Monthly Archives: August 2009
Here’s 19 I remembers.
I remember Wranglers, husky size. I remember watching the Solid Gold dancers, Sheena Easton and Mary Jane Girls gyrate in shiny pants. I remember slow dancing to “Stairway to Heaven” with a senior my freshman year. I was blushing the … Continue reading
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A quote from Alfred Kazin’s "New York: The Writer in the Powerhouse."
Unsere ist eine optische Zeit read the sign over the ruins of postwar Cologne. “Ours is a visual period.” The irony was not intentional. At the same time in New York, abstract expressionism made the city “the capital of modern … Continue reading
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Franz Kafka on using "once"
From “The Veto of the Imagination: A Theory of Autobiography,” by Louis A. Renza, New Literary History, Vol. 9, No. 1, Self-1977), pp. 1-26. From DanielNester.com
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Website updates: columns, pictures, and stuff with which I still need help.
See the column over there to your left? I just did that. It took a lot of amateur HTMLing on my part. I put some promotional copy in there, including handy-dandy “buy” buttons. Which I encourage you to use! Anyway, … Continue reading
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Kiss’s Goin’ Blind: covers (Melvins et al.), alternate versions.
Le chanson. Wow. If anyone has any information on this video, email me. This is hilarious, not only because Paul Stanley just is hilarious, but because the picture and sound are out of sync. String quartet version. The astoundingly superb … Continue reading
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