Monthly Archives: March 2006

New Kleptones Album: 24HOURS

Looks like the Kleptones have released a new album! 24HOURS– a 2 disc set! I’m listening as we speak and this may be my favorite yet. [cosmopoetica kleptones mashups music mp3]

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Epigramititis

There are quite a few things funnier than Kent Johnson’s latest rabble-rousing Epigramititis, but numbering well up there are the stuffy intonations of the poetry blogerati complaining that they don’t see the humor in such juvenile activities. As long as … Continue reading

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Poets Who Blog

I’ve often pondered why new media–particularly blogs, but also podcasting and audio-blogging–has really taken off within only a relatively narrow group of practicing poets. In the “post-avant” school, people blog like crazy and in all kinds of ways. More traditional … Continue reading

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Ridiculous Book, Ridiculous Case

More on authors trying to assert copyright on historical “fact” vis a vis the DaVinci Code. Am I the only one that finds this sickly funny? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail are just trying to have their cake … Continue reading

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Sustaining Culture in a Dark Time

We work in the company of others (philosophers and farmers, artists and scientists, as we variously require), and we work in the dark. The historian Daniel Boorstin has remarked that ignoring the past in making decisions is like trying to … Continue reading

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Speaking of Found Stuff

I love discovering ephemera inside used books or buried beneath the couch cushions. Apparently, so do a lot of other people. There’s an interesting book called Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the World. The website … Continue reading

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PostSecret

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. [cosmopoetica, photography, art]

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Shipbreaking in Bangladesh

A thought provoking essay on where big ships go to die and the surreal, third-world economy that has grown up around their decomposition. [cosmopoetica, photography]

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