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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Marriage, shmarriage
The joy of Obama’s victory has been slightly soured by the votes in California and elsewhere against gay marriages, confirmation – if that were needed – of Obama’s extraordinary ability to draw on a wide variety of constituencies, including many … Continue reading
Posted in homophobia, marriage, religion
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Knowledgeability
A talking head on Fox News informs us that Sarah Palin “lacked a degree of knowledgeability”.
THE GOLDEN FLEECE
The final three sections of my poem sequence The Golden Fleece. The earlier parts can be found here: Jason 1, Medea, Chiron. I suggest you start with those (in that order). HERCULES 1 Apples. Bread. Wine. And the camps … Continue reading
Posted in golden fleece, poem, value
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Stick two
My last post spoke about self-referentiality. Just to show that I’m not entirely foreign to the phenomenon myself, here’s a link to a post about The Scent of Cinnamon and Other Stories on One Story, which first published the title … Continue reading
Stick
There’s an interesting piece on the Guardian books blog today about self-referential humour, triggered by a joke that turns out to be less lavatorial than one might expect. But it’s actually the comments that made me copy the link and post this. One … Continue reading
Posted in language
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Derek Brewer
I see from today’s Independent that Derek Brewer died a couple of weeks ago, coincidentally on my birthday. He’s praised there for being a Chaucerian, as, of course, he was, pre-eminently, but my memories of him come from the summer … Continue reading
Posted in cambridge, death, shakespeare
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Chemical Acorn
I really like this. It comes from a blog called Upset Fruit Bowl, made by David Dingman, “a 19 year old kid living within the soggy depths of Michigan, in the United States.”
Posted in art
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Nid wyf yn…..
Curious? Click here for a great post about translation.
Posted in translation
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Ditching the bitch
This time PD senator Paola “Mrs Doubtfire” Binetti (see two posts down) really does seem to have gone too far. Following her comment that homosexuals couldn’t control their paedophilic instincts and were therefore disqualified from becoming priests, members of her … Continue reading
Posted in binetti, homophobia, italy, politics, vatican
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