Wednesday, February 24, 2010
is here. I look forward to a bit of leisure to read some of these. Thanks to Seth Roberts, who is getting increasingly deranged, but still worth listening to with one ear.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Cory Doctorow is such a phenomenon that I don’t even know how to hyperlink him – sci fi writer, editor/founder of Boing Boing, intellectual property reformist. Most pertinent to my own life, he was a teacher at Clarion West 2008, which perhaps you know. More pertinent than that, he’s the reason I went [...]
It’s pissing rain this morning, so though I have in the last ten days given up caffeine, the coffee shop calls to me as a waypoint that might eliminate further soaking. One block from the coffee shop lurks what once was the second-best used bookstore I had ever known, The Book House. I [...]
My favorite prof at USC, Irv Biederman, wrote a paper in which he coined the term “infovore.” An infovore is what you’d expect: an entity that lives by consuming information. I am a serious infovore. If we use basketball as a metaphor (and don’t we always) I’d say that in terms of [...]
Pal, gracious host, and “Youngest Broadway Propmaster in NYC” Scott selects books for me. Possibly because he thinks I might enjoy them. Possibly to improve my execrable sense of culture and taste. The latter two causes are likely lost, but the books _have_ been enjoyable, both for pure reading pleasure and as [...]
The lovely and talented Pam shared this article with me about the craftmanship and art of sentence construction. Pam’s comment, offered alongside the article, was “Shane Porn.”
Articles like this are indeed practically porn to me, but maybe not for the reasons Pam thinks. I read the first essay by Gary Lutz (the one [...]
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Sinclair Lewis writes really well. And for Minnesotans, he’s One of Us, so that makes him an even better writer. Here’s how Main Street starts:
On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw [...]
The names had the sound of the History Channel: Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok Atoll, Guam. His father had been to each during the Second World War and he, the son, had never known about it. Fifty-one years he’d been alive and to find out who his father had been he had to get like [...]
Among my many issues is the one-two punch of my unwillingness to start things, and my inability to finish things. These traits, more than anything else in my life, have brought me to the sorry condition in which you find me. But at least I’m still fighting.
As evidence of this last I offer [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Well, I have just come across some information that pretty much guarantees the pilot episode of “A Game of Thrones” will get picked up for at least a full first season. The producers of the pilot are posting on the Westeros message boards and they have just revealed that the pilot’s final line of dialogue before [...]