Tab Dump

• From the wonderful and ever surprising Carl Malamud, audio of TS Elliot Himself reading the Wasteland. Other than all the talk about copyright, it’s something else to here it from the author. I felt like I could understand it in a new way.

• Matt Taibbi, who is normally at his finest when Savaging Thomas Friedman, has found something even better to savage- Goldman Sachs. He continues with a piece about Goldman Sachs gaming the TARP. In my fantasy, Taibbi testifies a lot for a new version of the Pecora Commission.

• english 166 | pomona college The class blog for the Pomona College class on DFW, taught after his death.

• King Kaufman on the Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer’s recent success at making money on Twitter, contrasted with her complete failure to make any money whatsoever from her label, and what it might mean for journalists. “Draw a crowd, create a community, and then sell that community the things it wants.” Wonder if I could live off t-shirts printed with my better ledes.