Here, here, here. Came seemingly out of nowhere in the past few weeks. Books sound interesting. Lots of play on the better litblogs.
I’d like it on record that I doubt his very existence.
Archive for August, 2009
Mario Bellatin
Monday, August 31st, 2009Hawaii Five-O Syndication Sales Reel
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Watch for Stephen Boyd. Up the rebels!!
A Re-evaluation Of The 1970 Academy Award For Best Music, Original Score for a Motion Picture (not a Musical)
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Like many other contests, sometimes the Academy gets it right, and sometimes they botch the play. In this case the rightful winner wasn’t even nominated. I feel very strongly about this year, and this category. And the nominees are:
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Happy Birthday
Monday, August 24th, 2009Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, born this day in 1899.
Walkabout
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Birthday Party on Gotterdamerung – Junkyard
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
“The Man with the Golden Arm” by Barry Adamson
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
PleaseGodNo
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Via metafilter, this thing.
Scariest pipedream ever. Imagine having an absinthe in the shadow of St. Louis cathedral (Ms. Thais will hook you up), a cigarette as you stroll in the Quarter, a coffee on the street somewhere in our country’s first and last bohemia (endangered as it is), then imagine looking up…what’s that you see in the distance?
An aesthetic nightmare*.
*Space for three casinos and 500,000 sq. ft. of retail space helpfully included.
Havana Cuba 1930s
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009James Baldwin asks (in The Devil Finds Work), why was Hemingway so passionate about the politics of 1930s Spain, and so silent about the politics of Cuba in the Fifties??
3 Euros
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009