BIO / WRITING / COMEDY / evan.fleischer at gmail dot com var sc_project=5804506; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="9ab62e5b"; Tumblr (3.0; @evanfleischer)http://www.evanfleischer.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6nnoeQkF1rngud3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fsgbooks.tumblr.com/post/17374588440/for-some-of-us-like-me-the-new-online-archive-of">fsgbooks</a>:</p> <p>For some of us—like me—the <a href="http://dl.lib.brown.edu/mjp/journals.html">new online archive of Modernist literary journals</a> is pretty exciting. I mean, how can you resist reading a litmag with a cover like that? </p> <p>(via <a href="http://vol1brooklyn.com/">Vol. 1 Brooklyn</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17391069735http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17391069735Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:52:35 -0500<p>Though the content of this might be changing (which — I think it’s fair to say — any reasonable person would expect), <a href="http://therumpus.net/2012/02/readers-report-back-from%E2%80%A6-new-beginnings/">I have something new in The Rumpus</a>.</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17390803073http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17390803073Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:47:00 -0500<a href="http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000722598">Reuters, NBC, Fox, CBS Renting Tel Aviv Rooftops In Preparation For Israel-Iran War</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://journalofajournalist.com/post/17355320993/reuters-nbc-fox-cbs-renting-tel-aviv-rooftops-in">journalofajournalist</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Interesting link from <em>Globes</em>, Israel’s main business program. News outlets such as Reuters have been renting rooftops in Tel Aviv; television news producers have also been making arrangements for Iran-Israel war coverage. Article’s Hebrew-only, but Google Translate gives the gist.</p> </blockquote>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17355805645http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17355805645Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:43:00 -0500<p>I might be in your fair city come the week of the 19th. Any chance I might get to meet any of you?</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17329636795http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17329636795Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:13:11 -0500baratundebuzzfeedtodayinycopendatareuterscarnerossthepit-nycshannonpareiloccupywallstreetjskagoninothernewsmarypilontpmmediabrooklynmutttomjollybuongiornonickrizzomarkcoatneyalexbalkrachelfershleiserjessbennettbraikernyrbclassicsfwrictionlongformorgthetakeawaykelsfjordtheparisreviewrubenfeldvanityfair<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq5gd2zpad1r1io1co1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thegetty.tumblr.com/post/9101699502/los-angeles-1964-garry-winogrand-american">thegetty</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Los Angeles</em>, 1964. Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984). Gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. © 1984 The Estate of Garry Winogrand.</p> <p><em>In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945-1980</em></p> <p><a href="http://www.getty.edu/news/press/pacific_standard_time/index.html"><strong>PACIFIC STANDARD TIME at the GETTY CENTER</strong></a></p> </blockquote> <p>The Getty’s on tumblr!</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17232776091http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17232776091Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:32:32 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/se7459-cCxE?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>If you’ve never heard this song before, do me a favor: take a listen and be pleasantly surprised.</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17220255536http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17220255536Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:53:17 -0500<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_OBIT_WWI_VETERAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Florence Green Dies.</a>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17211936702http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17211936702Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:57:20 -0500<a href="http://lat.ms/yuPc8r">Schools chief announces entire Miramonte staff to be replaced</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://latimes.tumblr.com/post/17191945213/miramonte">latimes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>L.A. Unified Supt. John Deasy has announced that the entire staff at Miramonte Elementary School will be replaced to help restore confidence in the South L.A. campus where two teachers were recently arrested on lewd conduct charges.</p> </blockquote>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17192033737http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17192033737Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:26:12 -0500<p>Best news headline of the day: “<a href="http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/02/06/kai-ce-qui-pousse-les-femmes-iraniennes-a-devenir-des-ninjas/#xtor=RSS-3208">What drives Iranian women to become ninjas</a>.”</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17154696152http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17154696152Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:18:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/avUUVeq35bg?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Meanwhile.</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17141367753http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17141367753Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:23:12 -0500<a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper-spray_projectile">More info on pepperballs from Josh.</a>: <p>(See below.)</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17141112836http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17141112836Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:17:36 -0500umass<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyygwfcG5A1qavtjjo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Checking with Josh to see if that’s true or not, given what I’ve seen some of the students tweet.</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17140641393http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17140641393Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:07:00 -0500umass<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyyfopHLpj1qavtjjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A photo from UMass — <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/BRWNBARBIEBITCH/status/166373890174619648/photo/1">via</a>.<br/><br/>Update: 11:52PM: here’s the <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Zoomass">#zoomass hash tag</a>, which sees one student mention “<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/KallyLiolios/status/166375496475611137">the casual use of the first aid kit</a>” and another write of a “<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ANiz05/status/166379393302806528">broken knuckle and sprained wrist</a>.”<br/><br/>Update: 12:26AM: “The relative ease with which police broke up the gathering tonight made University spokesman Edward Blaguzewski hesitant to use the word riot, telling local media authorities were dealing ‘with a large crowd and there was a need to issue a dispersal orderto move them along.’” (<a href="http://www.observer.com/2012/02/umass-amherst-students-riot-after-patriots-super-bowl-loss-video/">via</a>.)</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17139384255http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17139384255Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:41:00 -0500umass<a href="http://www.wggb.com/2012/02/05/students-arrested-following-umass-riot/">6 Arrests at UMass Amherst.</a>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17138900861http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17138900861Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:31:38 -0500umass<p>According to <a href="http://see-you-forever.tumblr.com/">this</a> tumblr user, the SWAT team’s leaving UMass Amherst and one student has been arrested, though I’ve yet to confirm that. And there’s another UMass tumblr student — <a href="http://deadsoulscalling.tumblr.com/post/17137825291/how-are-things-there-now-calmed-down-a-bit">this one</a> — who says that things are pretty quiet now.</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17138768732http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17138768732Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:29:00 -0500umass“I’m actually not there right now. I went home because I knew that the riot was going to happen. From Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr accounts … it seems as though the riot police has dispersed the majority of the crowd and has created blockades to all the buildings. I’ve also heard that they’ve been using tear gas and rubber bullets towards the students”<br/><br/> - <em>Tumblr user/UMass Amherst student <a href="http://allymickey.tumblr.com/">allymickey</a>, answering a query from me.</em>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17138266096http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17138266096Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:19:09 -0500umass<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TVkB-21Fq4Q?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://deadsoulscalling.tumblr.com/post/17137929383/another-video-showing-the-tear-gas">deadsoulscalling</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Another video showing the tear gas </p> </blockquote> <p>UMass Amherst.</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17138160282http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17138160282Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:17:00 -0500<a href="http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/3642/a-year-in-the-life-of-egypts-media_a-2011-timeline">A Year in the Life of Egyptian Media: 2011. (Jadaliyya.)</a>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17128864149http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17128864149Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:34:45 -0500egypt<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ghostorballoon.tumblr.com/post/17127630816/evanfleischer-i-have-this-on-mute-so-im-just">ghostorballoon</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17127455618/i-have-this-on-mute-so-im-just-assuming">evanfleischer</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I have this on mute, so I’m just assuming Madonna’s reciting Plautus and Terrence.</p> </blockquote> <p>You’re missing out, she discovered a cache of never before seen Caecilius fragments and she’s reading all the funniest parts. </p> </blockquote>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17127873500http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17127873500Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:17:00 -0500<p>I have this on mute, so I’m just assuming Madonna’s reciting Plautus and Terrence.</p>http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17127455618http://www.evanfleischer.com/post/17127455618Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:09:58 -0500