Seattle Public Library published a great list of audiobooks read by Seattle-area performers. What a great idea for a local angle on a medium that feels very detached from place.

We've heard that Scry Magazine, the self-described " locus for interconnected, unpredictable, and substantive conversation between Editor Quintan Ana Wikswo and transdisciplinary artists, activists, creators, scientists, shamans, thinkers, soldiers, transgalactic interlopers, philosophical perambulators, and otherlings," which went on hiatus last year, is about to start back up again. Read more on Quintan Ana Wikswo's Facebook page.

If you just want to stop absorbing terrible information about the world for a moment and laugh, Justin Tapp's Chili's menu as reimagined by Cormac McCarthy is extra-hilarious. (Thanks to SRoB tipper Aaron for sending this on.)

I was at the GOP Convention in 2012 when Clint Eastwood pulled his "talking-to-a-chair" schtick. It was even weirder in real life than it was on TV. But still: just because Eastwood is a conservative weirdo doesn't mean his art is invalid. However, Eastwood's latest movie, Richard Jewell, reportedly fictionalizes a true story by depicting a real-life journalist — who has long since died and can't defend herself — having sex with an FBI agent in exchange for inside information. This is low. The fact that Jewell poses as an indictment of the media for falsifying a story only makes the whole thing even worse. Every story is political, but not every story is a political tool. It seems like Eastwood crossed that line here.