October 2011
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September 2011
4 posts
33 Price Tags of Ignorance →
…Two If By Sea, and I On the Opposite Side Shall... →
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“Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was...”
– Haruki Murakami, the author of this week’s story, “Town of Cats,” talking to the magazine’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Click through for the rest of their chat. (via newyorker)
August 2011
2 posts
Educate Yourself Every Day: Great ideas! →
Why haven't I got me second Pottermore email!?!
iamtheunworthybean:
Oh yeah, thats why…
April 2011
2 posts
“900 thousand children die every month because of poverty: not one of them is...”
– —UNICEF, 2009
What does Cuba get right? I am Cuba-bound this July to find out!
March 2011
2 posts
On Thor, Tsunamis, and Daikaijū →
February 2011
7 posts
Bronner's Disease
As she walked by, she said, “I have to get out of here before my eyes start to bleed.”
I was already dizzy. Disorientation was setting in as one more mirror of starbursts yielded to another room of them. I knew I had passed Section 8 before, but was no longer certain when.
And I knew that my companion was was showing the early signs of Stage II when she said, “Oh, but these...
“Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are...”
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Miss you, buddy.
WatchMikhail Bakhtin applies dialogic criticism to images of Pocahontas
“And there was shame in being human: the shame of knowing that twenty of the...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer on seafood production (via meladams)
WatchMikhail Bakhtin offers Pocahontas the basics of Dialogic criticism.
January 2011
3 posts
Derrida Meets Arnold 3: Blooper Reel →
What Our Constitution and Huck Finn Have in Common →
“The reason to include the superseded text is to remind us that the Constitution, while a remarkable document, was not carved out of stone tablets by a finger of light at the summit of Mount Sinai. It was written by men, and despite its promise, it possessed flaws at the moment of its creation that still reverberate today.”
—From Slate.com’s “Constitutional...
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Derrida Meets Arnold III: The Courtroom
Arnold takes Derrida before the Law in a final showdown between tradition and deconstruction.
December 2010
6 posts
WatchDerrida Meets Arnold II
Derrida confronts his own paradox in Times Square.
Leonard's Score
I didn’t know that Leonard Rosenman died two years ago. If so, I would have written to ask sooner, “Did you really write only one score for 105 films and just recycle it with each new contract?
I first encountered Rosenman’s work with the 1977 animated The Lord of the Rings. It’s a great work, and I found it again with a digital clean-up and re-balancing that...
WatchWhat happens when deconstruction meets traditional historicism?
November 2010
5 posts
In the Spirit of a Holiday →
The Real Junk with the TSA →
“Fireplace Logs:
NEW Bark-less!”
– On a shrink-wrapped 10 pd bag of wood at Kroger.
Rindercella →
October 2010
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September 2010
1 post
Internet Kills the Oxford English Dictionary →
The Daily Telegraph uses the word “kills,” but here, perhaps, is an enormous symbol in the shifting paradigm between static and digital texts.
The OED3 writers have been working on the new edition for 21 years and have recently decided to release it only electronically, never in print. The cause is the growing sales of electronic texts. For the linguistically conservative British,...
August 2010
5 posts
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What will destroy us: wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; commerce without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice; politics without principle. * Mahatma Gandhi
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