tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27976277182756985582011-10-06T09:20:50.571-04:00Vivitur Ingenio, cætera mortis erunt.Kárihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06000804601372463795noreply@blogger.comBlogger2611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2797627718275698558.post-46077129187548875042011-01-07T08:47:00.002-05:002011-01-07T10:38:15.832-05:00

image via Wikipedia Reluctant Decemberists fan that I am, I was cautiously optimistic to learn that they had a new album coming out this month. What with the new Iron & Wine album, entitled Kiss Each Other Clean¸ coming out a week later (on the 25th), January is shaping up to be a promising start to what will hopefully be another Good Year for Music, as bloggers and critics alike seem to agree

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A number of last-minute entries delayed the publication of my year-end list of the best albums of 2010, but I hope you won't mind. The delay was also prompted by my realisation that the list I published last year did not in any way reflect the actual best albums of that year — for instance it completely neglected to mention Other Lives, whose eponymous début album was secretly the best album

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Image via Wikipedia The deadline for submitting something to next year's NeMLA has already passed, and having looked at the panels on offer, I decided not to submit anything. Unlike the ACLA where everything is post-colonial this or gender that, NeMLA tends to attract extremely conventional topics ("Calvino and the city: new critical perspectives", for instance), and perhaps that is true of

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Last year I taught a class called “German for Reading Knowledge”; a curious class, really, which trains (primarily) graduate students to read academic German with the aid of a dictionary, even if they’ve never heard or spoken a word of German in their lives. It is a requirement in many graduate programs that you demonstrate reading competency in one or two languages beyond English and whatever

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Image via Wikipedia (Part one here) My good friend Jan Küveler, who writes for German news daily Die Welt, has just published a little piece on the My Little Pony IMDb mystery, entitled “Lügen haben kurze Beine” [lit. “Lies have short legs” (like ponies, get it?); in English, of course, lies have no legs at all]. After explaining the concept of My Little Pony to his German-speaking readership,

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I’ve been meaning to write something about Treme since about the beginning of June but for one reason or another never got around to it. Since topicality is something I may strive for but rarely achieve around here, I figure now is as good a time as any to say what’s on my mind. I came to Treme with the most favourable preconceptions imaginable: not only am I huge fan of The Wire, David Simon’s

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Image via WikipediaOn his Twitter page, Roger Ebert has shared an interesting link: the IMDb reviews page for My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade. Writes Ebert, ‘How can “My Little Pony” possibly be this good? IMDb? Hello?’ Well, having read some of the reviews, I find myself asking the same question. User mudkiprex, for instance, writes that he wasn’t expecting much from the film when his

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Gawker recently reported that C.J., the young boy accused of murdering his whole family on Staten Island, had been acquitted posthumously, but not in time to stop a media frenzy surrounding this boy’s “life of rage” etc. Now, of course, everyone wants to know why everyone was so quick to blame the son, even though he’d had his throat cut like his two siblings. One of the comments struck me as

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Image by thomasbrandt via FlickrOver at The Stranger, Lindy West has an insightful, amusing, not to mention damning review of the new Sex and the City film, which, I should mention, I haven't seen, nor do I have any plans to do so in the immediate future, especially after this review. Writes West: In order to escape their various imaginary problems, our intrepid foursome traipses off to dark,

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Image by Sakena via FlickrUpon returning to Denmark last week, my attention was drawn to the latest political advertising campaign by Dansk Folkeparti, which adorns the backs of buses all over Copenhagen: three little piglets peek out over a blue ribbon bearing the Dansk Folkeparti logo, and on either side, in slightly amateurish cursive script, the slogan: “dyrene—vores ansvar” (animals—our

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Image via WikipediaI'm doing a translation for the programme to a concert featuring some of Brahms's Canons for Women's Voices (Opus 113), and I thought I'd share one. The text is by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866), an author otherwise unknown to me, I confess. The text for one of the canons is taken from Rückert's celebrated translation of the Makamat by Al Harari of Basra (1054-1122), and is

