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I’m not kidde-ing around
If you don’t have one of these ←in your home, get one. If you’ve got one, get more. Have at least one on every floor. Check them regularly. Replace them as needed. I did all that, because foresight. But didn’t … Continue reading
Richard III, uncovered
Shakespeare always walked a fine line with his treatment of monarchy. On the one hand, he knew that the lives of royals were deep and rich wells of entertainment; power, wealth, sex, and betrayal were as popular devices in fiction … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Pacino, Art, culture, literature, Looking for Richard, Richard III, Shakespeare, University of Leicester, what is culture?
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I culture you: A cigar for the end of the world
How will the end come? If the prophecies be true, will there be roars and tumults, crashing and burnings…? Or will we all just blink out? Call it 50/50 either way. Betting odds, enough, that I’m laying in one special … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, Cifuentes, I culture you, mayan apocalypse, Partagas 1845, prophecy, what is culture?
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Murder culture
Mass murder stains American culture and bleeds over the American psyche. Americans detest the fact that we breed this sort of thing, so horribly uniquely. We’re terrified it’s our national identity. So we react just as crazily in the aftermath, … Continue reading
RIP to two elder statesmen of the Arts
We lost two of the greats yesterday. We might console ourselves knowing they both lived to ripe old ages, and if they didn’t give us their all, in terms of their art, then they gave us so much that it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Art, arts, Dave Brubeck, jazz, jazz piano, RIP, United Nations, what is culture?
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I culture you: Music to write by
That headline comes with a huge asterisk: it’s music I write by. That’s all I can speak to. When I undertook to culture you on art, I began by telling you that art is subjective, emphatic period. That goes double … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, I culture you, music to write by, Pachelbel Canon in D, Rob Paravonian, what is culture?
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Plugging and playing
Update on the previously self-plugged blog experiment, The Plug and Play Life: Those playing along at home might remember that the goal was to breed long-format fiction with Tumblr, to see if a neverending story couldn’t be told, down through … Continue reading
RIP: Hector Camacho’s Brain
Hector “Macho” Camacho is brain dead. The headline above may sound flippant, but with all respect to Mr. Camacho, to his friends and family and to his millions of fans, no flippancy is intended. I’m just trying to make this … Continue reading
Save the pupfish
What is culture? By one definition it’s a thriving petri dish. That’s a metaphor for human culture for only the most cynical among us. If you can intervene to stop an extinction, should you? That’s a question that science journalist … Continue reading
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Tagged Cyprinodon diabolis, Devil's Hole, Hillary Rosner, pupfish, Wired Magazine, Wired.com
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Repelling boarders: an author’s guide to literary piracy
Intellectual property theft, just by virtue of that thunderous phrase, somehow sounds worse than any other kind of theft. It suggests, accurately enough, that those lowdown scalawags are stealing nothing less than the very issue of your mind. Given the … Continue reading
I culture you: Proof of leadership
Jimmy Carter was a teetotaler. So was William Howard Taft. So was George W. Bush, and so was Adolf Hitler. On the other team, among the men who enjoyed a drink or three while they won wars and led powerful … Continue reading
What the world needs now is more frackin’ Cylons
If you’re not a sci-fi fan, then you’re probably not much interested in, nor have you seen, Ronald Moore’s 2004-2009 Battlestar Galactica series. And that’s a pity, because it’s not for nothing that Time Magazine has named it one of … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC, Battlestar Galactica, Blood & Chrome, Caprica, fracking cylons, Ronald Moore, SciFi Channel, SyFy
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Election 2012: Final post
I could type another thousand words or so, but instead I’ll let this picture do my talking…
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Election liveblog (a long night ahead…)
Well here we go then. Polls have closed in a slew of eastern states (including my own) and the tabulations have begun. Let’s start digging into this thing… 11:17pm: Shutting this thing down now, with congratulations to President Barack Obama. … Continue reading
Election 2012 – liveblogging the results
This space is supposed to be reserved for only the most highbrowed discussion of art, literature, and culture. Yet again and again, we wade into the morass of political culture…probably solely because of our love of oxymorons. So…once more unto … Continue reading
