As Mr. Tiffany has suggested, it’s time to break out the champagne. Season 2 of Twin Peaks is finally hitting DVD.
Year / 2006
Can I Be Laureate Now?
The blog 3x3x3 sets the following criteria:
Pick 3 stories from Google News. Using only words that occur in the first few paragraphs of each story, make a poem with 3 stanzas, 3 lines each, no more than 60 characters per line. The 3-word title should use a word from each story. Be sure to include links to your 3 stories after the poem.
Okay, I’m game.
Prohibiting Crocodile Sex
Freshening up, young man snacking on a crocodile penis, protracted
Spiders and locusts, belching
Bite on his ear
Influence the first brasserie, artery-clogging
Unanimously approved the ban
An additional 12 months because it may take more time
Any sex between is a felony
Consensual? The first time with two, prosecuted under the law
Preferential treatment? Indicted
Sources:
Guardian: Where to next after a light snack of crocodile penis?
USA Today: New York becomes first city to ban trans fats.
Boston Herald: Correction officers indicted on charges they had sex with inmates.
Next Up: How to Staple Your Fingers to the Keyboard
As someone who is now in the brain-eviscerating (but fun!) throes of a first draft, Miss Ribon is quite correct.
The “I’m a Cranky Bastard” Roundup
- Why the war on endnotes? Personally, I find it extremely valuable to see where an author, fiction or nonfiction, culled his influences. (In fact, this issue came up recently in a Segundo interview that will be released later this month. The author was asked if another author had been particularly influential. As it turns out, they were both residing in the same building.)
- Douglas Coupland is now shilling for BlackBerry.
- Trouble in Edinburgh?
- Mr. Asher talks with Susan Winters Smith.
- Marilynne Robinson is offering tips to prisoners. Under the pretence of a fiction workshop, Robinson has been serving up cake recipes with unusual ingredients that should effectively elude X-rays.
- The Australian continues the tedious debate on litblogs vs. mainstream media. It gets many things wrong, but among the more preposterous claims is the idea that Critical Mass emerged because of the Litblog Co-Op. I know from talking with John Freeman that this was not the case at all and that he simply wanted to give the NBCC an online presence. Would it have killed Genevieve Tucker to get some actual quotes instead of speculating as she went along? (Oh wait! That would involve actual journalism!) The problem with Tucker’s article is that she insists upon a Manichean view of the literary critical world, when it is a far more complex tableau, often with considerable overlap.
- :A board game from 1825! (via Weekend Stubble)
- I’m unaware of the Volkswagen commercials because I don’t watch TV, but Scott gives me another reason not to.
- The complete Ray Harryhausen creature list.
- Grow a spine, Gwyneth.
- Far less ho-hum year-end book lists can be found at the TLS.
- Pete Anderson is composing clerihews.
Prof FuryGorjus takes in The Hold Steady. Yes, they are that good live.- ShoStoWriMo?
- Greg Johnson reviews Robert Sheckley’s Mindswap.
- Here’s something new: a film criticism blog-a-thon. (via The Quiet Bubble)
- NYRB goes blogging.
- Novelists? In Houston?
- I concur with Mark Boyer.
- The Corsair on Jay McInerney. I agree. They really don’t make asshats this size at the milliner’s.