by Linda Holmes

Read:

• Things look very grim for the employment of artists, says the NEA -- even more so than for everyone else. The peculiar risk of that, it seems to me, is that artists who become unemployed will leave artistic fields entirely and return to something more stable, and they may or may not return.

• Courtesy of Best Week Ever, The 25 Stupidest Outfits You Will Ever See. I'm not sure they are the stupidest, but they are undoubtedly in the running.

• Concerned about your burgeoning number of Facebook friends and curious about how many friends you can actually have? Hey, there's research on that! (Hat-tip to Lifehacker.)

Snuggies and Jeremy Piven, after the jump...

Note:

• Snuggie Watch: You can't swing a home heating bill at this point without hitting something about the Snuggie. My two recent favorite items: the quick hit at the Freakonomics blog, and this fine takedown at Mark Blankenship's The Critical Condition, where he notes that "to be swayed by its pitch, you have to accept that millions of people are sick and damn tired of the blanket, but they've been helpless to do anything about it... until now."

• Make no mistake: Slumdog Millionaire is now a movie that has made kind of a load of money.

Ignore:

• If I never have to read anything else about the fish intake of Jeremy Piven, I will be a happy person. Well, happier.

categories: Read/Note/Ignore

8:25 - March 5, 2009

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