* Today’s Strange Tales Spotlight: Jonathan Jay Lee. You might not have heard of him before–I hadn’t–but his work sure looks lovely.

* Beware the savage lure of Matt Wiegle’s 1984.

* Get this: Two Kentucky librarians refused to allow an 11-year-old to check out The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen because they thought it was “pornography”…and they got fired for it! Regardless of the wisdom of letting your 11-year-old read Alan Moore’s Mina Murray/Allan Quartermain May-December fanfic, you have to admit it’s delightful to see the kinds of nitwits who’d label this book “pornographic” get shitcanned for it.

* I’m not reading this until I see the movie, and god only knows when that will be (The Hurt Locker, A Serious Man, Zombieland, etc.), but for what it’s worth, the estimable Rich Juzwiak has titled his review of Paranormal Activity “Believe the hype”.

* I read Devin Friedman’s GQ profile of Von Dutch/Ed Hardy mastermind Christian Audigier in the pharmacy yesterday and realized that if you combine it with The New Yorker‘s James Cameron profile and Bronson Pinchot’s (ongoing!) tell-all interview(s), you get a sort of group portrait of contemporary Hollywood awfulness. (Pinchot link via Whitney Matheson.)

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