Awl or Nothing

Clearly, everybody's new favorite website is The Awl, the delightfully (or not-so-delightfully) low-tech, low- and high-culture smartypants venture from former Gawker-ers Alex Balk and Choire Sicha. Last week, they noted an anecdote about taco trucks in Walla Walla suffering from a severe drop in business over fears of swine flu. Today, they direct us to a meandering thinkpiece in The Rumpus--Stephen Elliott's new online culture mag, which recently hosted an event at the NWFF--about the trials and tribulations of being mistaken for someone famous (and larger issues of identity in These Modern Times™) that kicks off with a story about Lynn Shelton's My Effortless Brilliance. Once again, we are all connected on the internets.