No place is safe from the unmarriage movement: MM is guerilla marketing his book to T riders in Boston. Perhaps this can be incorporated into the Craigslist Language?
· Metro [cohabitationation.com via mop phone call]
· Bizarre Secret Craig’s List Language [gawker]

USA Today discovers meta. (Insofar as the author of the article attended Brown, we’re thinking this must be a tad tongue in cheek.)
· Hipsters Never Met Meta-Hyperbole They Didn’t Like [usatoday via MBS]

One year later, and a mere eight months after deadline, the renovated north side station of the Delancey Street F Train re-opened this past weekend. Just imagine: New poured concrete floors. Walls of brushed metal. An upscale shopping boutique. The new Jean Georges burgers-and-beer comfort food emporium. Actually, there are none of these things. But the escalator works again and the old joint does look a little cleaner. The long nightmare for Rivington residents is over.

Some fresh scenery over at Josh‘s web presence.
· JoshAlbertson.com [joshalbertson.com]

Deal Lunch offers a good peek at the direction of literary fiction. It seems the sprawling modern novel is getting, well, more sprawling.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop student Robert Rosenberg’s first novel SHAKE THE EARTH ON WHICH I STANDS, both a love story and a
contemporary parable of people caught between the call of age-old traditions and the allure of the modern world, set in the years following
the fall of the Soviet Union, interweaving the stories of an entrepreneurial Kyrgyz man and his beautiful daughter, an idealistic U.S. aid worker, and a young Apache man trying to get as far as possible from the reservation, brought together by fate in Istanbul, Turkey, on the eve of the tragic earthquake of 1999, to Heidi Pitlor at Houghton Mifflin, in a very good deal, in a pre-empt, by Dorian Karchmar at Lowenstein-Yost (NA).

Best Gawker post ever.
· Tease Marketing [gawker.com]

I’d been following this tale on FC earlier this week, but Nick Denton has the goods on a hilarious memo gone very wrong.
· Julie Meyer and the Missing Stationery [nickdenton.org]
· The Missing Stationery [internalmemos.com]

Sometimes, I think the only person who enjoys reality TV more than me (or Basta) is Matt Drudge:

AMERICAN IDOL’ [17.5 RATING/24 SHARE] ROCKETS FOX [15.5/22] /// MURDOCH NET PULLED IN NEARLY DOUBLE THE AUDIENCE OF ITS CLOSEST COMPETITORS [NBC [9.2/13]; ABC [8.4/12]; CBS [6.9/10]] WEDNESDAY NIGHT… ABC’S ‘BACHELORETTE’ [9.1/13] LATEST CASUALTY OF ‘IDOL’; ‘WEST WING’ [7.9/11] FROZEN OUT; CBS ’60 MINS 2′ [6.8/10] BACKROWED… ‘IDOL’ MAX 28 SHARE LOS ANGELES; 28 CHICAGO; 32 SHARE DALLAS… MORE…

JVG is revving up the Book of Ages hype machine. Brace yourself. Only nine months until publication. (Personal to focus group members: A cover has been chosen. The first one.)
· Book of Ages Sneak Preview [jvg.com]
· Book of Ages [bookofages.com] coming someday: actual content!

Aaron Bailey ups the ante with Google molestation.
· More Google Molestation [601am.com]