m still scratching my head. We have neither garden nor gun, no horses, and we live in a circa 1960’s ranch house. Yet I’m secretly flattered. I’m still looking for the conversational segue into which I can squeeze “I just read in Garden in Gun that…”