A fistful of bullet points

• MetaFilter has a thread on Moleskine notebooks, which seem to be catching on among us paper fetishists. I love my small Moleskine sketchpad. It has a cover tough enough to stand up to life in my back pocket, an elastic band to keep my pen from slipping in and munging the pages, a bookmark to mark where I left off, a handy pouch in the back cover, and opens out flat so I can scan my sketches. And the paper’s thick enough to cope with light watercolor washes.
• Rumor has it that Apple’s planning to release a pro-level word processor with 100% import-export compatibility with MS Word. I’ll believe it when I see it.
• One recent ex-Missourian is in for an unpleasant surprise.
• I can’t figure out this Gawker piece about Australian Ugg boots. These things don’t look ugly to me. In fact, they look simple, functional, and comfortable. If they sold as cheap over here as they do downunda (about $30) I’d probably buy a pair. They don’t look like something I’d expect a svelte supermodel to wear, but that’s not my primary aesthetic criterion.
• Just when you think you’ve seen all the surprises the Net has to offer, it tosses up something like Hasidic Gentiles. Thanks, Teresa.

Conjunctions reading tonight

womzilla AIMed my attention to an event at the New School tonight:

CONJUNCTIONS READING
Fantasy and horror fiction masters gather to celebrate Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists, a landmark anthology of new writing published by Bard College at this event on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. This multi-media event will feature readings by John Crowley, Kelly Link, China Mieville, Peter Straub, as well as a solo musical performance by Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt. Hosted by legendary cartoonist Gahan Wilson. This event is sponsored by The New School Writing Program. Admission is free. For more information, call 212-229-5611.

New School. 66 Fifth Avenue (near 12th St), in the main Tischman auditorium.