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Monthly Archives: February 2006
Twelve Ways to Mark Up a Book
Bert Webb writes: A new “or new looking” book is a treasure. In my experience, however, I have found that a well-marked book, becomes more like a treasured friend–one that you enjoy seeing again and again.
Mom’s Genetics Could Produce Gay Sons
More research into a possible genetic basis for homosexuality. The idea that sexual orientation is essentially completely genetic feels so intuitively and obviously right to me that I have a hard time crediting other ideas as being anything other than … Continue reading
Tagged Psyche
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Continued Death of Handwriting
It’s a long, slow demise… [cosmopoetica, writing, handwriting, letters]
Tagged Pens and Letters, Writing
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Electric President
A decent profile of Electric President along with some MP3s, a band recommended to me by two different people just today… [cosmopoetica, music, electric president, mp3]
Tagged Music
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Bob Marley Held Hostage
by “stoned suburban teenagers”: Legend was a doozy—a defanged and overproduced selection of Marley’s music. Listening to Legend to understand Marley is like reading Bridget Jones’s Diary to get Jane Austen. More in the Slate article: Free Bob Marley [cosmopoetica, … Continue reading
Tagged Music
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Wieseltier on Dennett
A somewhat testy review of Dennett and, occasionally, his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon.
David Graham on Writer’s Almanac
My friend David Graham has a good poem on Writer’s Alamanac this week (scroll down to February 19). It’s a particularly good fit for Keillor’s voice… which I generally like anyway, being a member of the great-unwashed poetry-non-elite. You can … Continue reading
Spork
New to me: Spork. Some interesting work (poems, stories, drawings) by mostly other than the usual suspects. Rather annoying layout. [cosmopoetica, spork, reading]
Tagged Art, Fiction and Lit, Poetry and Poetics
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New Beastles Album: Let it Beast
Available, for the moment, from BoingBoing, the new Beastles mash-up collection: Let it Beast– look for more links as mirrors go up. [cosmopoetica, music, beastles, mashups]
Tagged Music
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Song of Me of the Moment
The Old 97s – “Adelaide” Heaven I need drugHer eyes are all but fixed upon her coffee cupAnd looking down she tells you things are looking upTake another slug Heaven I had a dreamBut now my life’s a nightmare of … Continue reading
Tagged Humor
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The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
Cool song, awesome video… [cosmopoetica, avalanches, music, video]
Tagged Humor
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Downwind
A reporter on the wrong side of the burning fields… [cosmopoetica, humor, funnies]
Tagged Humor
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1978. Japan. Spiderman.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, woah“ [cosmopoetica, tv, television, spiderman, japan]
Tagged Film and Cinema
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Top 20 Mashups 2005
Get your Best of Bootie 2005 [cosmopoetica, music, mashups]
Tagged Music
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Gladwell Profile
A good profile of Malcolm Gladwell in the New York Times: …beneath the social science data, Gladwell is selling something for which there’s always a market. “I’m by nature an optimist. I can’t remember the last time I wrote a … Continue reading
Books that Shouldn’t Be
Jeanette Winterson on the publishing that should not be: “First, we stop publishing books that needn’t be books. People who don’t really read don’t really need books” so let them have Jordan and Becks in lots of other ways.”