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Watch the full concert at baeblemusic.com

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Einmal, da vier Missetäter auf dem Rabensteine vor Hannover geköpft wurden, ging er unter der Menge von Menschen mit hinaus und sahe nun vier darunter, welche aus der Zahl der übrigen ausgetilget und zerstückt werden sollten.—Dies kam ihm so klein, so unbedeutend vor, da der ihn umgebenden Menschenmasse noch so viel war—als ob ein Baum im Walde umgehauen oder ein Ochse gefällt werden sollte—und

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“please someone find a picture of the Pope wearing 3D glasses” —comment on my Facebook wall in response to this article.

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(via clusterflock)

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You've got to hand it to Pia Kjærsgaard, really: she knows how to get her point across. Somehow or other, Dansk Folkeparti (the Danish People's Party), of which she is the leader, are allowed to monopolise the headlines of the country's newspapers, simply by virtue of being the first party on the scene when it comes to offering opinions on any subject whatsoever. Thus it was this past summer,

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The obverse of the retro-revolution spearheaded by Fleet Foxes, if you will, Midlake are poised to release a new album. In fact it's already leaked and the more enterprising and unscrupulous among you will quickly be able to obtain a copy. Where Fleet Foxes' close harmonies tend to evoke Crosby, Stills and Nash, Midlake's are more akin to "Don't Fear the Reaper" (their hit "Roscoe", for one,

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Now that Megan Fox has been voted worst actress of 2009 in the worst film of the year, Transformers II: Revenge of the Fallen, which I had the misfortune of watching last summer (on my computer, not at the cinema), I was reminded of my favourite review of the film, written by "william, brooklyn" in response to Manohla Dargis's New York Times review: I think that about sums it up. The film really

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Compared to 2008, 2009 didn't see too many seminal releases, but these are some of the albums that have kept me bobbing along nonetheless. As always, some of the best things I've heard this year weren't actually released this year: right now, for instance, I'm listening to José Gonazález's début album, Veneer (2003), which was a revelation in a

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Image via WikipediaJacques-Alain Miller on Google:Everyone’s a winner. Organizing the Very Big Quantity, Google obeys a totalitarian tropism, voracious and digestive. Thus the project of scanning all the books; thus the raids on all the archives: cinema, television, the press; beyond that, the logical target of googlization is the entire universe: the all-seeing gaze skims through the world,

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SIMON EVANSHome Country, 2008-9Paper weaving58 5/8 X 42 1/8 inches(Currently on show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art)It seems another year has come and gone, and I think it's fair to say that it's been pretty slim pickin's around here this year — probably the slimmest in the six-or-so years this thing's been running. It's been four years since I moved to New York and started graduate school

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Image by DominusVobiscum via FlickrSubject-line of an email I just received. Good title for an essay or short story, methought.

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Image by urbanartcore.eu via Flickr7 I awaken I think. Marshlights reappear, geese come trailing again up the flyway. In her ravine under old snow the dam-bear lies, licking lumps of smeared fur and drizzly eyes into shapes with her tongue. And one hairy-soled trudge stuck out before me, the next groaned out, the next, the next, the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was

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To follow up on the Siegfried & Roy story—who, I gather, use only white tigers in their shows—it seems Roy Horn got what was coming to him when his tiger Montecore attacked and nearly killed him (Oct 2003).Innocently perusing the archives at ZooBorns I was naturally captivated by this baby white tiger's gaze. In the comments section, however, I found a link to this post on the subject of the

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Image by dherrera_96 via Flickr“Roy Horn [of Siegfried & Roy, K.] — who in his memoir defines himself in terms of his animals, and who makes his living using them — could be just the latest stage in the development of man described by Rousseau: savage hunter, barbaric herdsman, civilized farmer, Vegas entertainer.”Kelly Oliver, “Animal Pedagogy: The Origin of ‘Man’ in Rousseau and Herder.”

