On Radio 4 today, they were talking about the editing process for John Fowles’ journals [you know, the guy who wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman], and I found myself thinking “I’ve never managed to maintain a diary for more than a couple of days”. Which is an odd thing to say, when this blog has [...]
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Three translations of Montale
20 January 2006 – 12:13 pm
Peter Sirr compares three different translations of a poem by Eugenio Montale over at The Cat Flap.
Linkworthiness
18 January 2006 – 9:09 am
An art-type thing at Pruned, and via Interactive Architecture dot org, the Airship to Orbit program. Check out the animation, which has the cheesiest music in the world ever. Oh, and KLF’s The Manual (How To Have A Number One The Easy Way).
Wordpress upgrade
16 January 2006 – 2:46 pm
Well, I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.0 – despite the fact that they’re probably about to release 2.0.1 - and so far so good. Most (all?) of the changes are things which aren’t visible to you lot. It seems generally nicer to use, though the WYSIWYG editor doesn’t like Safari. *shrug*. The new Admin pages are [...]
Adult film posters (and some other stuff)
9 January 2006 – 10:14 pm
Adult movie posters, via we make money not art, who got it from Camp Heatwole.
edit: more linkworthiness. Dazzle painting, via gravestmor. It’s worth looking at the pictures and clicking on the links in the dazzle article.
further edit: Bangladeshi rickshaw art, via Metafilter.
and still more: Crop Art, also via Camp Heatwole.
linkworthy weirdness
6 January 2006 – 11:37 am
… at Pruned.
And it took a while, but the future may finally be here.
Orientalism and crying wolf
30 December 2005 – 5:36 pm
This blog-post on the Hwang debacle kind of annoyed me. As is probably obvious from what I said in the comments section. The relevant part of the post is this :
It sounds like there was nothing in the paper that should have given Hwang Woo-suk away; doubtless he faked the data to be believable. But [...]
Szirtes on the myopia of poets
21 December 2005 – 12:13 pm
George Szirtes has an interesting post up at the moment, which starts:
One of the reasons I became a poet rather than a novelist is, perhaps, because I have a far stronger sense of events - nature as event, phenomena as event, objects as event - than of people. To most poets I suspect other people [...]
So why blog against racism anyway?
2 December 2005 – 2:25 am
Two questions really - why did *I* choose to take part, especially since I didn’t have much to say, and why have a B. A. R. Day at all?
The first question is easy - I think it’s an interesting and potentially valuable exercise, and I wanted to support it and help spread the idea. I [...]
Blog Against Racism Day
2 December 2005 – 12:03 am
I find other people’s overt racism deeply offensive. On the other hand I score rather badly on the race version of the Implicit Association Test which is supposed to measure unconscious bias.
I don’t think the test result means that the offended reaction is any less genuine, but it does suggest it’s not the whole story. [...]
blog design
29 November 2005 – 1:04 am
I’ve been thinking about web design recently, specifically as it applies to a possible redesign for this blog. There’s no rush, because the current look is fairly new and I’m pleased with it, but I had set myself a more ambitious target. Inspired by an exchange I had with Will over at Corridor of Uncertainty, [...]
music on the net
18 November 2005 – 8:20 pm
I’ve only just started getting into music blogs, but they’re fabulous. Of the ones I visit at the moment, the ones which I’ve taken most music from are PopText and Funky16Corners, but I’m currently listening to a 70 minute mix of ‘dancehall/bashment, reggaeton, R’n’B/hip hop/crunk, soca, reggae and ragga jungle’ from Heatwave which I learned [...]
my poetry head
18 November 2005 – 1:24 pm
Clear evidence that I haven’t been in poetry mode much recently. I was roasting some bones yesterday to make stock with, and thought to myself ‘Roasting Bones - that would be a good title for a blog’. Whereas in fact, it would be *much better* as the title of a poem. Book of poems, [...]
New design for the blog
18 November 2005 – 12:16 am
As should be pretty obvious, I’ve re-designed the blog. Again. If it looks peculiar on your computer, let me know. I’ve pretty much decided not to make the extra effort to make the site work on early versions of Internet Explorer, but if it’s not looking right on IE6 I might need to do something [...]
Flickr interesting photo meme
12 November 2005 – 11:41 pm
Well, it’s not actually a meme unless anyone copies the idea, but hey-ho. Or at least, I guess technically it still is a meme, just an unsuccessful one. Don’t get me started on evolutionary theory.
Search Flickr for photos tagged with your first name. View them ordered as ‘most interesting’. Post the most interesting photo to [...]
A silly new feature!
7 November 2005 – 4:38 pm
I’ve added a list of music I’m currently listening to in the sidebar on the left. It uses a neat little Wordpress plugin called WP-Scrobbler that grabs the info from your Audioscrobbler feed. So that list on the left automatically updates as I listen to music thorough iTunes. Or at least I think it updates [...]
You can tell I have something I should be doing
2 November 2005 – 9:29 pm
A new logo for Will:
Just playing around.
Jensania
25 October 2005 – 9:55 pm
Charles Jensen, not content with introducing us to Magic Earring Ken, also shares this link.
Kinemapoetics - it’s the blog that keeps on giving.
The feelgood movie of the year!
13 October 2005 – 8:58 pm
A heartwarming story of… well, just watch the trailer.
(via bookslut)