Recent content by Mirabell

So I enjoy Ford's work a lot, expecially Rock Springs, but apparently, he's a capital A Asshat. http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=8348 http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/n_10070/

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmh Babies.

http://io9.com/5812418/why-ketamine-makes-you-feel-really-damn-good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN7uHgir2Dk

Explaining the Kakutani reaction I mean we all knew it, but the study is a good read. http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Berdahl%20JAP%202007.pdf

Yay! http://whereigoofoff.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/interview-strategies/

Happy Birthday! (the last is an artist's rendering of me with my typical bunny ears)

argh. overlooked the proper thread. sorry. here it is http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/showthread.php/1511-Stanis%C5%82aw-Lem

Any of you goin? I used to go, especially to this one which is relatively nearby http://www.hurricane.de/en/ but I feel too old, and the friends who I used to do it with have moved away and my new friends are not up to wading through the mud for three sweaty, alcohol soaked days. Ah, the good...

wildly interesting essay that I just stole off Mark Frauenfelder's Twitter http://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/

a fantastic series of photographs. http://www.jjlevine.ca/switch.html (via this great blog/tumblr http://fyandrogyny.tumblr.com/)

I was talking to a fellow member of the LGBT community who was writing a paper on AIDS and literature, and I spent a lot of today following the trail in my books, and ended up, as usual with Thom Gunn. The collection "The Man WIth Night Sweats" must be among the most moving in modern poetry.

Romanian writer.

GREAT Austrian novelist (1944-2002), whose debut novel, Schöne Tage, translated by Anselm Hollo as Beautiful days, is a canonized classic in Austria and is, or used to be taught in Austrian schools. His debut (1974) is part of a trilogy telling us about the childhood and life of an aspiring...

(stolen from Language Log http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3192)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-wxTW7OCI