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One can imagine a group of Documentary Detectives whose sole purpose is to uphold Truth & Truth                      by guaranteeing the the authenticity           of all works. Their seal of approval would                  create a sense of public faith which             could only be main tained if said                     Documentary Detec tives were as fierce               as pit bulls and as

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I just got my hands on a compilation released on 4AD called Dark Was the Night. When I first saw it announced, I couldn't quite believe the line-up. Pretty much everybody I listen to is represented on here, to the extent that it's almost creepy. Feist, Death Cab (well, Ben Gibbard), Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, My Brightest Diamond, The Decemberists, Iron & Wine, Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut,

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My New Year's Resolution (besides the usual) was to take more photos. So here are some pictures I took with my new digital SLR down on the farm between Christmas and New Year. Enjoy.

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A chill, relentless drizzle had settled over Copenhagen, lending a pale cast of disconsolation to an otherwise unremarkable day in late December. The sort of weather that forces your head down as you walk, reducing your field of vision to the space immediately in front of you, and each step feels imbued with a special kind of defiant futility. It was such a day that I had resolved to exchange a

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Oh, I'm such an old softy.The line "he told me that I'd done all right / And kissed me till the morning light" never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Well, except when I'm expecting it, i.e. whenever I think, man I always end up crying when I hear that line, and then I listen to it again and I don't.It happened again just now, you see. I was getting ready to go to bed, and happened to play that

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I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal

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Mitleid mit dem Löwen Seltsam sei es, schreibt Alfred Polgar in einer seiner Glossen, welche Menschen welchen Tieren den Vorzug gäben. Das überfeine Mädchen Lotte ziehe es zu den Löwen, den breitnasigen Räubern. Ein Zug fürs Leben, wie sich zeigen sollte. Polgar ist mit seiner Beobachtung nicht so weit gegangen, wie es sonst seine Art war. Zur höchsten Stufe der Verallgemeinerung war doch nur

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The domestic aquarium fad that hit Victorian England during the 1850s and 1860s may be considered, along with its direct antecedent, the collecting of ferns, a true mass-culture phenomenon: one where an object or cluster of objects becomes the focus of an obsessive and pervasive consumption that, despite its seriality or multiplicity, is felt as intimately personal.—Celeste Olalquiaga. The

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Image by sea turtle via FlickrNicolle Wallace, a spokeswoman for Mr. McCain, said on Sunday night that Mr. McCain had not heard the broadcast of the event while in his motorcade and heard none of the questions. “The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said. —Source (emphasis added) I'll be heading back into my 'Cone

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Last My Brightest Diamond-themed post for the time being, I promise.Whilst trying to procure a copy of her cover of Radiohead's Lucky on the Stereogum-produced Radiohead tribute album, OKX, I came across this little gem from a while back. They're right, of course: that song is karaoke suicide in the hands of any normal human being. Not so in this case. Despite the terrible acoustics and general

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Not much to look at, unfortunately, but some vocal gymnastics at the end that'll send shivers down your spine.I need to see this woman live.Edit: Go on, one more:

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I think I'm in love with Shara Worden. Bring Me the Workhorse is still on heavy rotation on my stereo and is now competing, quite nicely, with A Thousand Shark's Teeth, the new My Brightest Diamond album. I'm not sure I can adequately express the effect her voice and her music have on me, but you'd have to be made out of iron to remain impassive to it.Buy this album, or borrow it; steal it if you

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I did wonder who chose the words you had to identify in order to prove you were a human being when buying concert tickets, because quite often they're not exactly, you know, the most obvious choices. The two pictured here represent my failed attempt at getting two tickets to see Ray LaMontagne at Radio City Music Hall in October, for instance.But so, like, what gives? Well, once I'd got over my

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P: “What is it about beautiful women that you find ineffable?”K: “I don't know; all I know is that my efforts to eff them invariably fail.”

