7 @ 9: as any other sad man here

1. This time-sucking list from Buzzfeed is designed to derail all productivity for Buffy fans. It’s easy to find something to argue with (Doyle and Clem belong higher up), but I like the top five. And I like Adam Vary’s take on Joan Appleby, aka, “Chantarelle,” aka, “Anne Steele,” whose long arc is a lovely grace note for viewers who don’t have super powers. Sorting boxes at a community center isn’t quite the same as, “I kinda wanna slay the dragon,” but then again it kinda is. Let’s go to work.

2. Elizabeth Cotten (1893 – 1987), Cotten-picking. (via Barry Taylor)

3. Walmart introduces new “dustbin of history” section:

4. Mark Silk: “What do the Little Sisters want from Obamacare?”

So far as I can see, what they want is to deny their employees contraception coverage. They are claiming a religious right to be able to do so. A good legal argument can be made that this would violate the religious rights of the employees. The larger question has to do with the extent to which those in charge should be allowed to impose their religious convictions on those who work for them.

5. This is a beautiful compliment, beautifully delivered:

Emma considers, carefully, what the f–k she is putting into the culture. Emma thinks: Is this helpful? Not will it build my brand? Not will it give me billions? Not does this express me? Me! Me! My unique and fabulous self, into all eternity in every universe for all time? Will I get a sequel out of it, or a boat? Or, a perfume contract?

6. It’s still early, but David Simon has taken the lead for Most Perfect Headline of the year: “The highway’s jammed with broken heroes …”

7. RIP Amiri Baraka, New Jersey poet.

Biography

Hangs.
whipped
blood
striped
meat pulled
clothes ripped
slobber
feet dangled
pointing
noise
churns
face
black sky
and moon
leather night
red
bleeds
drips
ground
sucks
blood
hangs
life wetting
sticky
mud

laughs
bonnets
wolfmoon
crazyteeth

hangs

hangs

granddaddy
granddaddy, they tore

his
neck