December 2009
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ListenThe Adjusters - Mood Red Jessica Basta, proud U...
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ListenLiz Phair - Dance of the Seven Veils (live) ...
Dec 30th
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Anticipated Stranger,
the bruise will stop by later. For now, pain pauses in its round, notes the time of day, the patient’s temperature, leaves a memo for the surrogate: what the hell did you think you were doing? I mean … Oh well, less said the better, they all say. I’ll post this at the desk. God will find the pattern and break it. -John Ashbery
Dec 29th
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This Is Just To Say
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold -William Carlos Williams
Dec 28th
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Terrorist update →
My folks’ friend Gary makes videos like I blog, posting his work on youtube. The link above will take you to a 90-second video of Oscar and my dad on one of Oscar’s first trips to the ocean. COMPELLING STUFF! Thanks, Gary!
Dec 28th
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ListenPrince and The Revolution - Let’s Go Crazy ...
Dec 23rd
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Listenmurmure: Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Dec 22nd
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Listenmurmure: Arcade Fire - Ocean of Noise
Dec 22nd
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ListenR.E.M. - These Days . . . I'm not feeding off you,...
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NPR'S Best Books of 2009 →
Oh, wonderful! Nerds rejoice! I particularly like the teaser NPR offers for mystery readers: “Holiday season have you feeling a touch homicidal? Critic Maureen Corrigan offers a selection of sleuth stories and hard-boiled whodunits to satisfy all your deepest literary desires.” sarahspy: Listed by genres, including: best debut fiction, book club picks, memoirs, under-the-radar...
Dec 21st
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Sylvia Plath and her Daddy
Sylvia Plath’s father, Otto Plath, was a committed academic of some renown and was significantly older than Plath’s mother. His personality was not so inclined to fatherhood, and he was a largely absent and distant father. For example, when her father came home from work in the evening, Sylvia and her younger brother were often sent upstairs to play — away from the room in which...
Dec 20th
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“FULL FATHOM FIVE Old man, you surface seldom. Then you come in with the...”
– Sylvia Plath
Dec 20th
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ListenBjörk - Gloomy Sunday (Billie Holiday cover) ...
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ListenContinuing the series … . jenrobinson: ...
Dec 20th
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ListenLovely. murmure: Radiohead - Unravel (Björk...
Dec 20th
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ListenIt’s a Radiohead sort of evening. ...
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ListenAaliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew (Image via)
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ListenAwesome. Even if it is very un-summery out. ...
Dec 18th
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ListenBecause I am SO DAMNED HAPPY IT’S FRIDAY,...
Dec 18th
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ListenSteve Earle - Loretta (Townes Van Zandt cover) As...
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Listen fivefifteen: Yeah Yeah Yeah - “Maps”...
Dec 17th
Who do you love? →
This website “maps” the authors you are most likely to enjoy based on the name of the author you provide. I’m not sure this really works, but it certainly inspires me to bulk up my to-read piles.
Dec 17th
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ListenMoira Smiley & VOCO - Bring Me A Little Water,...
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