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It seems Vladimir Putin isn't marrying ultra-flexible (“even-for-a-gymnast”) Alina Kabaeva after all. This may have been denounced as a baseless rumour, but it is hardly the most improbable aspect of this story. For example: Ms Kabayeva [sic], who was recently voted the most beautiful woman in the country by the readers of a Russian magazine, became a parliamentary deputy late last year after the

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Poster in the stairwell in Hamilton Hall offers "Free one-on-one LSAT tutoring", "a $250 value!", apparently.Further down, the company's tagline is presented as "Improve your LSAT grade or your money back".Does that mean it's only free if you fail?

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“We have to figure out who would be the stronger candidate, because, at the end of the day, that is what matters most” according to a Hillary Clinton sound-clip I heard on NPR this morning.Who exactly are "we" here? Not the voting public, in any case.http://hillaryis404.org/

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Say what you like about Wagner (and indeed I have elsewhere), but this is undeniably brilliant.Most famous, seemingly, for accompanying the final scene in John Boorman's Excalibur, which indeed is where I first heard it, this is one of my favourite pieces of music.Definitive proof, by the way, that everything John Williams knows he learnt from Wagner.

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ThursdayThe girl at the bag check looks up at me and said, ‘you didn't just say the T-word, did you?’ ‘The T-word?’ I respond, ‘what's the T-word?’She assures us that she isn't going to repeat it, and proceeds to check Tim's bag. Meanwhile I'm racking my brain for a possible answer to my question, if not hers. Just as we're leaving, I figure it out. ‘Did you just spend all that time thinking

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So there I was minding my own business when a friend of mine called me up and asked whether I wanted to go see Hélène Grimaud play Beethoven at Carnegie Hall for ten bucks. Sure, I said, sounds like fun.Hélène Grimaud, it emerges, is a fairly interesting character, in that besides being stunningly beautiful, she not only keeps and rears wolves but is also a synaesthete to boot (she sees music as

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from Irina xxxxxxxxxx to kari.xxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxxdate Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:43 PMsubject Thai airline soapmailed-by xxxx.xxxY'all absolutely have to watch this clip. You just have to. I wish they would translate this show and bring it to the States.http://jezebel.com/347535/fly-the-friendly-skies

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In the spirit of not limiting Best-of-2007 lists to things that actually originally appeared in 2007, here's a YouTube video (which was actually posted in 2007) of one of the loveliest songs I heard last year.

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Image via WikipediaI suppose my end-of-year stock-taking led me to reconsider some favourite albums from the past which have been gathering eDust in my mp3 collection while I plunged headlong into the American Indie-Rock pool. In the late nineties and early naughties I was going through what some might describe as an electronica phase, mostly of the British persuasion. I had been a fan of

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...and I don't feel any different. Unsurprisingly. Not much has changed around here, either. Still, I'm not ready to give up this blogging malarkey just yet, I just need to get into the habit of, to paraphrase old Gloucester, 'seeing it bloggingly'.Over at Last.fm, John B. asked me whether I had a 'Best of 2007' in me. I've been giving it some thought. Best of what, though? Albums? Films? That's

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I wonder how this scores on John B.'s cleverness-in-art-o-meter.That's my friend Tyler blowin' that axe, by the way.

