The Best Book on American Poetry Ever From the Public Domain Review, a quaint and curious trip down ephemera lane: Christmas Festive Bonanza Digest How to write a Verbatim poem The Lost Art of Memorizing Poetry | The American Reader Maybe this is why I’m finding NPR’s news hosts’ attempts to emulate chirpy chatter ever more annoying: NPR is …
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Thursday Links
Man binge-watches The Simpsons for over two days while taking LSD Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective The Raven writing gloves Zap your bad habits with Pavlok The Works of William Hazlitt “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in three paintings Stevereads on his favorite SF mass-market paperback covers from the early ’80s
Monday Assorted Links
When Procrastination doesn’t keep me from doing what I should be doing, I fall back on creating a links post. Digitized K-mart in-store background music (1989-1993). As Susie Bright said in her Facebook post, “This is a soundtrack waiting for its porn film.” Pick your guru carefully. 19th-century views of the Year 2000. Alternate Histories has released …
Links: Standing Desks
We had a discussion at work recently about how much we sit, standing desks, treadmill desks, etc. So I did about 90 minutes of searching and came up with the following digest of items that I thought covered the topic fairly well. This will be my starting point if the topic comes up again in …
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Will tablets kill PCs? Daniel Lemire thinks tablets more than satisfy the mainstream (non-techie) user’s needs. Jeff Atwood opines about his spiffy new ultraportable laptop, which is everything he wanted in a laptop 10 years ago. A great animation showing the secret law of page design harmony (scroll down). The oldest self-help book: a 19th-century American …
Temptatious articles to read
This is why the potential is always there for me to get nothing done. Here are some of the top links that caught my eye from today’s Arts & Letters Daily and Marginal Revolution sites. I could have spent a happy hour reading all of them, but I decided to confine them to my Readability …
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The History of Outlining The “Victorian laptop” (hat tip to Taking Note) Straining the soup ever more thinly. Haven’t we said all that there needs to be said about the Pythons? Haven’t they done other work in their long careers? I’d much rather see brand new reissues of the Big Red Book and Brand New …
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One of my favorite writing sites is by England-based sitcom writer James Cary and called, appropriately, “Sitcom Geek”. What I love about his posts are his practical and serious thoughts on the business of conceiving and writing situation- and character-based comedy (as opposed to sketch or standup comedy). Here’s his latest post, echoing the feelings/advice …
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Steve reviews Robert Graves’ The Anger of Achilles, and finds more ways to say that Graves is one can short of a six-pack than I could imagine. Bookshelf Porn: “A collection of all the best bookshelf photos for people who *heart* bookshelves.” The illustrated guide to a PhD. Check out the other articles on his …
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“The truth is dancers and musicians live in two different worlds.” For academic writers, the Rule of 200. Writing 200 words/day is rather like writing for 15 minutes/day — it sets an objective, emotionally neutral goal. Getting that first draft squeezed out is most important; quality can be layered in later. Also, this raises the …
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