May 2012
5 posts
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April 2012
8 posts
Damn, I missed the meeting where we decided that today the Internet would turn into one massive diatribe on usefulness of arts vs. science. I would have objected.
This never would have happened if they taught Richard Feynman to children. Then we’d all know that both are great and both are even better when they interact & trust each other.
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In which I start a title with "In which"
“Nelson says: ‘Few people read print poetry beyond the classroom, and even before the net age, poetry books rarely sold. Yet with my admittedly strange and frenetic digital poems, I’ve been successful in attracting millions of readers — people who will share the work, post blogs, write essays about it.’ But this to miss the point entirely.”—
Christopher Bantick
This article, along...
Advice from Billy Wilder →
Number 6: If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
Yup.
The Specialty Coffee Industry from the Outside →
Good times.
precariousjenny:
Noah Slater got brought to Tamper Tantrum 2012 as a +1.
Noah Slater did not realise it was a coffee conference.
Noah Slater decides to live-tweet the event…
…through the eyes of a non-coffee professional.
Hilarity ensues. Click the title to read what happened!
March 2012
7 posts
“It’s not as if the extraordinary diversity of music in particular or sound in...”
– “Maggoty Lamb interviews visionary music critic David Toop” (The Guardian)
Wordlegs presents: 30 Under 30 →
This links to the new collection of Irish writing, featuring 30 writers under the age of 30. I’m generally against this sort of arbitrary ageism, unless by its grace I am included in an anthology.
I have pieces in volume one and volume two of this, so you know… get ‘em both.
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The Combo
Lou is working down at the old burrito place. A man enters and looks at the menu. LOU: Are you ready, sir? MAN: (still looking at the menu) What would you recommend as the most Christian burrito? LOU: The most Christian burrito? MAN: (looking up) Yeah, I’m looking for something Christian, preferably Catholic but generally Christlike would be fine. LOU: I’m afraid we don’t really have a Christian...
February 2012
9 posts
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Poet's Work
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoff
from this
condensery
- Lorine Niedecker, more here
“When the work of art is instead offered for aesthetic enjoyment and its formal...”
– Giorgio Agamben, Man Without Content, p. 102 (via yourharbour)
This is one of those ideas that takes itself way too seriously, but on the other hand might be exactly right. The concept of an “origin that gives itself in the work of art and remains reserved in it” probably isn’t...
This plays an untitled banjo tune played by Emma...
http://www.southernspaces.org/2011/irelands-first-s... →
This is Jesse P. Karlsberg’s essay on the first Irish Sacred Harp convention, which took place last year. I missed it, but I’m going to be home for the second convention next month and I can’t wait. The plans are made, I’m staying with lovely people and trying to hound more of my friends to come down for it. Jesse’s write up includes a lot of good background on what...
January 2012
6 posts
A half-formed, but potentially enjoyable, little...
She chops! She chops!
shitmystudentswrite:
She looks like a flower, but she stings like a bee, like every girl in history, She bangs! She bangs! An old Ricky Martin song, She Bangs, tells of the power that women have. In Lizzie Borden’s case however, she chops.
Drinking in Poetry / Poetry Off the Shelf : The... →
This is a whole heap of fun.
science tumbled: The Discovery of Vitamins →
This is some interesting information about vitamins and contains the following words in this order:
the Polish biochemist Casimir Funk
Casimir Funk, I don’t know you, but I’m sure the bands named after you are brilliant.
science:
The concept of vitamins is a hundred years old this year.
During the late 19th century, there were outbreaks of fatal beriberi in East Asia. The study...
December 2011
9 posts
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Okay so here's a small morning thought
For a long time, I’ve pretended to understand the role the audience plays in art, but I think I’ve been messing it up, working with a false theory.
What I already knew: The audience interprets, and each member has a unique experience of a given work.
I like that idea and on that basis I’ve left some work wide open, for the audience to have a kind of playground where you can...
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EXISTENTIAL CRISIS IN AISLE SEVEN
poetrybyemilydickinson:
Bro ghost crying naked hysterical In a grocery store fantasy on fire, face discovered girlfriend you cannot empty a basketball court of dogs or a face full of soy sausages or a generation of madness
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REMIX by: helpimburnt
ORIGINAL TEXT by: eyedoc11, vomitweet and ponsfordmcquain.
This is the best of these I’ve read yet, though I...
November 2011
10 posts
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Juliana Finch and the Gentlemen Scholars →
Friends, Atlanta friends specifically, but everybody sure why not, If I may promote for a moment - let me share with you the great fun I’ve been having in Juliana Finch’s new band. We’ve been getting together for the last month or two creating a mix of originals and covers in the grand old Irish-American folk tradition, and I can happily say my banjo and I are outclassed on all...
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Arise and Go! Review
In the current Critical Flame I review the heck out of SJS and Enda Reilly’s album/EP/whatever, Arise and Go!, which is well worth it if you’re into poetry and Irish music. They have some videos on youtube that give you the gist.
I enjoyed writing the review, even though it confused me a bit. Who really has the authority to go around reviewing things? How do you do it effectively?...
This isn’t the official party line, and perhaps my co-editor Clodagh Moynan won’t thank me for breaking away from that line, but for me Moloch is above all a conversation between Clodagh and myself.
- Ailbhe Darcy, interviewed in 3:AM
Getting over the giddy fun of quoting Ailbhe’s interview like it’s a Real Thing (which of course it is), I’d never really thought of Moloch (a...