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Hello reader-folk:
This month, true spies returns with a themed blog project. This time around, our clever alliterative title is, er, All-Literative April, and the subject is, loosely, lit-stuff. This is a deliberately broad theme, so that we can all work with it in our own way. My main literary project here for the month will [...]
This week’s New Yorker holds a few items of interest; one is a piece on Hannah Arendt. Included is some backstory on her complicated romance with Martin Heidegger. Apparently long after he was a Nazi, their affair was rekindled to some extent, and in the midst of the old philosopher’s letters to the young philosopher [...]
WHAT’S UP.
I’m pretty much done with Christmas gifts. That will end tonight. They’re almost all wrapped. I made lemon-ricotta cookies yesterday; I should ice them tonight. Stockings are hung by the chimbly with care, roast beast is in the oven, crumbs much too small for the other Whos’ mouses, etc. etc.
In the course of getting [...]
Doubtful this would be the case on the day after an election of any other nature. From the CLP catalog:
When else have I been this pleased that a book I want has 12 holds on it?
First order of business: Burndowns article in this week’s paper now online. Go check it. I guess I did an okay job of contextualizing the band musically in this one. In my Nicole Reynolds piece I basically do very little do describe her music, I think. I guess my nature is more that of a [...]
A few things I’ve acquired and/or enjoyed lately, for your perusal:
Carole King: Tapesetry
We all know like all of the songs on this album, but I’d never owned it. Picked it up at Half Price Books along with . . .
Genesis – Invisible Touch
I didn’t realize exactly how many hits were on this one too — [...]
I started this Goodreads thing, which generally makes me feel guilty about not reading, and thus encourages me to read some. Here’s a quick overview of what I’ve been reading and plan to be reading:
The Last Thing He Wanted (Joan Didion) – just finished. Many of you know I’m a big fan of Didion’s non-fiction. [...]
From Jeff Vail’s A Theory of Power:
The problem remains that production must remain compatible with the human host — a host genetically optimized for a late-Pleistocene, hunter-gatherer existence. Intensified specialization of production results in a highly stratified workforce, often demanding mind-numbingly routine individual functions, and requires a level of human interaction and organization that seems [...]
Here’s a book report I wrote. Sometimes I do this shit for fun. Not a book report on something you’d want to read, a book report on a French theorist talking about technics. Hopefully one or two people will find it to be interesting in some sense.
I’d preface this by noting that I’m [...]