The Anti-Café, and Other News

Are its days numbered? Photo: Airair, via Wikimedia Commons.

In London, the anti-café has arrived. It’s a place where you pay about a nickel a minute to sit around and drink free coffee. Will the intelligentsia cotton to it? We’ll keep you posted.
Golden Globes be damned—yesterday also saw the announcement of the National Book Critics Circle award nominations.
If you must transpose real people into fictional avatars, heed Christopher Isherwood’s advice: “You can question their morals, call them liars, expose them as thieves—as long as you describe them as attractive.”
Arthur Schopenhauer: post-Kantian metaphysician, notorious curmudgeon, prophetic technofuturist?
The Supreme Court is about to argue semantics. Among the prickly issues to be addressed: what does happen mean?

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