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Caught myself in a real New York situation yesterday: eight thirty in the morning, on my way to campus, I'm crossing the street and some idiot decides to turn left swerving wildly in front of the oncoming traffic, cutting off the other drivers in the inside lane. I'm in his way, apparently, even though I've got a green light and he's blatantly flouting the traffic laws, and he honks his horn and

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I was never really entirely convinced by The New Porno- graphers, from what little I'd heard. The songs seemed to have all the right ingredients — catchy melodies, lots of energy, seemingly intelligent lyrics — but somehow they failed to deliver. It was as if they stopped short of the heights they'd aspired to, and so there was a certain deflationary feeling which accompanied them. Invariably,

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(via Andrew Simone)

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Okay, I've been meaning to write this entry since approximately June, so why not now? Some time ago, John B. over at the Meridian posted a review of The Decemberists' then-latest album, Picaresque.At the time, I wasn't familiar with their œuvre, and I was sufficiently put off by the negative things I'd read about them both at the Meridian and elsewhere, that I was less than curious to sample

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Time: 07.45 or thereabouts.Place: my bathroom.Context: Last night the toothpaste was missing from the bathroom. I suspected Daniel of having pilfered it, but he'd already gone to bed, so I was forced to make use of the tiny bit left in the old tube. This morning I happened to run into him (a rarer occasion than one might think):Me: Daniel, have you seen the toothpaste?Daniel: No, man. Is it

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St. Vincent

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This overheated and distasteful little book — for me the wrong book in many ways — addresses matters about which there is, precisely, nothing left to say. The avant-garde, we know, is dead; nothing could appear more exhausted than its theory, its history, its works. And yet certain questions remain: whether the avant-garde has left anything vital behind; whether there is something vital about

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On the face of it, there are any number of reasons why I shouldn't like Andrew Bird. For a start, he whistles. Very well, as it happens; as this Pitchfork review puts it: "How many people can you honestly say are impressive whistlers?". Well, not many, really, but whistling in music inescapably brings to mind the cloying naffness of Roger Whittaker, and thus impressive whistling is hardly

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Luciano Pavarotti's died. I think it's fair to say (and I'm sure that most of the obituaries in the world's newspapers this morning are saying it) that he was the synonymous with 'opera' in a way that few others could lay claim to, certainly not recently. I'm no real opera aficionado, but I was nevertheless saddened by the news.I think few tributes could be more indicative of Pavarotti's status

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From this article in the New York Times:Westen urges Democratic candidates to go for the gut, and includes a number of speeches that he wishes Democratic candidates had given. He wishes, for example, Al Gore had hit George Bush harder for being a drunk. He wishes Gore had interrupted a presidential debate and barked at Bush, “If someone is going to restore dignity to the Oval Office, it isn’t a

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Granted, timeliness has never been this blog's forte. Even though I gather we're now on the way to Season Seven of Fox's real-time action/drama 24, I've only made it up to Season Four, and although I'm led to believe that it's commonly considered a low-point for the series, I very much doubt that I will be watching the next two instalments.Now, 24 has drawn attention and widespread criticism

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And the award for worst fucking website on the entire Internet goes to: Ryanair!I cannot express the anger and frustration I suffered at the hands of that site today, but I'm going to rant and rave about it anyway. I'm going to La Rochelle this week-end for a wedding and seemingly the only people who fly to La Rochelle are bloody Ryanair. I tried, I really did, to find an alternative, but most

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Meanwhile, Rilo Kiley are out with a new song and a truly bizarre concept for a video: the song itself is preceded by nine and a bit minutes of porn movie casting interviews (watch it here).I dunno, although I think the song's cool enough, it's too short in comparison to the 'intro', which makes it seem tacked on almost like an afterthought, which surely was not the point.And outside it continued

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It's not often that I go see a band I've barely heard of live, but last night I went to see The Hold Steady at the Shepherd's Bush Empire after a friend had said he was going, and so I hastily downloaded their latest album Boys and Girls in America so that would have at least some idea of what was in store for me. Because it was such a last-minute thing, I actually ended up sitting up in the

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More at PhD Comics

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We've all seen those amusingly erroneous predictions of the now-present future, but there seems to be less of a market for what turned out to be accurate speculation about the world of tomorrow. Less quotable, perhaps.Just for a change, then, here is a link to an article published in the Atlantic Monthly in July 1945 entitled "As We May Think", which more or less foresees the arrival of personal

