Okay, This is the Real Avant-garde Today

Even if it's not real. Especially if it's not real. If it is real, it's actually kind of demented.




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Defending Eunoia might be about as far as I can go for the avant-garde. This just seems utterly ridiculous. If it looks like a Bradbury story, walks like a Bradbury story, and quacks like a Bradbury story...then no one should actually try to do it!

The Brain Alphabet

I don't really know what to say about this, but I'm sure the poets will have something to contribute. (LOL* Boingboing)



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Mysterious Book May Be Hoax!

Well, really, aren't all books hoaxes? (LOL*LISNews)



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Good Thing They Weren't the Books from that Box in the Back of His Closet at His Parents' House....

Man trapped under mountain of books rescued.



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I'd Just Like to Have a Hardcover Someday...

When words don't matter so much, big books are in.



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Poetry Avoids Getting Run Over

And ends up in Italy, of all places.



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Kill the Authors!

Writers and video game deathmatches meet! What could be better? (LOL* Bookslut)



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File This Under: Stop That or I'll Take It Away!

Ripping up books. It sounds so decadent when someone other than my son is doing it.



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I once burned a book bit by bit ion an old coal stove. It was an early Salman Rushdie long before the fatwah...

Book Nerds Succeeding in Squash?

Yay! Kick that little smelly ball's arse with your round racquet dealies.



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"I am in my bedroom in the palace. There is a four-poster bed, and not much else. A portrait hangs on the wall. An exit leads north."

Play the Hamlet adventure game! (LOL* Neil Gaiman)



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The Thin, Hooded, Trembling Monk Did It!

I so want this Name of the Rose inspired board game.



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Can You Believe This?

These chaps-wearing yokels are getting more press than Lou Ferrigno's barbell! And in Nye County's largest newspaper!



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Enter the Exotic World of Typewriter Porn

Oh yeah, there's other stuff about the history of the typewriter or something. Typewriter porn! (Probably not worksafe.) (LOL* Fleshbot)



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Joyce's Ulysses Leads Students to Porn

Well, actually it was the profs, who justify it by saying: "Watching pornography in a classroom becomes a Brechtian experience, causing discomfort and alienation. Porn then reveals not just flesh, but also its formal conventions, its repetitive narratives, its tableaux of power, its cold ideologies, its descent into bathos." Uh huh.



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Parrot Has Greater Vocabulary than Average Canadian Poet - Sure to be "Last Standing" After CBC Poetry Face-Off (snicker ... snort ... hehehe ... "full contact" ... woo! Rich!)

Well, last perching. But rest assured - without arms he can't properly accentuate his poet voice or stuff an envelope... or can he?



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I wish a parrot would show up and take over for me. I need an assistant.

I'd like hear what a linguist has to say about N'kisi's use of language. Oh yeah, apparently N'kisi can read minds as well as talk ... http://www.sheldrake.org/nkisi/ Here's the homepage of the "scientist" involved: http://www.sheldrake.org/

We Get What We Deserve

Richard Ford on football.



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Because God Knows They Won't Learn About it in the Schoolyard (or the Back of a Station Wagon in About Six Years...)

A Hallmark Sales Day, er, Valentine's Day display at a bookstore in the US contained a book called Wild Sex (is this the one?). Police grew concerned when they noticed a couple of 8-year-olds flipping through it. Presumably the cops had been staking out the display for some time.



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Canada Pub Crawl

Where do we sign on? (Hell, we're willing to just run along side this guy like he was a drunken Terry Fox... If you stumble, my friend, we will be there...) (From Sarah)



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Ruins

An interesting piece, not wholly bookish, on ruins and their place in art. "A ruin has two values. It is a material record of a past age. It is also an inspiration. How do we quantify one value against the other?"



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Now Why Couldn't Sleeman's Do This Instead of Axing Awards?

Literary beer mats (coasters). The world just got slightly, if imperceptably, better. (From Elegant Variation)



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Architecture v. Literature

Oh, for shelf space.*



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Cloak and Gown
I just stumbled across this article about how the CIA was influenced by literary scholarship.
"Mole-hunter James Jesus Angleton, the most controversial figure in CIA history, began his career as an apprentice of the New Critics on Yale's English faculty, and his literary training in 'close reading' may have shaped his hyper-skeptical (some would say paranoid) approach to counterintelligence."

