October 25, 2009
Ulica Kubusia Puchatka, a street in
central
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Showoff, you're
only doing that because it's really, really impressive
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“Girls are like
square roots. If they're under 18 you just gotta do them in your head”
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Russian bloggers tried to imagine how some famous celebrities could look without the face hair
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(I’ve never seen any episode of this show, but here’s) Every
Kramer Entrance From Seinfeld
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March 01, 2009
Canticle for Leibowitz
Has it ever happen to you when somebody tells you about something that’s supposed to be one of the best things in its genre, and you never heard of it? My good friend Chip described A Canticle for Leibowitz as one of the 10 most important books written in the 20th century, and I never heard of it!?
Simone de Beauvoir, 1952, by Gisèle Freund
Also, a good photograph of Mark Twain (Click to biggify)
Penguin book cover deck chairs. (From Coudal)
The Catcher in the Rye: The Unauthorized German Translation
Cliff Pickover thrust his Heaven Virus book through a software book crusher that digested the book in seconds and spat out every word in the book, according to how often the word occurs
An interview with Tessa Dick, last wife of Philip K. Dick, about reworking the novel he was writing at the time of his death, The Owl and Daylight. Thank you, Henry
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January 01, 2009
Pocket books
Pocket books at an Indian street market on flickr
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Rings as Written by Other Authors
Parque Espana library in Colombia
Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's private Library. (From Where billionaires shop to build their libraries)
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November 20, 2008
What makes something beautiful?
Is it exquisite colors? Elegant form or striking style? Or can something be beautiful simply for the ideas it contains?
The answer to that last question is a resounding "yes," according Dan Lewis, Dibner senior curator of the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. He's the man responsible for a new exhibition at the library called "Beautiful Science: Ideas That Changed the World."
Listen to a great story by Joe Palca Paging Through History's Beautiful Science
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October 11, 2008
Out of the shadows
Author Terry Pratchett is hoping to bring dementia "out of the shadows" in a new campaign which hopes to reduce the stigma surrounding Alzheimer's Disease. Pratchett on dementia stigma
More at The Alzheimer's Society
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October 04, 2008
William Carlos Williams Is a Really Bad Roommate
I have eaten
the soy ice cream
that was in
the ice box
and which
you expressly asked
me
not to touch
Forgive me
it was so gross
I threw half of
it away
(From Yankee Pot Roast)
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The book Naked Came the Stranger was a literary hoax perpetrated by a number of prominent journalists in 1969. The project was conceived by Mike McGrady, a well-known Newsday columnist, who assembled twenty-four journalists to write a deliberately terrible book with a lot of sex, to illustrate the point that popular American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar… (From Shelton Wet/Dry)
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Joyce Images - postcards of Ulysses
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September 13, 2008
Oscar Wilde playing cards
Oscar Wilde playing cards created in 1986 by artist Rosita Fanto in association with Wilde biographer Richard Ellmann. (From John Coulthart). Fanto and Ellmann also created a card set based on James Joyce’s life and work. A statue of Oscar Wilde in Dublin
Also, the World's Most Expensive Chess Set
Robert Heinlein engineered his own nerdy solution to a problem common to famous authors: how to deal with fan mail. In the days before the internet, Heinlein's solution was fabulous. He created a one page FAQ answer sheet -- minus the questions. Then he, or rather his wife Ginny, checked off the appropriate answer and mailed it back. (Click to enlarge)
A long list of notable people who converted to Islam (wikipedia)
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August 19, 2008
The importance of finding the right editor
A telegram sent to poet Robert Penn Warren by his William Morris agent in 1948, regarding a potential meeting with Sam Goldwin. Other telegrams from The Beinecke Digital Image database, at “Room 26”
Book sculptor Nicholas Jones, interviewed by Marty Weil of Ephemera
An archive of gay paperback artwork from the 50's and 60's
You’ve been hurt before. You want a man who will treat you right, but you don’t want to be hurt again…
Shakespeare's Editor, as performed by Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson
Rev. Robert Shields was an English teacher and a diarist who lived in Dayton, Washington and who was afflicted with Hypergraphia, an overwhelming urge to write. He left a diary of 37.5 million words chronicling every 5 minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997. (From Shelton Wet/Dry)
(Image above from The Authentic History Center)
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July 25, 2008
No Maps for These Territories
Today's featured article on wikipedia is a lengthy biography of William Gibson. Quote:
...In 1967, he elected to move to Canada in order "to avoid the Vietnam war draft". At his draft hearing, he honestly informed interviewers that his intention in life was to sample every mind-altering substance in existence. Gibson has observed that he "did literally evade the draft, as they never bothered drafting me"; after the hearing he went home and purchased a bus ticket to Toronto, and left a week or two later. In the biographical documentary No Maps for These Territories (2000) Gibson said that his decision was motivated less by conscientious objection than by a desire to "sleep with hippie chicks" and indulge in hashish….