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Welcome to the new incarnation of Delights for the Ingenious. As some of my vast entourage of readers and admirers will know, for the past three-and-a-bit years it's been located over at LiveJournal (http://fearful-syzygy.livejournal.com/). Since then, most of my friends have either stopped blogging or decamped to Blogger, but I hung on defiantly, primarily because I couldn't face the prospect

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Via Blogmeridian (et al) comes a real underdog story. Paul Potts, mobile phone salesman, is competing in Simon Cowell's latest cringe-fest, "Britain's Got Talent", and has won over pretty much everybody (including me, insofar as I feel I need to support anybody in this particular race... better him than arch rival Bessie).Everybody that is, except for one mean-spirited commentator (and overall

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From the front page of the culture section of today's Politiken, a hilarious image taken at the Rostock protests in the run-up to the G8 summit.No comment

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Via 3quarksdaily comes a review of Douglas Hofstadter's latest book I Am a Strange Loop, upon which I felt compelled to comment (which is somewhat unusual for me, I must confess). Perhaps because I'm new to this commenting game, and perhaps feel slightly nervous posting comments on the TLS website, it comes across as far more pretentious and snooty than I had intended. Nevertheless, I stand by

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"Statuettes of the Virgin Mary sit side by side with wolf-whistling toy mountain marmots. An uneasy alliance if ever there was one."

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Having only just discovered Veoh, via www.alluc.org, I present to you: Jesus Camp.'Tis downloading as we speak, which is good, as I must press on with my Eichendorff presentation, but I'm told this is really good.

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“In Detroit and around the world, WrestleMania, a smorgasbord of hairspray, cleavage and monster body slams, remains as popular as ever.”(Synopsis of this article)

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I have always been inclined to agree with Sean Penn's last words in Dead Man Walking that "I think killin's wrong, whether it's me, or y'all, or your government", and so I was pleased to read a cogent, concise, expansion upon that sentiment by Justin E. H. Smith, who occasionally posts over at 3qd, and thought you might be too: here it is.

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Image via WikipediaAccording to Philoclea, the following is the greatest literary passage ever written in any language. I felt it was worth sharing. Guess what it's from. That whale of Stubb's, so dearly purchased, was duly brought to the Pequod's side, where all those cutting and hoisting operations previously detailed, were regularly gone through, even to the baling of the Heidelburgh Tun, or

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TF: ...So I ended up arguing that pseudonymity is a "mode of transgression".SS: How very antinomian of you.TF: Why thank you.

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The Arts section of today’s New York Times reports the theft of two paintings by Picasso. Inevitably, the sub-heading reads: “Two important paintings by Picasso estimated by the police to be worth a total of about $66 million have been stolen from the Left Bank home of his granddaughter Diana Widmaier-Picasso, the authorities announced Wednesday.” The inevitability here refers neither to the

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The sentence above is a possible first sentence for a novel I'll never write, as provided, inadvertently, by a friend of mine. If I ever do write the book, I shall thank her for the little dactylic tetrameter that started it all.

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Guy 2: [sauntering up wearing a "Rutgers Invitational" T-Shirt] Hey what's goin' on?Guy 1: [seated] Oh hey, what's up? What were you doing at Rutgers?Guy 2: Oh it's for this golf tournament. [turns to show back of T-shirt] Yeah so for Spring Break we have to go to San Diego.Girl: [seated] Wow.Guy 2: [taking a seat] So get a load of this class I'm taking, I can't even believe this is a class.

