The best TV series of the 00s. I'm sad to say my record is 24/30, including the entire top fifteen. Via @drbluman.

Shoot the Projectionist reads Foucault's "What Is An Author?" against one of my favorite novels of the '00s, House of Leaves.

American Stranger has a long-form take on the question he posed the other night in my living room: What have been the great cultural innovations since the 1990s? Are there any?

Question of the night (hat-tip: Ryan): What have been the great cultural innovations since the 1990s? Are there any? We struggled for an hour tonight to find something more noteworthy than "YouTube" or "text messages/status updates." These are platforms more than cultural forms.

"Blogs" (as cultural form, not platform) come closest, but even these really originate in the homepages of the '90s...