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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-05-30

the best storytelling. http://bit.ly/axTRDf via @GreatDismal # is it clarion 08 celebration day? @ferretthimself & @Keffy are now fully operational @sfwa folks. # @rsdevin no; that was on one of my interminable roadtrips, so we only had a few hours to see it all. definitely someplace i'll revisit. in reply to rsdevin # "we have [...]

Bryce Canyon

january 2010 – bryce canyon from paulboccaccio on Vimeo. (this post tests out the emergency wobblecam system using a video i took in early january. i might do more of these when i’m abroad. with less wobbling.)

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-05-23

Guess who just learned how to play billy idol's "dancing with myself" on harmonica. # when i hear the star wars end theme, i feel the need to stand & salute. i do not feel that for the national anthem of these united states. # @mikejoosse why worry? that's just @tofermoran. in reply to mikejoosse [...]

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-05-16

@plasticbrentley do you want to be Bowlcut Jackson? or Smoothskull FitzPatrick? in reply to plasticbrentley # interview with paul park. "Strange and Reminiscent: Paul Park on Writing and Teaching" http://bit.ly/buEz7Q # @scottmccloud damn kids. (they're on my lawn.) in reply to scottmccloud # @schy yeah, i cringed a bit. but he's a nice guy in [...]

Judge All These in a Room Together

Being aware of the history of literature—or of any other art, for that matter—is really a form of unbelieving, a form of skepticism. If I say to my self, for example, that Wordsworth and Verlaine were very good nineteenth-century poets, then I may fall into the danger of thinking that time has some how destroyed [...]

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-05-09

"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read." — Pliny the Elder # @gralinnaea HA HA HA ORIGINAL JOKES. in reply to gralinnaea # man, whenever biggie says "i got chronic by the tree," i always think of christmas. # dear fauxjogger: no matter how enthusiastically [...]

Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-05-02

"I don't know, man. I just feel like I should wash my hands after we killed that dude. Guilt, and whatnot." — Macbeth, first draft # "The flora! The flora!" — Heart of Darkness, first draft. Conrad later scrapped the environmental angle. # “To the last, I slapfight with thee; From Jersey's heart, I stab [...]