I think writing about the past week or so is still just a little beyond me. Or maybe we should just say I'm exploring my other modalities...

For this week's Jubilee Read... Alan Bennett's Uncommon Reader about what happens when QEII discovers literature in mobil library ( Read more... )

Brilliant interview with author Marilynn Robinson on John Calvin ( Read more... )

Reposted from FB, this Ben Hatke robot comic (courtesy of the beautiful sdn)
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It brought to mind Samuel Taylor Coelridge's Lime Tree Bower My PrisonRead more... )

Finally, this op-ed about Nuns on the Frontier opened a whole new world of imagination for me. Not exactly Death Comes for the Archbishop, nor Two Mules for Sister Sara (which, despite its many failings, has a very sexy arrow removal scene. Go Clint!) But a sincere wish that Timothy Egan was writing better pieces on his West beat... His writing ( Read more... )

In other news, if the death of Maurice Sendak was not enough, this week Jean Craighead George died ( Read more... )

In calling upon us to care about and answer to those "strange strangers" that live on and with us - including the teeming colonies of bacteria in the crooks of our elbows, the worms that render earth livable for humans, and the foodstuffs that nourish and give shape to our bodies - Morton and Bennett seek to make visible, and palpable, the "mesh" ( Read more... )

I told Brother about visiting the Yves Saint Laurent exhibit and he switched almost immediately to one of my favorite designers John Paul Gautier. "He's been doing some really weird stuff lately," he said.

"He always does weird stuff," I said, but realized I hadn't checked in on the latest collections.

( Clips behind the cut... )

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/30/thoreaus-walden-the-video-game/

Ian Bogost (creator of a Zen game) has not weighed in yet, but he did have several wonderful posts this week, including one on convincing spambots commenting in his blog:

There's ( Read more... )

There's a lot more I wanted to fit into this review, but I'm happy with those things I was able to fit in despite the limitations of the form and forum ( Read more... )

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