// somedays i fantasize that i’m a reviewer for the new york review of books… all day long i read engaging books and write elaborate book reviews… and then i wake up and realize most people don’t read engaging books… nor literary criticism… i’m such an anachronism.
Month: January 2009
From AdAge.com: Blog more. Twitter hurt some of the blogging for awhile but it’s meant to complement blogging, not replace it (for most). Get my blog off a TypePad template and start diving into the advanced features. Facebook Connect, here we come. Peruse less e-mail and unsubscribe from anything that doesn’t make a difference in my day. Pick up the phone more. It’s still one of the best social-networking tools. »read more
“Here’s a shocker: The one-night stand may be being replaced by long-term monogamous relationships when it comes to sex at academic conferences.” » read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy6Omz1bDPg
Just because I can’t get enough of Jackson Pollock or Ed Harris.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
A lot of good links, but it might cause you to use your old bean to read and digest the discussion.
Blogs survive as scavengers
News-gathering is expensive. (Read previous posts on this theme here (The (read) sky (between) is (the) falling (lines)) and here (Pornographers don’t sell pornography).) That’s why I present this from Simon Dumenco for AdAge.com:
“unlike Salon, which… pays for its content, HuffPo [HuffingtonPost] has an ethically questionable content-generation scheme: It doesn’t pay most of its bloggers at all. Worse, it sometimes even lifts content wholesale from other sites that do pay for their own content…” (http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=133541)
‘Please know I love especially you, how every morning you turn over/ the languorous earth,…’
browsing through a copy of The American Poetry Review and Poetry (both arrived yesterday) while drinking a big cup coffee.
just finished watching a couple episodes of Marty Stouffer’s Wild America with the kidlingers
In the company of…
It is amusing to find lists of books that include a title (or titles) that I helped bring to the reading audience. This book list (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1852804) includes titles by C.S. Lewis, Ayn Rand, Chaim Potok and one of the books I published in the last few years. The company a book keeps on an individual reader’s bookshelf is very educational.
Book blogs are the enemy of reading. I discovered several such fascinating blogs this year and spent hours enamored of reading, listing the books I wanted to read, and reading others’ lists. Imagine my surprise when I realized that I had frittered away precious reading time staring at a computer screen. Apparently I was getting all the warm, fuzzy, readerly feelings without the commitment of turning pages. Sad.
Coffeehouse Junkie 