Go buy the alt-country album “Toot Toot Boom Boom,” by Meatyard, which includes my friends Josh Welsh and Molly Hansen. Love this album, self-described as “songs for people who read the obits.”
Check out the new autobiography by Josh Axelrad, “Repeat Until Rich,” in which he tells all about his years as a pro card counter. He’s the only person I know whose ever had a professional reason to wear a fake moustache (I think)
Michaela Watkins does Arianna Huffington.
Emily Klein has co-authored a book! Here is the synopsis:
Since it was first invented, Americans have been trying to re-design the American high school. One of the latest approaches – funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – is to find inventive high school designs that work well in one location and replicate them in other locations. The authors of this book followed a design team from Big Picture Learning as it worked to do exactly this, recording the challenges it faced, and the strategies it employed. Their accessible and entertaining account of Big Picture’s work is laced with stories about “scaling up” by other school design teams, and in other enterprises beyond high school. Based on careful research, the book is both a practical guide to a new dimension of school reform, and also an interesting read for anyone interested in school change.
Buy it here!
Rent Kabluey! written, directed by and starring Scott Prendergast
