The Last Poem I Loved: “Poem at the New Year” by John Ashbery
To truly commit a poem to memory is to commit your life to that poem. Out of all the many verses I’ve memorized over the last year, no other has…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What does (the readership of the BBC think) the future holds! In the meantime, it’s time to start drinking our pee probably. I am in love with this history of…
Notable San Francisco: 1/16-122
This week in San Francisco … Monday 1/16: Join International Workers of the World activists and scholars at Green Arcade for a discussion on the recent re-release of Rebel Voices:…
Notable New York, This Week 1/16-1/22
This week in New York, The Black Power Mixtape 1967—1975 at BAM; Grizzly Adams: The Musical; Reverend Billy at Book Court; Why We Broke Up at WORD; The Nervous Breakdown…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’re going to be keeping things low key today. Lest we forget the reason for the season, here’s MLK’s letter to Sammy Davis Jr on the importance of art and…
Science Saturday
Can’t help myself–I’m a sucker for high speed video of birds in flight. There are few things I find more elegant. Russia’s Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt (not making that name up),…
Saturday Morning Links
So winter finally showed up in Des Moines this week. It’s been a nice run, what with temperatures in the 50s, but yesterday it barely got above 20, and I’ve…
Defense For Our Inner Child
“I want to defend the children that we still are inside, the fragile sensitive souls who no matter how much we tried were still told we were not good enough.…
Sugar’s Coming Out Party
Sugar’s Coming Out Party at The Verdi Club in San Francisco! Tuesday, February 14th (Valentine’s Day) at The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa Street), 7pm. Come out to meet Sugar live…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important dinosaur hands news. Data visualizations as self portrait. Behold the classroom-less school (way to go Sweden). Can we all agree that Japanese monsters are the most terrifying? Hello…
That GOOD Lovin’
“Want something more in your mailbox than catalogs and bills? Longing for correspondence more inspiring than an endless stream of text messages and Facebook status updates?” GOOD gave Letters in…