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Comment on A DIRGE ABOUT A ROCK AND HARD PLACE by deborah Mattingly conner

deborah Mattingly conner — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 16:08:38 +0000

some of this article was borrowed from my Clarisa blog.
https://clarissalovelace.blogspot.com/
But anything to get people reading, I suppose.

Comment on SKINNING CATS & LEOPARD SKIN PILLBOX HATS by DEBORAH DOBBS

DEBORAH DOBBS — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:41:56 +0000

THE LADY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE THREE WOMEN ON THE RIVERBOAT IS MY GRANDMOTHER ETHEL HAY GRANDMA WAS FOR WOMEN’S SUFFERAGE AND DID AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK TWAIN

Comment on rolls royce: theory of the rolling class by Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:45:06 +0000

true! bellow to his credit had a sense of timing and sniffing out appealing contexts- what he did with it and how he went about it can be another instance of long form journalism groping to find itself in novel form.

Comment on rolls royce: theory of the rolling class by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 02:55:41 +0000

Here’s a quote about John D. Macdonald that I often see bouncing around the web (I hesitate to quote from Wikipeida, which we all know is generally stuff we can wipe our asses with, but this seems legit). “Macdonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only Macdonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human heart chap, so guess who wears the top grade laurels?” That’s from Kingsley Amis.
http://postmoderndeconstructionmadhouse.blogspot.com/2015/01/john-d-macdonald-look-at-some-aspects.html#.VNHn89L

Comment on yakety yak: mediated by known known’s by Bigstar

Bigstar — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:50:24 +0000

Thanks for sharing the images and articles. I like Walter Benjamin’s “mediated by images” the best.

Comment on malraux: thundering cliches on the trail of Eternity by Derek Allan

Derek Allan — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:20:14 +0000

Yes. But that is largely because uni courses in aesthetics (aka philosophy of art) are so inflexible. They are oriented towards certain traditional ideas and explanations (Kant, Hume, beauty, taste, etc, etc). So anything radically new – and Malraux is radically new (still…) – struggles to get a hearing. A great pity, as I say. He is an exciting, profound, and highly enlightening thinker. Sooner or later aesthetics is going to have to come to terms with him.As things stand, philosophers of art just try to pretend he doesn’t exist….

Comment on a-maze-ing: of minotaurs and men by darius

darius — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:52:52 +0000

hey hey dave..
i have seen the maze.. BUT would be interested in being able to call.. and make a daytime visit? is this still possible..? i have searched and found no info ?? any leads..? thanks D

Comment on aware and beware: the amateur guru by Richard Friff

Richard Friff — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:16:29 +0000

From the same small Indiana town that then Michael Shoemaker came from. He was known as a handsome flake in high school even then. Was in Bloomington Indiana when he was building his ashram. It took awhile, but his flakiness and piracy was eventually revealed, hence his escape elsewhere.

Sad that this was more commonplace then than now – or is it?

Sad those that get duped.

Comment on the secret agent: bumblers by Greg Roberts

Greg Roberts — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:32:26 +0000

Jon is right. Häyhänen turned himself in to an “embassy official” (aka CIA agent working out of the American Embassy in Paris). The agent had been working on securing this defection for quite awhile. When Häyhänen finally came in, the official took 20 pages of notes, arranged his flight and flew back to the US with him on a commercial flight. On that flight, Häyhänen started to have second thoughts, so the agent had to solicit the help of one of the pilots to secure him with belts to his seat. Upon the arrival in the US, the FBI met him at the plane to promptly take full credit! How do I know this? John Roberts, the CIA agent, was my father!

Comment on A KINDER & GENTLER NATION? by Jeffrey Burman

Jeffrey Burman — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 15:08:45 +0000

May I have permission to reprint the Gish photo on the ice floe? It would be for CineMontage, which is a published by the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Local 700 of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees. It’s a bi-monthly and a not-for-profit. We print about 6500 copies per issue.

best,

Jeff Burman