L.A. Weekly on golden anniversary of Raymond Chandler's death

Judith Freeman on the 50th anniversary of Raymond Chandler's death:

Chandler understood how loneliness would become our new modern disease, the condition of a whole culture. It’s the source of much of the controlled, half-poetical emotion that lies at the heart of Marlowe and of every Chandler story.

It's bedtime

Pictured above is our kitten, Molly Bloom (yes, she's named for Ulysses).

Two links to tuck you in: Science Fiction is increasingly literary, according to The New Yorker (thanks, Ted). Let's watch Battlestar Galactica without guilt, shall we?

Secondly, this guy calls a pay phone in the middle of a desert every single day (thanks, Evan). Read the conversations he's had! Why do people do things like this? Oh, so they have something worthwhile to write about on the internet.

Since I have few such things, I shall bid you good night.