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That reminds me of something I read about the Commie-hunter Whittaker Chambers, of the whole microfilm-in-the-pumpkin thing: that in his youth he was quite a serious poet allied with the American Modernists

Hey, Cancer-Seekers - Your Salvation Awaits

Hate those warnings on yer smokes, dere chief? Get yourself a "cigarette novel" to cover em up! (I remember when the ones with pictures of smoking related illnesses first came out - kids were collecting them.)



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Typewriter Redux
Like the benefits of a computer but miss the old-style typewriters? Now you can have both with this mod!

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"I must be cruel only to be kind"
Looking for an oxymoronic or paradoxical quotation by a famous writer? Oxymoronica may be the site for you.
"Any compilation of phrases or quotations that initially appear illogical or nonsensical, but upon reflection, make a good deal of sense and are often profoundly true."

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Match Made in Heaven Now Gone to Heaven...

"The inquest on Thursday heard that Mr Howell, 78, suffered from a condition which caused him to hoard newspapers, magazines and food packets and that Mrs Howell, who suffered from schizophrenia and depression, had been telling doctors since 1976 she found his condition upsetting. A police statement said officers found Mrs Howell in the lounge, buried from the waist by a pile of books. Books and magazines were stacked floor to ceiling in many rooms and the kitchen and stairway were full of milk and ham cartons which had been cleaned and neatly stacked." I seriously fear this is how Ailsa and I will go. Except for the mental illness part. Well...



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The Little Prince Fell to Earth

Literally. Antoine de Saint-Exupery's plane found.



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Vive Antoine. Wind, Sand and Stars is an amazing, philosophical aviation novel written by the last gentlemen's gentleman. There isn't a page in that book that doesn't have some useful and beautiful sentence.

Slate About to Get Scads of Angry Email from People Who Love Jesus

And George Wubblewoo Bush.



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Ever Wonder What the M in 3M Stands For? Or How Amazon Got Its Name?
The good souls at wikipedia have the answers to these questions, and many more when it comes to company names.

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THAT's What's Wrong with My Journal Subscriptions....

None of them could be mistaken for explosives. (From Moorish Girl)



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So This is Why Reviewing is So Often Painful for Me...

All this time I just needed science to make it clear...



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Ten New States Join the EU

God, I wish we'd join. If only to put a little more ethical distance between us and George Wubblewoo "Orwell" down there. Plus, Europe could use our microbreweries. (Is there a single pub there that doesn't stock Heineken? Blech.)



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Hooray for Poland! Now send us some more god-like poets already!

i don't know where this should go

http://viral.lycos.co.uk/attachments/1381/...banTrunkMonkey.mpeg

Yes, more Polish poets. Hear hear. Here here. How old is Wislawa? What will we do without her? I already fear her passing like a beloved family member...

The Book is an Object, Not Its Author

"A copy of Vogue will cost the same as a paperback of Wuthering Heights. You can chuck the mag with impunity, but I have yet to meet the person who can toss a paperback into the bin as if it were a crisp-packet. It's one of the few things that is still sacrilege, riddled with emotional associations. It's a powerful taboo from a time before reproduction, when a book was not a copy of a book, but an original, like a painting. The object and the content were the same thing. Now they are not, but the taboo lives on." Interesting subject, but did anyone else find this piece poorly constructed?



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I actually like the idea of that Burning Books show.

Of course, I also think open mikes should be run like the Gong Show.

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I think open mics should be run just like the Burning Books show...

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The Four-Letter Word Was "Utah"

I so desperately wanted the clue to be "Hell's armpit where cousins marry", but alas, it has something to do with WWII and beaches and stuff (seriously, this is pretty interesting stuff).



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I Think a Few of These Poems Won Student Awards at York...

These found grocery lists are oddly compelling in a way that much of the poetry that resembles them isn't. (From Scribbling Woman)



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Thinking of Oprah Tossing Salad is Making Me Want to Toss My Cookies...

Okay, so this isn't totally book related, but it's pretty funny. An annoymous tip (BWTFL) comes into the Bookninja front office (my inbox) with a link to The Smoking Gun and a series of emails sent to the FCC complaining about an episode of Oprah's idiot-fest in which she explicitly describes, and chats saucily about, teen sexuality (including rainbows and tossed salads). While there's nothing wrong with any of the acts described (in fact...), the particularly vicious letters decry the double standard of fining shows like Howard Stern while darling Oprah "gets off" the hook for talking about anus-licking at 4:30 in the afternoon. Screw the book club, I gotta watch Oprah for the felching... Now if only Oprah were Angela Bassett... Brrrowr!



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Hard Time Writing These Days?

