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11.21.2007
Ha! Dan Chiasson has said the perfect thing
about Robert Hass's "Meditation at Lagunitas" in the 11/19 New Yorker:
But "Meditation at Lagunitas" wields its chasteness like bait: it would be just the poem to get a chaste person to go to bed with you.
Blackberry, blackberry, blackberry: I know of at least one friend from undergrad who used it for exactly that.
But "Meditation at Lagunitas" wields its chasteness like bait: it would be just the poem to get a chaste person to go to bed with you.
Blackberry, blackberry, blackberry: I know of at least one friend from undergrad who used it for exactly that.
11.10.2007
Cool cheap(ish) gifts!
--some neat stuff I've bookmarked over the past few months. Not a wishlist--though I'm pretty in love with that chupacabra--just finds I wanted to share. All $30 or under.
Nifty blackboard globe-- about $20 from Muji (overseas order)
Fabric maps--perfect for someone like me who'd rather stuff a map in her back pocket than even attempt to fold it up. $5.95 apiece from Rand McNally. Might also make funky bandanna, tourniquet, etc.
Guitar pick customized with any image--
$11 at the Guthrie Thomas Company
Rubik's cube with 6 images you choose (advertised for "family photos", but I bet they'd let you use 6 images of different Shakespeare sonnets, or the same word in different fonts, or...)--$30 at gifts.com
"Prove You're Not a Robot" Captcha T-Shirt, $22 at crush3r.com
Loch Ness Monster or Chupacabra Magnet--$6 at PearsonMaron at Etsy.
Nifty blackboard globe-- about $20 from Muji (overseas order)
Fabric maps--perfect for someone like me who'd rather stuff a map in her back pocket than even attempt to fold it up. $5.95 apiece from Rand McNally. Might also make funky bandanna, tourniquet, etc.
Guitar pick customized with any image--
$11 at the Guthrie Thomas Company
Rubik's cube with 6 images you choose (advertised for "family photos", but I bet they'd let you use 6 images of different Shakespeare sonnets, or the same word in different fonts, or...)--$30 at gifts.com
"Prove You're Not a Robot" Captcha T-Shirt, $22 at crush3r.com
Loch Ness Monster or Chupacabra Magnet--$6 at PearsonMaron at Etsy.
11.07.2007
Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of...
I haven't read a new Joyce Carol Oates in years, but her forthcoming (April 2008) looks interesting: Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway. From Booklist's starred review: "Protean and intrepid Oates not only pays homage to five American writers by brilliantly emulating their styles, but also…plays fast and loose with biography to imagine their final days or, in the case of Emily Dickinson, resurrection. Oates is by turns mischieviously witty, superbly macabre, and exquisitely sensitive as she parlays bravado literary criticism into shivery stories that undermine iconic figures…Oates envisions [Poe] living on as a lighthouse keeper in the South Pacific…[she] is diabolical in her satirical portrait of…Mark Twain as a pedophile."
Resurrection! Pedophilia! Best of all: she didn't choose Plath.
Resurrection! Pedophilia! Best of all: she didn't choose Plath.
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