(The title being a take off on this, which I am certain you remember from September 04.) (The subject? Nothing to do with me, hum hum.)

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Baldur Bjarnason: Ebooks and the Senses. I think that ebooks will take over the publishing industry due to their economic benefits. That said, there will be demand for certain books in print format because the benefits to the reading experience are unmatched. The book’s value as a memento comes at a distant, but still important, second place.

Doesn’t anybody love the feel of a book anymore? Read the rest of this entry »

Christopher Locke has written a bloody book, you fools, go over to Mystic Bourgeoisie and read the damn thing while you still can for free.

There isn’t a goddamn thing we disagree upon, just, the man is a better writer than me. I?

See? Read the rest of this entry »

—the mandate of clarity requires me to ask: to what state of affairs do we expect to recover? If the answer is a return to an economy based on building ever more suburban sprawl, on credit card over-spending, on routine securitized debt shenanigans in banking, and on consistently lying to ourselves about what reality demands of us, then we are a mortally deluded nation. We’re done with that, we’re beyond that now, we’ve crossed the frontier and left that all behind, and we’d better get our heads straight about it.  Forget About Recovery; Clusterfuck Nation

Is he or isn’t he? One thing is certain, Kunstler can turn a phrase on a dime, or something even smaller, neater. I dare not, as a more vague, less testosterone-driven, woman, comment on the blog itself. Read the rest of this entry »

I received a pretty email this morning from the pretty Persimmon Tree, An Online Magazine of the Arts By Women Over Sixty, and as those of you who have paid attention know (and there will be a quiz) I more or less am a woman over, gulp, sixty.

This presents a problem. Read the rest of this entry »