February 2008
26 posts
Bolaño in Mexico, by Carmen Boullosa →
January 2008
34 posts
Sketches of Spanish: A Profile on Edith Grossman →
‘“I knew this Colombian writer was eccentric when he wrote me saying that he doesn’t use adverbs ending with ‘-mente’ in Spanish and would like to avoid adverbs ending in ‘-ly’ in English.” She remembers thinking, what do you say in English except ‘slowly’? “Well, I came up with all types of things, like ‘without...
A List of Regional Pizza Styles →
Fumes made me go lowbrow, says writer →
“A prize-winning novelist has won a settlement of more than £100,000 after she claimed to have become so intoxicated by fumes from a nearby shoe factory that she was reduced to writing thrillers.”
Spiller seg syke på tv-spill →
“FOR MYE AV DET GODE: Utrente voksne undervurderer de fysiske ferdighetene som kreves for å kunne spille aktive tv-spill, mener eksperter. Foto: Flickr-bruker pusgums”
The Illustrated President →
20th Century Avant-Garde: "An Online Companion" →
Twins, separated at birth, unknowingly marry →
Sophocles, laughing, spreads his wings
“Historically, up until a certain point poets everywhere were kings, prime...”
– John Emerson
“I remember an afternoon during my journey in Aegina. Suddenly I saw a single...”
– Martin Heidegger, The Heraclitus Seminar
Quick thoughts on "Let's Talk About Love: A... →
“I was thinking more along the lines of “There are no verifiable cases of...”
– WoweeeZoweee, at Wikipedia:Talk:Banana
The Fall en concert, par Luz. →
"Memorex for the Krakens: The Fall's Pulp...
I, II, III (k-punk)
Also: “The Fall and Romanticism” (Mr. Waggish)
Messing Up the Paintwork →
“A Conference on the Aesthetics and Politics of Mark E. Smith and The Fall”
The Adventures of Amir Hamza, Lord of the... →
Public Domain Books Reprints Service →
On-demand reprints of public domain books from Google Books or the Internet Archive via Lulu. I’ve requested Pound’s “Cathay.”
Tom Waits by way of Flann O'Brien →
Early rap/hip-hop/roller-disco flyers, NYC,... →
Working At American Apparel Is All It's Coked Up... →
“The dealer had what I thought at the time was an ingenious setup: he lived down the street from the American Apparel store in the Lower East Side and would find hipster cokehead girls jobs at the chain’s various outlets and then, in turn, find clients among the other employees, which worked really well until everyone got so coked-out they had to blow it up their asses and a girl stole...
Krazy Kat: The Dormouse →
dishola: dish-for-dish food drive →
For every yummy dish that you review on dishola until January 15, they’ll donate a meal to Meals on Wheels.
Are you living in a computer simulation? →
