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Temporarily Clearing the Dust
Christ on a Caddy, it's been ages! But some things never change, so here I am posting a list, instead of a more substantial entry about the wonderful worlds of marriage, studying, teaching, fatherhood, etc. Next time. But for now:
Five Books I've Been Reading About, Trying to Imagine What It's Like to Read Them
- Mystery Train by David Wojahn
- For ( Read more... )
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5 x 3 ( + 2)
Is le nouveau roman really as humorless as Donald Barthelme says it is? Regardless of whether or not this assessment is valid, I wish I had the time to get into him. I'm grateful for this wonderful resource, and I wish I could unearth the tattered but shamefully unread copy of The King I bought ages ago.
When I first heard mention of Repo!, I had ( Read more... ) -
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Five Poems from This Site:
- "Do the Dead Know What Time It is?" by Kenneth Patchen
- "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath
- "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note" by Amiri Baraka
- "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem" by Ishmael Reed
- "Why I am Not a Painter" by Frank O'Hara
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Here! Come! The Drums!
It's already October 14 in this part of the world, but there's no sign of anything...yet.
If you read the original message and the subsequent channellings received by, um, Blossom Goodchild (!), you might indeed want to keep your eyes to the skies, guys...but if you're anything like me, you'll probably do so with an attitude wholly different from ( Read more... ) -
Link Dump: Light and Fun(ny)
Three Web pages that made me laugh this morning:
These days, I'm more a fan of Star Wars fandom than Star Wars itself, so I really enjoyed the following entries from my new favorite blog. Be sure to click on the links at the bottom of each:
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Mostly SF
Black Cover isn't related to SF at all, despite how it sounds. It IS rather geeky in its own right though, being all about "the search for the perfect little black dress notebook."
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Make 'Im Laugh
Some things Cole finds amusing:
- the sound of Dalek voices, as I've previously mentioned
- the way April and I squeal in dismay after he dribbles milk on his clothes
- my irritatingly nasal impression of a horn playing "The Internationale"
- watching the music videos of David Bowie (this I just discovered today)
- the main melody of the theme to The ( Read more... )