Why not make yourself useful and take a crack at an unsolved code or cipher like the "Voynich Manuscript"... (From Incoming Signals)



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From Hell's Heart I Serenade Thee
Moby Dick -- the opera! Of course, why didn't I think of this?


A new English-language opera based on Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick premiered in Amsterdam for a one-night performance in the Stadsschouwburg, or city music hall.

Named after the book's famous opening line, Call Me Ishmael drew a full house Sunday and standing ovation for composer Gary Goldschneider, who had worked on the piece for nearly twenty years. Goldschneider said the opera will now go on tour to several European summer festivals, and is discussing a trip to the United States with the American Landmarks Festival series.


I don't know -- this sounds fishy to me. Hello? This thing on?

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The Bigge Bagel
Ryan Bigge is writing a Montreal diary using the Fibonacci Sequence as a guide. No, I don't understand it, but I like Montreal, so I'll keep checking back.

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If you're in to this sort of thing, you might have a look at Ron Silliman's Tjanting. Composed between 1977-80 and published in 1981 the book-length prose-poem is written according to the Fibonacci number sequence, with the result that the number of sentences in each paragraph equals the number of sentences in the previous two paragraphs.

Lego My Books

I hope Christian Bök gets a cut of this... Maybe he can quit cowtown and head back to civilization.



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It used to be 'the book based on the movie' and now it's the 'book based on the toy'. I'm sure LEGO is busy making movies about these new products, too. They have in the past. It is a pity, this degeneration. I used to respect the company and still do think their blocks and little ninja guys are swell (my boys are fond of them too) but now that you can't walk anywhere in the house without picking up a little hand or grimacing Sirius Black face between your toes,and the demands for LEGO knights rises, I may be forced to draw the line. TOO MUCH PLASTIC ON THE EARTH!!!!!

What Lego should be doing is printing words on the sides of their blocks. The Lego Build-a-Book, or something like that. You could build an impenetrable Lego fortress wall of impenetrable poetry.

Just When I Thought America Couldn't Get Any Stranger
Salon reports a bunch of senators crowned Reverend Moon in a secret ceremony.


You probably imagine your congressman hard at work in the Capitol debating legislation, making laws -- you know, governing. But your newspaper probably didn't tell you that one night in March, members of Congress hosted a crowning ritual for an ex-convict and multibillionaire who dressed up in maroon robes and declared himself the Second Coming.

On March 23, the Dirksen Senate Office Building was the scene of a coronation ceremony for Rev. Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin -- the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him, calling him "none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent."

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Flip Books Making Come Back

And just in time. Have you seen the ads for I, Robot? If I don't have something equally geeky to concentrate on I may just end up ponying the $12 to see that dreck.

Achingly simple to make, flip books are like portable short films, sans camera or display mechanism (no screen required). An art form that evolved from zoetropes (rotating 19th-century toys that showed moving pictures) and thaumatropes (rapidly flipping discs that showed a moving image), the flip book was used by photography pioneers like Thomas Edison to understand the concept of capturing a moving image.



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File under: Only in America...

I can't even begin to summarize this tiny piece.



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Booktown
This place is trying to be a physical Abebooks.com. How quaint.


It was a year to the day since Blaenavon, the small coal and iron town in South Wales, launched an audacious experiment -- to build a new prosperity based on second-hand books in a post-industrial graveyard of dead jobs.

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Everyone wants a look at Vita Sackville-West's flower...

First it was Virginia, then the tourists started coming too...



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Take heart, America

Apparently mobs make great decisions! (Um, stoning or burning? BURNING! Peaceful dispersement or wild rampage? RAMPAGE! RAMPAGE!) Oh, wait...

There are flaws with group wisdom, Surowiecki says. The best collective ideas come out of diverse contributions, but some groups might have individuals so strong that others play follow-the-leader instead of thinking for themselves.

Hmmm. I wonder how that comes into play...



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Only in Tex-ass

Small town agog over porno in the community centre can.



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"Would Moby Dick be better if Melville had used a word processor?"

Well, Jonathans? Would it? (From Maud)



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Depends if he was drunk and it was new year's eve.

The Library of Unwritten Books

Conveniently located next to the Graveyard of Broken Hopes and the Mausoleum of Shattered Dreams.

An art project travelling the UK, this library is collecting stories and ideas for books people would like to write - but never have, and probably never will.

Its two librarians - Sam Brown and Caroline Jupp - have collected more than 400 stories over the last two years, and are aiming for a total of 1,000.

