In the American Grain
by William Carlos Williams
has just been reissued by New Directions with a new introduction by Rick Moody. My review of it is in the October issue of elimae.
The Newspaper Redesigned
It looks an awful lot like a good blog design, don’t it?
Untitled 1
I just bought this piece by Derrick Mosley to help fund his trip to Cambridge to work on a Newton essay.
Chip Kidd has a band?
I am probably late in the game with this: Artbreak (via)
I honestly don’t know what to say.
Cowboy del Amor
Deron and I just saw this last night. The part in the movie where he reads letters from women who think his service sucks is reason enough to see the film.
Barack Obama, College Administrator
Polemical conservatism? Yes. Interesting take on Obama’s leadership style? Yes. Well written? Meh. Excellent cultural analysis of the coast’s totalizing view of the Midwest? Very yes.*
For many in the academic community who have not worked with their hands, run businesses, or ventured far off campus, Middle America is an exotic place inhabited by aborigines who bowl, don’t eat arugula, and need to be reminded to inflate their tires. They are an emotional lot, of some value on campus for their ability to “fix” broken things like pipes and windows, but otherwise wisely ignored.
Substantive arguments against the Adminstration’s policies? No.
*NB: I am a Princeton townie who also spent more than my far share of time in California but currently lives in Saint Louis, MO.
Tanya Davis – Art
Heard It on a Nature Program About Ants
The weight of all ants on the planet is equivalent to the weight of all humans on earth.
I wish I hadn’t heard that.
Hitler is informed about the title of Sarah Palin’s book
This Hitler Parody borrows heavily from the actual Harper Collins press release.
Hands Free
Great shot by Nicolas Nova
the blobfish
The fish, which resembles a candle that’s been burning for way too long, consumes whatever tasty morsels bob by its mouth, choosing to eat what’s served to it.
If you’re interested
I have two pieces of fiction in the just-posted “Halloween Tales” section of Grey Sparrow Journal. “Christabel’s Dread” is part prose, part verse, and is excerpted from my novella Christabel: a Fiction. “On the Waves” is a short story from the collection I’m working on called Dr Fenech’s Guide to Lycanthropy in Malta (1913). The Introduction to Christabel is scheduled for the next issue of Sleeping Fish, but this is the only selection from Dr Fenech currently scheduled anywhere.
The Espresso Book Machine
A video that I found while working on my latest Lone Gunman post.
quote out of context
“There’s a word here I don’t know,” said The Times’ wordsmith. “What is a thong?”
the Obama problem
Here is the full text of John L. Perry’s column on Newsmax which suggests that a military coup to “resolve the Obama problem” is becoming more possible and is not “unrealistic.” Perry also writes that a coup, while not “ideal,” may be preferable to “Obama’s radical ideal” — and would “restore and defend the Constitution.” Newsmax has since removed the column from its website.
the purpose of Apple’s tablet computer
Some I’ve talked to believe the initial content will be mere translations of text to tablet form. But while the idea of print on the Tablet is enticing, it’s nothing the Kindle or any E-Ink device couldn’t do. The eventual goal is to have publishers create hybridized content that draws from audio, video, interactive graphics in books, magazines and newspapers, where paper layouts would be static. And with release dates for Microsoft’s Courier set to be quite far away and Kindle stuck with relatively static e-ink, it appears that Apple is moving towards a pole position in distribution of this next-generation print content. First, it’ll get its feet wet with more basic repurposing of the stuff found on dead trees today.
Sorry
I posted the wrong link. This is Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter.
Art on the roof
Phosphorescent Torso | In the Spirit of Renner
Oblique homage to which the head of a cream-faced loon might be attached.
Going Rogue: An American Life
Sarah Palin’s 400 page memoir will be released four months after she signed the contract. Speculation mounted as to how she was able to write the book so quickly. Turns out, the answer was fairly pedestrian. Sarah Palin had a ghostwriter.
Antony And The Johnsons – Hope There’s Someone
You may have all seen this; if so I am sorry. It has infected my head for a while now.
Windows
I am an ecumenical OS user at the moment, but this is still funny and sort of true:
I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and there’s nothing you can do about it. OK, OK: I know other operating systems are available. But their advocates seem even creepier, snootier and more insistent than Mac owners. The harder they try to convince me, the more I’m repelled. To them, I’m a sheep. And they’re right. I’m a helpless, stupid, lazy sheep. I’m also a masochist. And that’s why I continue to use Windows – horrible Windows – even though I hate every second of it. It’s grim, it’s slow, everything’s badly designed and nothing really works properly: using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I wouldn’t change it for the world, because I’m an abject bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life.
via Gruber
Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack
Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack (via fimoculous)
Hummingbirds again
dear clusterflock
What’s your theme song?