May 2012
6 posts
D. Lessing on what novels are now
Reblogged from Botched & Ecstatic:
During that period of three months when I wrote reviews, reading ten or more books a week, I made a discovery: that the interest with which I read these books had nothing to do with what I feel when I read—let’s say—Thomas Mann, the last of the writers in the old sense, who used the novel for philosophical statements about life. The point is, that the...
The Raymond Chandler Primer for Mysteries | |... →
January 2012
2 posts
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December 2011
8 posts
MarkPritchard: Ron Paul unclear on concept that... →
Robin as the "Girl Wonder" →
I’ll bet Robin wished he had a pair like that.
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November 2011
1 post
October 2011
34 posts
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Today's fake: Indians imitate San Francisco... →
In San Francisco, an institution known as the Academy of Art University is highly visible around town. Its advertisements are plastered on Muni buses, its own shuttle buses ferry students around the central city, and its logo appears on numerous buildings devoted to classes, workshops, dorms, or other, more vague purposes.
A tourist or newcomer might be excused for thinking the Academy of Art...
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NYT: Police Clashes Spur Coverage of Wall Street... →
Research by the NY Times political news column FiveThirtyEight finds that media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests has increased since demonstrators clashed with the police, and is beginning to rival coverage given to Tea Party protests in 2009.
keithwj: tUnE-yArDs! (Taken with Instagram at NPR Headquarters)
– NPR
Happy birthday, Friends of the Urban Forest!
Friends of the Urban Forest photographed the first streets trees they planted 30 years ago.
Flickr set at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendsoftheurbanforest/sets/72157627700670483/
Hula hooping lasso trick →
"Gold" by Delay trees →
Celebrating John Lennon’s 71st Birthday With Seven... →
The seven songs are:
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
Well, Well, Well (not to be confused with “Long-Haired Lady” on McCartney’s solo album “Ram,” which begins with the words “Well, well, well, well, well!”)
One Day (At a Time)
Meat City
Just Because
Stepping Out (No doubt completely unrelated to the Phoebe Snow cut)
I Don’t Want to...
The Raven: John Cusack's Brilliantly Strange... →
Roberto Bolaño, a huge Poe fan and also a fan of detectives and noir, would love it, I hope. #visceralrealists
Blessedly Imperfect Studio Work: 'Eclipse Series... →
Big Names Should Work On Small Games (Moving... →
I only tag this because I dig the picture.