Quick Clicks

The Ladies & Gents of Something Awful list the best albums of 2009, so far.

Slate’s Farhad Manjoo offers solutions to Facebook’s design flaws. Right on.

The Rumpus interviews author Jonathan Ames.

Annie Leibovitz is b-r-o-k-e. I can’t imagine selling off your negatives.

A cache of Roald Dahl’s personal letters has been recently discovered. His biographer rescheduled the  release of Dahl’s biography for next year in light of the new material.

Austin 360 profiles singer-songwriter M. Ward.

In other Roald Dahl news, the full trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox is up.

HBO has renewed Entourage, True Blood, and Hung for another season.

Quick Clicks

Announcing a new daily feature: Quick Clicks. In these posts I’ll compile a list of cool things that deserve a click, without the commentary of a whole rambling post. Promise.

* A stunning series by photographer Chris Jordan that takes a too-close-for-comfort look at American consumerism.

* There’s a new still from Wes Anderson’s new film, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, making the rounds.

* The LA Times has a list of 61 essential postmodern reads, annotated with sparkly colored symbols! I just died.

* Brews & Books is a great site that concerns two of my favorite things. There’s more fodder for this than you would imagine.

* Love her or hate her, Ellen Page is set to star in two upcoming movies, The Tracey Fragments, and Whip It, Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut! Both look great.

* McSweeney’s is talking about starting a newspaper. Yes please.

* A Ben Stiller-directed sitcom starring John Goodman? This will either be amazing or terrible. Fingers crossed for the former.