Friday linkage

The Elegant Variation wants you to get stoned -- I.F. Stone'd, that is.

Galleycat's search for an archnemesis ends at Gawker's Intern Alexis -- but the fued is foiled.

Let's say you wanted to get published in a nice cultural journal in the fall of 2006 and the lead of your piece was "From 1990 to 1991, David Lynch's Twin Peaks was a hit television series." 15 years too late and dry as dust! Reject pile! Unless you're Greil Marcus, that is. (link via The Rake).

A million thanks to The Millions' excellent rundown of the literary MacArthur Geniuses 2006.

Los Angeles gets its first, long-awaited H&M; LAist scores an interview with the company's PR-bot.