Send 'em my way next... I got a few stacked up on the backburner. And they're getting a little overcooked.



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The Book Art of Robert Minsky
Very cool site featuring the book as an art/political fetish object using various technologies.

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What do these ladies and Maya Angelou have in common?

Too much, and yet not nearly enough. (From PFW)



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You darling, darling! You wield that cane as if to the manor born!
OK, it's not exactly literature, but the Victorian Sex Cry Generator may appeal to the academic ninjas.

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Not book-related but oh, so revealing

Ladies and gentlemen, I may be related to this man. I'm very serious. I still have to call my dad to confirm it's not my uncle. Funny thing is, if it is him, I'm pretty sure he had no intention of fencing it.



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You know what we do with poetry lovers up in these here parts, don't you?

We shoot em.



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Marketing ploys usually stink, but this...

This has the whiff of great literature about it. (Not sure how much I want to smell Proust. The name's always sounded like an anatomical nether region to me... God, my proust is so itchy today, for some reason...)



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Insane typewriter art
I want to believe this is some sort of trick, but hey, if people can draw naked women in ASCII, then why not the Mona Lisa using a typewriter?

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My favorite is this one in which Jesus is blasting a deathray from his head.

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http://www.paulsmithfoundation.org/display_012.htm

Holy plants!

For your most obscure reference and hexing needs: all the plants in the Bible... (From Incoming Signals)



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Word tree

Ah, the internet's diversions just get prettier and prettier... (From Clive)



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Shop here for great TV!

When some (usually undesirable) task took me into the cesspool of New York City (Times Square) I was always surprised to find tourists walking around with shopping bags from NBC or CNN... Disney I can understand, even if I loathe it, but television networks? Are you such sheep? Here's a map for you, if so... Baaaa! (From Incoming Signals)



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Hot for teacher, freezing for 10 months

Aw! Winnipeg gets all the GOOD stuff...!



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Frye's mum gets new tombstone

There's really not much more to add than that.



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This story is about Philip Larkin's lawnmower. No shit.

Yep. That about covers it.



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Man reads entire Britannica, beds beautiful woman

An Esquire editor decided to do the unthinkable, be a nerd and get laid nightly.

Jacobs was educated in quality schools but in retrospect he realizes "there was too much `think for yourself' stuff being allowed us. I've come to realize that there's actually something to said for memorizing lists of dates and names."

When asked when he felt our intellectual values started sliding downhill, he looks reflective before breaking into a grin.

"We could date it to the first episode of Green Acres ... or the start of MTV, that certainly did some damage."

He says he started to slide by the age of 17. "I had given up by then on the delusion I once held that I was the smartest boy in the world.

"But after I graduated college is when my intelligence really started falling. I gave up reading and immersed myself in the visual culture. I stopped using my brain the way I had in school."



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Didn't she hear the beeping?

On the tragic side of the news, George Eliot has been hit by truck.



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File under: Just freaking great

Those wacky Swedes... I expect the armada will arrive within our lifetime to put our opaque, lyrical asses out of their misery.



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"CSI — Neverland"
Some of the mad geniuses over at Second Life have created a Peter Pan world. Weird but cool.

"Mister and Miss Darling," Peter announces out loud, "I'm here to kidnap your children."

By now, I'm accompanied on the tour by Spellbound residents, all the lead characters from the original novel, and not a few of the supporting players.

"So when the event starts," I ask, "will you all be role playing these characters you're in now?"

"It will be improv," says Fey, "like Oz was."

"The avatars will be offered to everyone in London," Baccara elaborates later. "To wear on their journey. You will be able to roleplay yourself."

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A bibliophile's bedroom
I actually had a room once that looked just like this. I was a starving student at the time....

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I'm guessing the lavatory is made out of old Sears catalogues.

Coffee table books for freaks

That pretty much sums it up...


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"I love a martini -- but two at the most. Three I'm under the table; Four, I'm under the host."

This disposably rich ought to check this out. I like the sound of that... "The disposable rich." Coming soon to a poem near you.



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Oh, I think he knows the frequency
Harper's posts its essay on the beating of Dan Rather by a couple of men asking, "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" (The event later inspired a song by REM.) Turns out it was Donald Barthelme's henchmen.

Imagine my shock at finding, quite out of the blue, the words "Kenneth" and "What is the frequency?" combined within the same text, by a writer from Houston, Dan Rather's hometown.

It was an odd coincidence. What are the chances of finding "Kenneth" and "What is the frequency?" in any way connected to each other, outside of the mouths of Mr. Rather's attackers? And yet here they were, inside Donald Barthelme's book.

