Disambiguations™ for October 1, 2009

I. October Believer is out! A sorta "travel issue": Avi Davis on Dracula and tourism; August Kleinzahler on Alaska; Ginger Strand and James Wallenstein on Cuba; J.C. Hallman on the history of cruise ships...plus Jonathan Ames interviewed, Sheila Heti talking to Agnès Varda, Jack Pendarvis's "Musin's and Thinkin's" Southernish humor column, and more! (Derek Walcott poem... Stephen Burt poetry review...Greil Marcus as always...Regional fast-food chart from Lincoln Michel...still more...including EYE-POPPING interior art by JING WEI!)

II. Amber Tamblyn is blogging at the Poetry Foundation's Harriet?! It's kind of amazing:

"Look at you, spell-checking the word ‘aficionado’ and correcting it. You can’t even spell. You’re a Hollywood actress who can’t spell, who doesn’t even live in Hollywood but none the less that’s what you are, because I am your subconscious and I say so."

III. I'm astonished—or maybe I'm not??—that there's no Nabokov love in the comments at Paper Cuts (vis-à-vis Rosenbaum/Laura/Slate) in fact there's no mention of Nabokov at all.

IV. Thanks to all who came out to the reading last night — that was a lot of fun!

Disambiguations for July 29, 2009 (late edition)

From Lincoln Michel at The Faster Times: A new DFW story. (Click to get the PDF from the TFT site.)(Initials—gotta love 'em!)

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Heard shouted from the street:
Male voice: I love you!
Female voice: No you don't.

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Don't miss David Cairns on Spellbound: "Mogo on the Gogo"!

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What was I going to say...?

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ED'S MOVIE PICKS: In the Loop
REVIEW: It was good, and I liked not knowing who the actors were. (The only one who looked familiar was James Gandolfini—does he always sound so nasal? I liked the nasal effect.) And I didn't realize until later that it was Anna Chlumsky in the role of the State Dept. aide.
VERDICT: A must-see.
AMPERSANDS: Five out of five ampersands (&&&&&)

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That wasn't what I was going to say...Hmmm....

Holy mole

I had never subscribed to any religion, but it turned out this god was inhabiting a mole on my left shoulder that I'd always been worried about but hadn't quite gotten around to removing.
—"My Initiation," Lincoln Michel (in L Magazine)