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Monthly Archives: September 2008

A Reading Diary

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Alberto Manguel wrote A Reading Diary over the course of a year, as he reread twelve of his favorite books. It centers around associative reading, by which he means that each book you read changes you, and will change the way you read the next book. The more you read, and the more widely you [...]

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Twitter Digest – 2008-09-15

Monday, September 15, 2008

just finished sneaking onto somebody’s neighborhood water-slide. most fun i’ve had in a long time. trashcan lids are fastest, by the way. # all our finances are dying. yikes. # word of the day: lees. means “the sediment on the bottom of a wine barrel” # oh, so it’s called “mannerpunk” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerpunk after the traditino [...]

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Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Monday, September 15, 2008

Hunter S. Thompson makes me want to be a journalist. As with some other larger-than-life writers, I’m not sure where the legend ends and he begins, but since I’m interested in his writing and not his person, it doesn’t much matter. His love for language and his discipline are especially inspiring. I read somewhere, while [...]

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Twitter Digest – 2008-09-14

Sunday, September 14, 2008

“all my life my heart has sought a thing i cannot name” — don marquis, via e.b. white, via hunter s. thompson # “originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.”– quentin crisp #

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Twitter Digest – 2008-09-13

Saturday, September 13, 2008

had a lengthy discussion of personal style with my boss. explained serpico to her. her response: “how do you know who serpico is?” # my answer: “our beards commune across the reach of time.” # @pelargir you’re right. it’s a useless commercial. nothing about the product & not even a very good story… i’d say [...]

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Twitter Digest – 2008-09-12

Friday, September 12, 2008

http://www.hurricanes08.org/ so much data on this page, it’s ridiculous. hurricanes fear this site. via @carvin # palin meets the blues brothers: “we’re on a mission from god” # easy source for elusive characters: http://is.gd/2kla i like the zombie/radiation melted together ones like æ and §, the mutant two-headed S # @ryanquattlebaum that’s not weird at [...]

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Sunstone (Piedra De Sol)

Friday, September 12, 2008

I was thrown off, initially, by the run-on, unfinished beginning of Piedra de Sol, or The Sunstone, by Octavio Paz. It’s all one jumbled sentence and it starts mid-way. I realized, when I finished reading, that the poem loops. When you get to the end, it’s not the end; Paz repeats the beginning stanza, which [...]

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Twitter Digest — 2008-09-11

Thursday, September 11, 2008

all crime is hate crime. # finished 5 out of 20 teams at bull mccabe’s trivia… tonight’s round 2 topic was “coffee.” knew zip about that, but nailed medusa question # @ryanquattlebaum yeah, i would. but i wouldn’t get elected because most people (the unwashed voting masses) don’t care about all that. # on the [...]

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Radiohead + Christopher Walken = Gold Record

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

This Flash app takes a song you upload and fills it with, as you might expect from the name, more cowbell—on beat, if it can. Then it inserts snippets of the Saturday Night Live sketch at random intervals (Christopher Walken & Will Ferrell dialogue, primarily) and saves the resulting file on their server. They keep [...]

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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Based on the recommendation of Neil Gaiman, via his blog, I read The Jewel-Hinged Jaw, a collection of criticism and other essays by Samuel R. Delany on sf and the craft and mechanics of writing. It boggled me. His fresh, lighting thought, his ability to strike to the heart of whatever he was reading or [...]

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