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Barnes and Noble the best pick up joint in NYC?

That's funny... The same survey conducted in Georgia found Slippery McWillie's Bait Shop and Segregated Eatery to be the best.



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Burning books - the artistic way!

Altered books not nearly as fun as altered states, but somewhat less harsh on the body.

OK, it's not just about torching tomes; the obscure art of altered books also involves cutting, painting, writing, pasting, and just about any other modification that can be made to a volume to transform it into something not quite itself.



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File under: abso-fucking-lutely cool

The Rosetta Project. The people of the future won't need computers to decipher our languages, but they will need microscopes, so lets hold off those dark ages for a bit. (The ruling apes of the future will be able to communicate with all of their slaves now.) (From Maud via Max)



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When bad ad ideas go badder
I know Mother's Day is months away, but this may not be around by then.

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Cracked

Think you're smart? Have a go at cracking the code that CIA agents can't get -- and it's on their property. (From BoingBoing)



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It's only a matter of time

Before the Poe Toaster (so clever) gets his ass kicked by some fucked up "spectator". People just can't respect a mystery.



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So what's this all about then, eh? My weirdness bone is aching...

Anyone? (Large Quicktime file. If you're on dial up, you might want to skip this one. If you love muppets, you might not.) (From Incoming Signals)



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That muppet video was beautiful.

Nobody Here

So weird and beautiful... You just have to see it. (From Salt and Ice)



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Viewmaster madness

Handmade Viewmaster reels from great moments in literature. God, I loved Viewmaster as a kid. (From BoingBoing)



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Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side of spam...

The capacity of that odd breed of human to take lemons and make lemonade never ceases to amaze me. (From Incoming Signals)



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Want to ensure the permanence of your thoughts?

Very useful information, should you be planning a long out-of-body experience. (From Incoming Signals)



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We really need to start a ninja cult
Is Dan Brown getting a cut of membership fees?

Secret societies such as the Knights Templar, which features in The Da Vinci Code, are experiencing a huge increase in popularity because of the success of the book. The magazine Freemasonry Today says that membership of these semi-masonic groups has risen by more than 20,000 in the past two years.

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Using books as furniture

I already do this, but none of it LOOKS LIKE furniture. (From BoingBoing)



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A lesson in accuracy

Sloppy typists beware... A typo causes a nukular scare.



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Finally! I can take off this damn tinfoil hat!

Getting your message out there has never been easier.



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If you're wondering what to get a ninja for his upcoming birthday...

I want mine to read "Numb Lock". (I bet I could work an ass groove into it. If only it came in bean bag form... I think that about a lot of things. Toasters. Cars. Books. Fire hydrants. Telephones. Tuesdays. The number six. Wouldn't life just be so much better if things were in bean bag form?) (From BoingBoing)


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$83,000 a year to read books
And she quits?

A woman, looking to do more than sit and read books at her $82,789-a-year job with the State Liquor Authority, has settled her federal court lawsuit against the state and will move to a new job with the state Department of Motor Vehicles.

Patricia Freund, a 25-year state employee, had said her superiors at the SLA sent her to a back room and gave her nothing to do for the past three years after she questioned the practice of state employees attending Gov. George Pataki's annual prayer breakfast.

Prayer breakfast? This story keeps getting weirder.

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Cthulu cereal
Now available in both Original flavour and Non-Euclidean.

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Here's a little something to start your day at work...

And my first day at my new job. I'm itching already.


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Piano man won't sing us a song

This story is so bang on the money you got to wonder if he's faking it. (I did used to work, however, back when I did social work, with a fella with severe autistic tendencies who could barely speak but could sing every Beatles and Rolling Stones song.)


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Too perfect

Okay, I realize it may have been debunked today, but I sent this link out to a few friends with the headline "Too fucking perfect"... A mute piano man identitied to police by a street mime. You couldn't write this shit. I swear this is all a plot to sell movie rights. It's a giant performance art piece.


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A writer's best friend

Have you been crippled with curiosity about the state of the white out industry? Wonder no more! (From Clive)


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Mike Nesmith's MOM invented Liquid Paper? Well, hornswoggle me. I can't wait for that question to come up in trivia so I can wow my friends and crush my enemies.

