(click through to the artist’s website)
A Curiosity
This seems real, because to be a postmodern thing would be too much of a good thing. Surely there’s something we could do with this. Dare I propose an Assignment? (Conversational Phrases seems most promising, but all of them yielded opaque gems.)
Here’s another take on one of our older discussions…
http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/
Spam poetry
From today’s spam. This was from Violetta, and she’s from France. (My mail server has an excellent spamblock, but every now and then—after I click on the Reject all as spam button—I go and see what the message actually was.) Subject: I want to find a soul mate Tender, reliable,…
We all have come short
This is from today’s Writer’s Almanac. Today we celebrate the birthday of dime novelist Ned Buntline (books by this author), born Edward Zane Carroll Judson in Stamford, New York (1813) — probably, but not certainly, on this day. As a boy, he got in a fight with his father and…
100 Best British Films
From Time Out’s site, the 100 Best British Films. I’m reading through the top 10… and I have seen only 3 of them. Hell, I only know those 3. Anybody else?