of interest

Once again, The Smoking Gun is an awesome news source. They broke the news that the LA Times "Pulitzer-prize winner Chuck Phillips" was duped by some white guy in prison over P. Diddy's involvement in Tupac Shakur's death. The LA Times had to apologize this morning, and there may be a lawsuit.

Unrelated, but relevant: Via Maud Newton - Chris Lehmann on "Victim 'Hood" and Tayari Jones' "There's A Sucker Born Every Minute".

For my artsy friends: Adobe Photoshop Express Beta is free (for now) - you get 2 gigs of space for your photos. Woohoo!

Tonight I go see Jennifer 8. Lee at Pasadena's Vroman's, where she's going to be talking about her new book Fortune Cookie Chronicles. It's mostly about how Chinese American food (shocker) isn't really Chinese.