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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Alison Flood, writing in The Guardian implores her fellow citizens to vote in the BBC’s poll for the nation’s favorite poet. She’s worried that there will be a rehash of 1995, when Britain chose Rudyard Kipling’s “If” as its favorite…
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One Way Translation Matters
A German court recently ruled that Nazi slogans translated into a language other than German would not necessarily run afoul of that nation’s anti-Nazi laws. According to the article, the court’s argument was that “that translating the words represented a…
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Shameless Self-Promotion
Self, in this case, being a member of The Rumpus, not me personally. Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants, the blog How to Party With an Infant and our very own Bad Mommy Blog, is having her novel made…
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Are these really advances?
I think I mixed some Haterade in with my coffee this morning, because the technology news has me shaking my head and wondering if some of these things being touted as breakthroughs are really all that awesome. Rik Fairlie at…
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Study Confirms Existence of the Itis
Aaron Magruder Creator of The Boondocks, must feel vindicated by food science these days. A study in the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology seems to confirm the existence of a phenomenon Magruder described in Season…
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Saturday Morning Links
Morning, everyone. Here are some links to get your weekend started. I suspect that I’ll never be buying in a bar where bartenders harvest the grain that makes their spirits. I was a bartender while in college, and I didn’t…
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A Theory of Social Justice
I’ve previously mentioned The Examined Life, the film and book that examines the views of eight contemporary philosophers, and after watching the film American Casino yesterday — which investigates the subprime lending scandal and presents some awful examples of social…
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Choose Your Own “Adventure”
In his post “The Limits of Narrative” Mark Pritchard links to Alison Flood’s recent article “How I learned to cheat at reading” in which she writes “It was the Choose Your Own Adventure books that led me astray.” Flood admitted…
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Grandmaster of 108
“Born in Greece and raised on West 71st Street in Manhattan, Kessler started skateboarding when he was 11. This was in the 1970s, a time when skateboarding was so alien to New York City that he had to mail-order his…
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Morning Coffee
Filling in for Dan this week, I feel almost as though I’ve become him. This man stole identities using Limewire. My method is superior. If anyone wants to try and prove I’m not Dan, feel free to try sequencing my…
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Details on DFW’s Pale King
As you probably already know, David Foster Wallace left an unfinished novel called The Pale King upon his death. Today Tim Martin of the Telegraph UK wrote a remembrance of DFW that, among many other things, includes details of the…
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The Lures of a Younger Land
I live in a young country but it seems like we’ve aged like no other place in the world, despite our obscene superabundance. Nowhere is this more apparent than in what we eat and how we eat. And right now…