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Also: Drupli Bacon
An Amish Liberace fan, and other Things you’ve never seen. (Reminds me of this old post: George Carlin’s People I Can Do Without)
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June 30, 2008
Night nurses
Night nurses on flickr, by Dr. Odio
Literary Tattoos for People who Love Books
Surgery....A Profitable Hobby and other books with great titles found by Rhino Booksellers
Slaughterhouse 1945. Before he was a noted author, Kurt Vonnegut was a POW in Nazi Germany. A letter from those years
Re-post from 2003: Mysterious leather-book covers
Finnegans Wake as an eBook licensed under a Creative Commons License. FAGIN KNEW A SIN, an anagram on Finnegans Wake by visual poet Ben Stack
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June 09, 2008
Prufrock
TS Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Read by Michael Gough. (From Jonathan Beaton)
A photograph of Kurt Vonnegut sitting in a garden (Click to biggify)
I’m Hanan Levin. Those stories and Andy Rooney tonight on “Sixty Minutes”
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May 23, 2008
All’s Well That Ends Well
...Jon was excited, sitting on the seat next to him was his copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Jon had read every Potter book, he had even memorized the last line of The Half Blood Prince, the sixth book.
His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux, but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come, whether in a month, in a year, or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.
He took his book, went inside, and sat down in his favorite chair. He was ready to begin reading when Mary, his wife said, “Dinner’s on the table.” He’d waited two years for this moment, and a few minutes more or less was fine with him...
(From Mostly Anecdotal)
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May 12, 2008
Pride and Sensibility…
The Republic of Pemberley is the largest Jane Austen site on the web. The Jane Austen Information Page has everything you ever wanted to know about the girl
My favorite part is this page, The Jane Austen top ten song list, listing songs like "Material Girl" for Lucy Steele.
For the seriously demented fans, it also includes answering machine messages from an assortment of characters:
Mary Musgrove: "I am very ill today and quite unable to answer the phone. If I had a visitor, I suppose that person could have spoken with you, but it does not suit the Miss Musgroves to visit the ill, and I dare not rise from my bed for fear that I may be seized in some dreadful way!"
How have we lived this long without a Captain Wentworth or Edward paper doll? Gallery of Paper Dolls has them, plus Heathcliff
I Want My Jane Austen at “Emphasis Mine”
Longbourn, a Jane Austen fan site featuring screencaps from Pride and Prejudice (both the 1995 and 2005 adaptations), Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion. The caps are large, unaltered, and high quality. They're available for download in zip files. (With links!)
Sense & Sensibility (Ang Lee 1995 version) on YouTube. Jane Austen on Film
To continue the age-old debate, Colin Firth or Matthew MacFayden, which is the real (better) Mr. Darcy? The Jane Austen Movie Club provides the answer
Daily wit and inspiration at Jane Austen Quote of the Day
Pride and Prejudice, The Musical (2007) Music and Lyrics by Rita Abrams. Book by Josie Brown
Jane Austen, the font. An Austen blog
Photo above is the table where Jane Austen wrote all of her books. No Mac, no spell check or Dictionary.com, just this table and her imagination…
This is another “co-blogged” post, this time with local Irvine writer Suzanne Broughton, who blogs at Emphasis Mine, and at the Orange County Register's Mommy's Mind is Not a Toy and Alive in Wonderland. Thank you, Suzanne! (All previous co-bloggers archived here.) If other creative types are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
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May 08, 2008
Guernica
An extensive cover gallery of the French ”Saint” novels
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A 3D Exploration of Picasso's Guernica. Background music is the song Nana, part of Manuel de Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas, arranged by Ana Ruth Bermúdez and Rene Izquierdo for cello and guitar
Previously posted: CG Guernica (YT) by Marcelo Ricardo Ortiz
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The dictator novel (novela del dictador) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role of the dictator in Latin American society. The theme of caudillismo—the charismatic authoritarian "strongman"—is addressed by examining the relationship between power, dictatorship, and writing, and is used as an allegory for the role of the Latin American writer in society
A fan site dedicated to the notorious rascal Frank Harris (1856-1931), author of that most lascivious and lying autobiography My Life and Loves
A newly-discovered document that might be of interest to other fans of Israeli author Pinhas sadeh. It’s from June 1955, when Sadeh (then 26) helped his mother fill out 29 forms at the Yad Vashem museum. In this one, they declare the last known address of her mother who perished at the Lwów Ghetto in Poland in 1942
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May 01, 2008
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity
It seems that some Toronto taggers are no longer content to scrawl their own names on blank concrete canvases around the city and are trying instead to make more of a cultural statement. Last year, references to composer Gustav Mahler popped up in several places around town.
This year, a more cryptic stencil has appeared on the Humber Bay Arch Bridge, boldly proclaiming "ISBN 486-28495-6" for all to see and ponder. This International Standard Book Number turns out to be a paperback edition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden; Or, Life in the Woods.
In Walden, Thoreau wrote, "A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."
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