Monthly Archives: July 2007

CosmoLinks

Posted on 7/31/2007 by chris

Etsy :: I Believe in — A better nametag Chimps get angry, but not spiteful, study finds — Yet another way our neighbors on the family tree are our superiors

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Multiple Stab Wounds May Be Harmful to Monkeys

Posted on 7/31/2007 by chris

You can count on me to bring you the hard news…

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Google News Cushions

Posted on 7/31/2007 by chris

Because you just can’t get enough of the Goog with fingers alone, now your ass can participate too!

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Letter Writing Minus Hillary

Posted on 7/30/2007 by chris

From a brief Slate article on the recently released, forty-year old letters from Hillary Clinton to a college friend: …the letters also filled me with nostalgia for letter-writing itself. Though I won’t pretend that this activity is morally preferable to … Continue reading →

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CosmoLinks

Posted on 7/30/2007 by chris

Clive James Video Interviews — With Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Michael Frayn, Julian Barnes, and others… Octopus Magazine #09 — Fresh issue with many reviews and prose on poetry… Art of the Business Card – a photoset on Flickr — … Continue reading →

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Monkey Sighting: Harold Taw

Posted on 7/30/2007 by chris

Via First Draft a snippet from Mark Taw’s This I Believe entry: I could say that I believe in America because it rewarded my family’s hard work to overcome poverty. I could say that I believe in holding on to … Continue reading →

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Sharing Stolen Vision

Posted on 7/30/2007 by chris

Daily Poetics has become one of my favorite looky-look blogs, and from there I just discovered It’s Nice That– resurrecting the positive idea of nice, creative things– which is just as good. So I wanted to point out some recent … Continue reading →

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But Why Call it Poetry? And Who Would Want to Read it?

Posted on 7/28/2007 by chris

Noted on Harriet, this quote by Christian Bök: “Postmodern life has utterly recoded the avant-garde demand for radical newness. Innovation in art no longer differs from the kind of manufactured obsolescence that has come to justify advertisements for “improved” products; … Continue reading →

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CosmoLinks

Posted on 7/28/2007 by chris

Lunch Poems: Mary Ruefle — Mary Ruefle poetry reading from the UC Berkeley Lunch Poems Series Lunch Poems: Frank Paino — Frank Paino poetry reading from the UC Berkeley Lunch Poems Series

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Mary Ruefle Reading (UC Berkeley Lunch Poems)

Posted on 7/27/2007 by chris

Just stumbled across a great half-hour reading by Mary Ruefle on Google Video courtesy of the Lunch Poems series at UC Berkeley.

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CosmoLinks

Posted on 7/27/2007 by chris

Saint Elizabeth Street Issue 6 — Fresh issue. Get it while it’s hot! August Poetry Postcard Fest

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Crazy Killing World

Posted on 7/27/2007 by chris

Sleepless at 3am and I’ve read through a flurry of last day, last hour, and last minute messages regarding the imminent–and as of a few hours ago past–execution of Darrell Grayson. Grayson started writing poetry during his long incarceration, so … Continue reading →

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Poetry and Parnassus

Posted on 7/26/2007 by chris

Over at One Poet’s Notes, Ed Byrne has a really good idea: the recently rich Poetry Foundation should partner up to keep Parnassus alive as a partner publication for the evolving Poetry magazine. I like the changes in Poetry but … Continue reading →

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Ron Silliman on Andrew Keen

Posted on 7/26/2007 by chris

It’s not all that often that I wholeheartedly agree with Ron Silliman… and on a topic of wider import than poetics too! Says Ron addressing the happily infamous Andrew Keen (link added): “Andrew Keen is getting a lot of play … Continue reading →

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The Terrors of Ice and Darkness

Posted on 7/25/2007 by chris

The Terrors of Ice and Darkness, by Christoph Ransmayr, is a stunning work of fiction and history. It combines the awful and awesome true story of an expedition towards the North Pole in the 1870s and the story of a … Continue reading →

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CosmoLinks

Posted on 7/25/2007 by chris

How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read — If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward social … Continue reading →

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Some Good Copyright News

Posted on 7/24/2007 by chris

With all the bad decisions and changes making incoherent copyright law even worse, it’s nice to see a bit of good news: UK Rejects Copyright Extension. I stand by what I’ve said before… copyright should be very simple: 14 years … Continue reading →

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Pushing Daisies

Posted on 7/23/2007 by chris

Lots of pie and kissing monkeys… I may regret killing my television if Pushing Daisies doesn’t make it to DVD. Check out the trailer for yourself…

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Keeping Mum (2005)

Posted on 7/21/2007 by chris

[IMDB entry] I enjoy Rowan Atkinson (except as Mr. Bean), Maggie Smith is a legend, Kristin Scott Thomas is always amazing, it’s hard to keep one’s eyes off Tamsin Egerton, and Patrick Swayze is finally making as much fun of … Continue reading →

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Deja Vu (2006)

Posted on 7/21/2007 by chris

[IMDB link] It feels like I’ve seen this movie before… I guess that was just some other “time-travel to thwart a crime with a resolution that simply ignores the paradox of such temporal meddling” movie. Denzel Washington is always Denzel– … Continue reading →

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