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The prose of Independence – Happy Fourth of July
When in the Course of human events…. It must have been decreed somewhere, by someone, that if you are writing your manifesto, you must purple up your prose. Self-consciousness infects the pen, and the desire to inveigh into and against … Continue reading
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Tagged Declaration of Independence, Fourth of July, Thomas Jefferson
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Something new, something cool: Booktrope
It’s nice, for a change, to report on something new in publishing without opining on its contribution to publishing’s ruination. Say hello to Booktrope, for my money the biggest and best development in the book-publishing business in at least a … Continue reading
America evolves
Evolution takes time, and all that America has needed to evolve toward equality and inclusiveness is time. We’ve needed time to nurture a generation that’s willing to judge people based on who they are, versus what they look like or … Continue reading
Library performance art
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
RIP Sir Christopher Lee (May 27 1922 – June 7 2015)
If only we could all age as gracefully and (no other word for it) as bad-assedly as consummate actor and Commander of the British Empire, Sir Christopher Lee. And if only we could do justice here to his film career. … Continue reading
An author’s self-defense, or social-media suicide?
* The online indie-author milieu lit up this weekend as a one-star Goodreads review turned into viral humiliation for self-published author Dylan Saccoccio. A less charitable observer might say Saccoccio’s imploded reputation is entirely self-inflicted. A more constructive one might … Continue reading
Richard Prince: borrowing talent, selling a lie
Careful what you upload to Instagram. You just might wind up an inadvertent and uncompensated collaborator to serial fauxtographer, Richard Prince. Prince seems to have built a career by profiting from a fine line that most artists, writers, and harried … Continue reading
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Tagged art theft, fair use, Richard Prince, SuicideGirls, What is art?
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Pseudo-post Sunday
It’s a beautiful day where I live, hope it’s reasonably similar where you live…and rather than wasting spending the next few hours tapping out my biased yet brilliant decon of the culture we all loathe love, I am instead embedding … Continue reading
Andy Warhol and the 64-bit treasure hunt
Just over a year ago the Andy Warhol Museum announced something the art world couldn’t have anticipated: the recovery of numerous works by the pop-art maestro unseen for nearly 30 years. Of course, discovery or rediscovery of lost masterpieces isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Art, Commodore Amiga, Cory Arcangel, digital art, pop art, The Warhol Museum
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Too many to remember, too execrable to forget
Hat tip and thanks to online comedy purveyors Above Average for providing a timely if flippant reminder that history abounds with calamitous jackasses. The debut episode of their edifyingly educational web series, Forgotten Assholes of History is up (as well as … Continue reading
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Ex libris
Libraries are living institutions, and that’s as unerringly true whether they’re public lenders or personal collections. In either case they’re bound to grow, as long as people care enough to nurture them. But they retract, too. Or shed, you might … Continue reading
History in the margins
It might be the bane of librarians, but after a certain interval marginalia becomes history itself. In this case the tome is the Black Book of Carmarthen (so named for its distinctive black binding), and as the oldest known manuscript … Continue reading
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Tagged books, culture, history, marginalia, Michele Smarty, what is culture?, Words I Seek
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They burned the Temple down (and that’s a good thing)
A bonfire in Northern Ireland is an event heavy with meaning. In recent times they’ve been as sectarian as most other things in life there: Loyalists tend to hold theirs in July, using them to commemorate the Orange victory and … Continue reading
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Tagged David Best, Londonderry Temple, Northern Ireland, world peace
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Faces of inspiration
The muse presents herself exactly as she wills, and to trying to predict what inspires artists is certain folly. It’s the will o’ the wisp, inspiration is, and difficult though it is to chase and capture, that very elusiveness is … Continue reading
