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Monthly Archives: February 2007
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Via LanguageHat, Henry Farrell has begun up a wiki portal to academic blogs.
Posted in Blogs and Internet
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Who’s to say?
When I first read about Gordon Bell’s MyLifeBits project (warning: annoying animation on the front page), I was more than a little torqued. MyLifeBits is a lifetime store of everything. It is the fulfillment of Vannevar Bush’s 1945 Memex vision … Continue reading
Posted in Computing and Mathematics, Like Life
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Show Showdown
I am so far behind these guys, I think I’ll drop out of the race now.
Posted in Theater
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Superstar
Via The Morning News, an upload of Todd Haynes’s notorious Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. The video is a little artifacty and it’s of the expected dubious provenance. But the 43-minute film, which tells the story of 1970s soft rock … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Music
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Getting work
Via kottke.org, Jenna Fischer explains her way of success in TV comedy (and plugs NBC’s The Office, gently): So, how did I get The Office? … I developed a relationship with [Allison Jones, casting director] — not because I met … Continue reading
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On difficulty
A post at Via Negativa on John Ashbery and other things points to one by Reginald Shepherd on the degrees of difficulty in poetry, and a lot of the post works for other art forms as well. Semantic difficulty can … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Theater
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Word list
A theater rehearsal, in terms of the words exchanged, is a collision of specialized vocabulary and jargon from several different disciplines; as collaborators, we may stumble towards some level of mutual comprehensibility, but some dark spots of incomprehension remain. Kevin, … Continue reading
Posted in Backstage
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Orson’s Shadow
This imagined reconstruction of the unlikely collaboration of Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier on a 1960 production of Rhinoceros amuses, but fails to excite. To be sure, two egos as large as those of Olivier and Welles have not collided … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Theater
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Reading list
Pitchers and catchers have reported, so it’s a good time to link to Largehearted Boy’s roundup (from three seasons ago) of baseball books. The Robert Coover is on my Read Me shelf at the moment.
Posted in Baseball, Prose Fiction
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Vigils
“Plants grow and die at the same time each year, and that makes them easier to love.” So says one character in Woolly’s current offering by Noah Haidle, a bittersweet fantasy about love, death, and letting go; the play’s theatrical … Continue reading
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Via Lifehacker, Google Maps has added subway station markers for the New York, Washington, and Chicago systems—perhaps more.
Posted in Tools and Technology, Transit in D.C.
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The very gay places
Yum: five interpreters of Billy Strayhorn’s best-known composition, “Lush Life,” an apparently straightforward song of deceptive complexities (emotional and harmonic) that Frank Sinatra never managed to successfully record.
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