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Posted on May 27, 2007 - Filed Under , | 1 Comment
For a long time, I’ve been kind of skeptical about “graphic novels.” I’ve had *many* friends who were big fans. They’ve encouraged me to loosen up and give comics a chance. For years, however, I’ve held back. My friends have tried to get me to do lots of things over the [...]
Read More..>>Duende
Posted on May 26, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
I love Lorca, but I have to laugh at this (in the grimmest way): “Spain is the only country where death is a national spectacle.” Maybe he was right when he said it in 1933. Thinking about “nationalist poetry” as Rbt. Archambeau has recently assessed it, I’ve been circling around the notion that [...]
Read More..>>From Burton
Posted on May 25, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
I say with Didacus Stella, “A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.”
Read More..>>Some people call me Doc McCollough
Posted on May 15, 2007 - Filed Under | 2 Comments
Read More..>>Ye Olde Day of Reckoning-ee
Posted on May 15, 2007 - Filed Under | 3 Comments
Here I sit, in a pair of jeans and a shirt that I bought at the Salvation Army on saturday (the first time I’ve ever bought ‘an outfit’ at a thrift store rather than just a stray t-shirt or a busted keyboard, etc.), mentally preparing for today’s central activity: my dissertation defense. I’m not [...]
Read More..>>New Journal: Saltgrass
Posted on May 13, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Just got this notice from Julia Cohen, whose poems appeared in GutCult Winter 2005. She has just released a new journal. Have a look.
Hi Lovely Poets & Friends of Poets,
I’m pleased to let you know that our first issue of Saltgrass is hot
off the press. So hot it burns & burns so good.
We’re [...]
Do You Like Dissertations?
Posted on May 13, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Well…here’s my Dissertation Abstract. Soon to be available on ProQuest/UMI’s dissertation database. Please try not to crowd each other as you scramble to purchase a copy.
As many scholars have pointed out, early modern people did not imagine their emotional worlds to be clearly distinguishable from the workings of their bodily economies. Far [...]
28 Disappointments Later
Posted on May 12, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Despite some nice moments, the 28 Days Later sequel is pretty much a bummer in my book. The reviews have been fairly favorable, and I guess I wouldn’t discourage people from going, but this movie is deeply inferior to the original. The first movie was, to be sure, a genre picture, but it [...]
Read More..>>Do you like things that are good for you?
Posted on May 11, 2007 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
If bored with current music lineup, try Pandora, which employs the Music Genome Project’s data to produce streaming audio for you that suits your particular taste at the moment. Last time I used it, it was free. I think you just have to “sign up,” which comes at the cost of some personal [...]
Read More..>>Lost in May
Posted on May 10, 2007 - Filed Under | 1 Comment
Is Lost getting good again, or am I just forgetting how good it was initially? I like the move back towards surreal and quasi-supernatural mystery in the last couple of episodes. The return of the idea that the whole cast might actaully be “dead” is a welcome one. I don’t think they [...]
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