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Ancient Chinese proverb

Writing fortune cookie fortunes sounds more fun than, well, naming IKEA products or Benjamin Moore paints. Lau on his Wonton career:

These days, he cycles selections from his vast oeuvre in and out of circulation. He is worried that readers will notice that the cookies are in reruns, which might result in Wonton’s losing its edge on the competition. (This is unlikely. Although there are about forty fortune-cookie companies in the United States, few have Wonton’s manufacturing capabilities.) So Lau has decided to bring in new blood. The company will soon advertise for a new fortune writer, and Lau will make the transition to editor. “Maybe when I retire I’ll write again—perhaps a book about writing fortunes,” he said. Returning to form, he summarized the thrust of the book with two simple axioms. “Don’t have too complicated a mind,” he said. “Think in ten-word sentences.”

I bet there'll be stiff competition for this job.

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So sue me, I'm a fucking dweeb...

Um, if anyone out there is rich and wants to make my life, please please please buy me this?

Please?


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I hear ya (I'm a fucking dweeb too), but you'd need a Mellon grant to afford that thing with the price it probably will fetch. A lot cheaper to eBay a Graflex and a conversion kit and make one yourself. It might not be screen used, but it looks exactly the same.

Here's my own saber (snagged the flash for $10!). Not 100% accurate, but close.

Odd books found in a second-hand bookstore
Pretty much what the headline says.

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Great first loins

Er, lines. Sorry. (From Moby)


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Melville junior

Arrr! For younguns who need a visual introduction to the life of the white whale. Also good for teaching first year students. (Thanks Jim)


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Couldn't resist popping in for this one...

Porno magazines rot slower than mainstream rags. This means they will be the last printed matter to decay in the landfills. Archeologists of the future, rejoice! (From BoingBoing)


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When I first read this, I thought it said "pomo" not "porno".

"Porno" is just a pomo spelling of "pomo"...

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That explains why it feels dirty.

Bruce Sterling's honorary degree

Comes with implant that forces all automatic doors to say, "Welcome Doctor Sterling" when he crosses their thresholds. (From BoingBoing)


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The art of the Toastmaster

Butter only goes on one side, you see... That, and: speak up.


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They're taking over... just like in that movie... I mean, those movies

A robot finds Robinson Crusoe mystery treasure... Meanwhile, thousands of miles away it is revealed it's twin unit, Dan Brown, is writing Da Vinci Code III: God's Horseshoe Up My Ass. It's only a matter of time. Soon the Frankenhand will join them and they'll be unstoppable. I, for one, wish to welcome our new robot overlords...


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The quest for cool

Where do cool and art intersect?

Cool is a word that often crops up when describing art or artists. It’s always been a term that has bugged me. The minute something is described as cool, my instincts tell me that it is on the wane. For me, being creative is being prepared to make a fool of myself — in a nutshell, the opposite of cool. In my experience embarrassment is not fatal. Coolness somehow implies that there is a right thing to do, whereas creativity is mistakes.

Right here, baby. They intersect right here. At the corner of George and Murray, oh yeah.


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I'll wait for the paperback
Books bound in human skin.

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Can you fold a piece of paper more than eight times?

Until recently, accepted wisdom was "no". Yet an American schoolgirl, named Britney no less, has folded a piece of paper 12 times for a class assignment, and shown her work in an equation. I'd say that's an A. Hit me, baby, one more time!


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I once spontaneously combusted

It was at a poetry reading, right when they announced the open mic. Luckily, it scared me so much I pissed myself and put it out.


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One person's dream is another's nightmare

Naked woman suddenly drops into apartment through ceiling.


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Shit sells

Crap books make a lot of money. Hm. Kind of makes me feel better. But only kind of... Because then you read it and find out it's actually about shit, not quality. Or quality shit. (From Lit Saloon)


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Potable quotables for $1000, Alex

The silliest quotes from the year past? Oh, you mean in print... My data bank of verbal indiscretions is much more detailed.


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I should really save this for Friday

But I'll forget about it by then. Some Ninja/Pirate silliness.


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Stamp news

The biggest stamp mosaic. What can I add to that?

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I think Apollo really needs to photon torpedo Starbucks

Send in the Cylons. Starbucks has gone mad with power.


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Dude, it's PHOTON torpedo. Now I will have to confiscate your tricorder.

DUDE! I think it's PROTON in Battlestar Galactica! Consider yourself out-nerded!

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I'll admit defeat. And I collected the cards when I was 10. So who was your favorite, Athena or Casseopea?

Poe circus sends in the clowns

I remember the first time I read about this, maybe five or six years ago, I thought, once word gets out, this will turn into a circus. Now the clowns are ruining some goth's party.


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