March 2011
15 posts
On Rimbaud: "He could be a real shit, too." →
wwnorton: Claude Peck: Why has Rimbaud appealed, over the years, to various music icons, from Jim Morrison to Patti Smith? John Ashbery: Bob Dylan, I think, also. Rimbaud has always appealed to misfits and delinquents, who are very often poets. Poets are very often of those persuasions. And he was so…
Mar 31st
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Bookstore Frustration Over Early Release of The... →
Mar 31st
Gown made of Little Golden books →
Mar 30th
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Mar 29th
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Mar 22nd
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Mar 21st
The Jack Dann Game! →
via Tor.com and Patrick N-H.  Find books that make a sentence when you omit the “by” and put the author’s name after the title.  Since this was invented by a SF editor most of these titles are SF, but there are plenty in all genres. Clouds and eclipses Gore Vidal An actor prepares Constantin Stanislavsky Race David Mamet Doubt John Patrick Shanley A streetcar named desire...
Mar 18th
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3/17/11
themonkeysyouordered: There’s some weird monster on the side of my building, but it’s fine cause I have a nice glass of red wine.
Mar 18th
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what a comedian
Today at the register, a young man asked, “do you buy back kindles?” “What?” “You buy textbooks.  Do you buy kindles?” “No.” Happily, we will never know if he was mocking us.
Mar 16th
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Mar 14th
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Mar 13th
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Oh, just put that down anywhere.
Mar 13th
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Mar 9th
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