March 2008
On the air: Moon River poetry hour →
Ward Glenn revives “Moon River” radio poetry hour by Delfín Vigil | SFGate Ward Glenn is at it again. The 88-year-old career radio man from Indiana is back on the airwaves, hosting…
Poemes and Phonemes by Kyle McDonald →
Phonologically driven generative poetry, explored as a response to the standard orthographically driven electronic poetry (and its precursors: Oulipo, Dada). A genetic algorithm operates on…
Eva’s Complex Mind →
Eva Eun-Sil Han favors collage as the ideal medium for exploring her subconscious (and our own, let’s face it).
The collage featured in this post is called Complex Mind.
Much more of her…
Thought Experiments on the Soul →
Thought Experiments on the Soul Could I be replaced with such a complete duplicate-every atom, not just genetically identical — it would think that it was me. But clearly it would…
Flying Off the Shelves by Paul Constant →
There’s an underground economy of boosted books. These values are commonly understood and roundly agreed upon through word of mouth, and the values always seem to be true. Once, a scruffy, large man…
Axl Rose Responds to Dr. Pepper's Chinese... →
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1968: The year of the posturing rebel by Tom... →
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Hard-wired for the ups and downs →
I’m here not to praise elitism but to understand it, not so much through a history of elites but by talking about elites in prehistory.
Human beings are naturally hierarchical and they like…
How to Survive in America →
This post on Flickr caught my eye as I was skipping rocks in my Netvibes universe today.
Scanned cover of a book I found dumped in a box on a street in Berlin, from the Cambridge…
Muxtape K.I.S.S. →
Made my first Muxtape in no time early this morning. You can access it by clicking here.
Other than Google, of course, this has to be the simplest user interface out there/in…
The Museum of Snow by Emma Wieslander →
More of Emma’s intriguing work can be viewed here.
Muxtape, 24 hour mark
ericlodwick: jstn: 8,685 users / 19,731 songs / 35,000 visits / $118.17 on S3 This is the last time I’ll post stats, it’s just been the most exciting 24 hours a starry-eyed young web developer could possibly have. This wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible Tumblr community, thank you guys for your amazing support. Thanks also to Vimeo for putting up with me, and especially to...
Ted Berrigan Video →
Re-Blogging Renee’s post from a few days ago: a Ted Berrigan clip from Ron Mann’s documentary, Poetry in Motion (1981). Read and post comments | Send to a friend
Earliest-Known Recording of Allen Ginsberg's... →
Portland, OR (Original Pub Date: February 11, 2008) – On a February night in 1956, Allen Ginsberg stood in front of a group of students in a dormitory lounge at Reed College and…
Fables of Faubus →
Video: NHS Jazz Ensemble’s performance of Mingus’ Fables of Faubus (Fall ‘06 concert) Download mp3 of Fables of Faubus by Charles Mingus [Location unknown. I think N stands…
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Inverted Commas: Jorge Luis Borges →
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better…
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness:...
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