Hot: Author’s Note: Some editing may apply to the article below. This article was originally 2 hours worth of unedited vitriol, inspired by the inordinate amount of time it takes me to remove spammers from my follower list on Twitter. (I block because I care about the health of the network.) I would like to [...]
Hot: Gentle readers, I awoke this morning with renewed vim and vigor, or at the very least, with a bit of a realization. I’ve let you down, gentle readers. Let you flounder in an unending sea of Twitter reposts, in which you silently, patiently await real content from me or one of my contributing writers. [...]
Hot: Ok so admittedly it isn’t going to be quite that big, but it does give me an opportunity to use the first WTK vocabulary term: brobdingnagian. This originates from the Jonathan Swift novel, Gulliver’s Travels. The term was coined as a reference to the city in which Gulliver visits where everything is just huge. [...]
Hot: If someone reliable could tell me when in the future films would become solely based on finances it’d certainly save me the hassle of looking up articles on the Internet. If someone told me it would be next week I wouldn’t be shocked in the least since in it’s current state it’s just about [...]
Hot: Let me start by saying that this grouping is little more than a list of some of my favorite books. It in no way purports to be comprehensive in any sense, nor are the books presented in any particular order. Many are distinctly Modern (I’m looking at you, Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss and Lauren [...]
Hot: From the UN’s Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, and MonkeyFilter comes this link to a beautifully presented full translation of the Tale of Genji. The web layout comes in small, easy to read chunks for those of us who have trouble staring at large blocks of text, and it also presents the gorgeous illustrations [...]
Hot: I dreamt about a lot of things. I dreamt about being interrupted during what was ostensibly my high school graduation by a flirty boy who was also graduating by some kind of satellite deal so he was there/not there. The majority of my “class” was people I work with. Some strangers. Some people I [...]
Hot: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061114/od_nm/court_davincicode1_dc Because if your quasi-similar novel doesn’t sell, you can always sue, right? It’s nice to know that the justice system might work. Not that I have any love for Dan Brown. I couldn’t even finish Da Vinci Code, I found the writing to be a lot like someone describing a cheap action movie. [...]
Hot: Go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 pick five quotes you like a whole lot, and post them. Forcing the spread of a trend/meme/whatnot is sooooo myspace. pfft. That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967), ‘But [...]
Hot: After visting the TokiDoki site I have found something to lust after. A crazy-hot slipcover for my iPod Shuffle. Mmm….. it’s Shuffle-icious. I discovered after a little poking about that they’re available from iSkin. There’s covers for iPod Mini also. I spend a good deal of time attached to my iPod, escaping the mindless [...]
