Archive for April, 2008
(Putting together an 826Bos workshop on Frank O’Hara’s “I did this, I did that” poems.) (Audio with car horn. Note: at the end of the famous Lana Turner poem, is the audience laughing like they’re listening to Burns and Allen?!) POEM Is it dirty does it look dirty that’s what you think of in the [...]
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Experimental drifting
1. Rediscovered Matt Parish’s essay on algorithmic walking. Wish my mind worked that way. So, in case you were wondering, this algorithmic walking thing is NOT a flavor-of-the-month fluffy experiment hatched by someone in a liberal arts school who’s just read Kerouac and decided it’s really relevant to his Sociology paper. 2. Ryan, who graciously [...]
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Wisdom of the ancients
1) Continuing to read that issue of the New Yorker (deadlines? what deadlines) I meandered through the essay on Herodotus, yeah, I remember how endless he was, preferred Thucydides, maybe I should reread the guy, ha like that’s ever going to happen, did I even keep the book, is it still in my parents’ basement, [...]
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Two-thirds of the way through the New Yorker’s article on folk music, I came across a line that aggravated me. I blogged thus: I hate to be obnoxious*, because I know real true-out music geeks and I am not that knowledgeable, but there’s nothing to scar an interesting article’s authority like the author stating that [...]
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Whatever happened to junket?
(This was to have been yesterday’s post. Oh well.) 1. After a few weeks of yawndom, the NYT food section came up with a whole bunch of dishes I want to try–not only the tacos and chocolate pudding (which I make all the time using the now-maligned cornstarch method) but these dishes from the restaurant [...]
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There are no words
Could this possibly be for real?! Alibris: Her Pocket Engagement Diaries for Eight Years by Woolf, Virginia Description: from 1930 onwards, including that for the final year of her life, 1941. 8 volumes, small 12mo, slightly varying sizes (tallest 116 × 83 mm; smallest 80 × 62 mm). All in original bindings, 1930 and 1933 [...]
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