Weekend reader - links I loved
This week’s links is brought to you by the holiday season. Here’s to a bit of R&R!
I love this approach to life:
The world is my museum, displaying my collections on loan. (via Something Changed)
Do you like attending your own events? Sometimes, I really don’t. This might be why.
The reason movies work so well is because they’re entertainment. People like to be entertained. No matter what type of event you’re holding, it’s important to realize your first job is to entertain.
It is absolutely that time of year - The Time of the List - which I love because, frankly, I love lists. Let’s start with one of my favourite Melbourne bloggers, Lisa Dempster and her list of Top Rockin’ People for 2010.
Who wouldn’t want a poetry mix tape for Christmas? - Adam Ford
Did you hear about the garment workers who died in a factory fire in Bangladesh this week? Sometimes it’s all too easy to forget that’s where our clothes come from. This is not an anti-globalisation comment, just a nudge to remember what working conditions are still like for so many.
Some futures I thought I might have by Emma Barrie struck a chord. I still dream of futures. Worryingly, they’re becoming even more obscure than Matthew Perry thinking there would be another cup.
Are these the coolest bookstores ever? (via Dan Weiss at The Rumpus)
So Jonathan Franzen went on Oprah, huh. - The Paris Review
Collaborative consumption? Yes please! - Rachel Botsman on TED
Want to know what George Orwell was doing 70 years ago to the day? The George Orwell Prize is publishing his diaries in exactly this way. 1940 was not such a good year:
He said that in the siege of Warsaw 95 per cent of the houses were damaged and about 25 per cent demolished. All services, electricity, water, etc., broke down, and towards the end people had no defence whatever against the aeroplanes and, what was worse, the artillery. He described people rushing out to cut bits off a horse killed by shell-fire, then being driven back by fresh shells, then rushing out again. - George Orwell.
Speaking of WWII, how are e-reader sales of Mein Kampf doing? - The Awl
A survival guide for the 26-35 age range in 2011- Thought Catalog
Be a freelancer. Because working for yourself is the American/Global Dream. In today’s economy, though, be advised that what freelancing actually means is a) abusing food stamps, unemployment and food banks, b) being a barista, c) accepting the money your parents offer and d) having one (two if you’re lucky) client(s) that result in about 15% of (what you tell others is) your monthly income.
[image: daily cartoon at New Matilda]