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So it appears that one of my German 101 students this semester is related to the people who run 3quarksdaily. This is perhaps not at all remarkable, but that blog is certainly both enjoyable and informative, and I would urge anyone who has not yet discovered it to join the ranks of illustrious readers (Pinker, Dawkins, Byrne, etc.). Why, only this morning I read a hilarious comment on Dan Brown

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Despite, as far as I am aware, never actually having tasted instant noodles in any shape or form, I am inclined to agree with the author of this 'appreciation' of Momofuko "Mr. Noodle" Ando, recently deceased, that it is reassuring in some ways that they should have been invented by a single person. In fact, until now it had probably not consciously occurred to me that the time of individual,

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What is it with using poncy names for basic foodstuffs just to be able to charge an arm and a leg for them? You know what I mean? Like cheese and onion crisps that claim to be "mature cheddar and spring onion" crisps, or my favourite, "malt vinegar and sea salt" for salt 'n' vinegar. In the British Library; had a sandwich for lunch. It was labelled as follows: "Chicken, sun blush tomato and

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http://www.unphotographable.com/Here's an interesting website I stumbled upon today whilst looking for something else. I may have something to say about it later, but for the time being, I'll just let it speak for itself.

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Gosh, looks like my insignificant response to Kerry's botched joke the other day got picked up on someone's radar, and I've now earned a mention on Ray Robison's blog, whoever he is. The only other person he appears to cite is Rush Limbaugh, so I'm in some distinguished company.Still, average Joe or not, I shall have to mind what I say around here. People are evidently reading...

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This article from the New York Times caught my eye today, and in particular this paragraph somewhere near the top:"But as part of a corporate shift under the new Disney chief executive Robert Iger, the studio pledged this summer to make fewer films and focus on family-friendly movies that are marketable across all the company’s businesses, including theme parks, plush toys and television. That

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Image via CrunchBaseIn part in response to this discussion from a community over at Last.fm, particularly the comment by leridan, and coupled with my continuing efforts to organise my unwieldy digital music collection (currently resting at 88.2Gb, or just under 1313 hours of music), I began to ponder the ways in which the digital revolution, and on-line databases such as Last.fm in particular,

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See, what I don't get about Kerry's recent gaffe, is that whichever way you understand it, it's not particularly funny. I mean, he's speaking to a bunch of college students, encouraging them to make the most of their education, and citing George W. Bush as an example of what'll happen if they don't. But Bush went to Yale and Harvard! Surely he's an argument against an Ivy League education

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I'm assuming the bit from today's edition of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me about Rush Limbaugh laying into Stephen Hawking in addition to Michael J. Fox was a joke....right?

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Q: What to do when you've got a huge back-log of unconnected random observations that somehow never made it into proper entries of their own?A: Just stick 'em in a bulleted list and be done with it!21 August, 2006, in my room at the Holiday Inn, Heathrow. On television, George Bush, speaking at a press conference regarding the sending of UN troops to Lebanon, & on the Middle East Question in

Kárihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06000804601372463795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2797627718275698558.post-4746957817065685472006-10-07T08:16:00.000-04:002007-06-29T04:44:08.994-04:00

Time for me to try my hand at this whole YouTube thing.I was going to say something about how utterly absurd this is, but words frankly fail me. The comments on this thing on YouTube itself are incomprehensible to me. One person apparently sees this incident as justification given to him by 'the left' to go and buy a gun and join the NRA. Leaving the dubious causal connexion aside for a minute

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Also, can I just say that I'm severely narked off about what's just happened to Pluto. I mean, Pluto was like my favourite planet, man. I'm serious. I was at a party on Friday night and expressed my annoyance to Toby's new girlfriend, and she seemed surprised that I even had a favourite planet, let alone Pluto. When pressed, she, rather pathetically, said she liked Saturn 'because it's got

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Wulffmorgenthaler actually being reasonably clever!If you don't find that amusing, check out their homepage and you'll see why reading the back page of Politiken can often be a despiriting affair.I'm back, by the way. How ya been?

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It's raining, so what better way to spend the day than sitting through eight and a half hours of Wagner's Ring cycle? That's what I thought.The local library didn't have Götterdämmerung on DVD, so I had to make do with the first three, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, and Siegfried. More than enough, really — the fourth would have brought the total to about fourteen hours, which is more time than

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