TWIB Notes with Marcel Proust
Posted on May 30, 2006 - Filed Under
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WikipediaHere at BMK, we keep our ear to the tracks for interesting, obscure Proust quotes. Sadly, we typically just end up with a lode of dime-a-dozen madeleine recipes around Mother’s Day. So we’re doubly thankful for Seattlest, who digs up the sublime:
We’ve been looking for a quote from a famous literary figure to sum up [...]
Simpsons are Funny … but WHY?
Posted on May 26, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentLeave it to a philosopher to take up the tired yet seemingly tireless cause of explaining jokes. Read Julian Baggini’s debatable ideas* … or just take it from Homer: It’s funny because it’s true!
I agree that the Simpsons is for awesome, but I couldn’t help but be a little amused when Baggini writes:
But what actually [...]
Brilliant!
Posted on May 25, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“A regional advertising campaign touting Omaha as a summer vacation spot will have to wait until after the Fourth of July.” I think I could think of better ways to spend $450,000.
Read More..>>Violent and vulgar, but also a searing anti—abortion anthem by the quintessential punk band: “It’s not an animal / It’s an abortion.”
Posted on May 25, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTop ten conservative rock songs ever!
Read More..>>The Great American Novel
Posted on May 23, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentOpen Source coming strong lately…. Now I see tonight an all-star lineup to discuss (drumroll please) The Great American Novel (c)
If you’ve been wondering what the greatest work of American fiction has been in the last 25 years, wonder no more. The New York Times Book Review has surveyed a wide swath of the [...]
There Once Was A Man From Pawtucket..
Posted on May 22, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentBest Giants-themed Limerick gets 5 tix to see the Cardinals on Tuesday night.
Read More..>>Is This Just Fantasy?
Posted on May 22, 2006 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsComing up on one of my favorite podcasts “Open Source”
56, .406, 755 — baseball’s record hit streak, batting average, and home run total: numbers at the intersection of history, myth, memory and, now, at the heart of a lawsuit between ball players and their fantasy fans. Because from these numbers has grown a side business: [...]
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Posted on May 19, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentDaniel Radosh, responding to Forever Pregnant, and the ensuing kickoffs…
So when it comes to the CDC report, why should you and I be so protective of the feminist message - that women are more than just baby-makers - that we’re willing to risk the health of the babies who are going to be born from [...]
Virtual Reality-Based Community?
Posted on May 18, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentHave you heard of Second Life? I think it’s like Sim City meets Dungeons and Dragons + MySpace all rolled into one. Forget the clowns…bring on the lawyers!!!
…the dispute could test the relevance to virtual worlds of existing laws. “Linden Lab is still obligated to honour real-world contract law and consumer law, even if their [...]
Yakov Smirnoff Sighting
Posted on May 15, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“Comedian Yakov Smirnoff, who earned a master’s degree in positive psychology, was among the approximately 6,000 graduates.”
Read More..>>And Harry Carry apologies for that one time he was sober.
Posted on May 11, 2006 - Filed Under
| 2 Comments“ESPN baseball analyst Rick Sutcliffe apologized Thursday night for a rambling, slurred interview he gave Wednesday during the local television broadcast of the Brewers-Padres game in San Diego.”
Read More..>>Baseball & Books
Posted on May 11, 2006 - Filed Under
| 1 CommentSo I started reading Underworld last week, without any real idea what it is about, on BART going to work. The opening account of Bobby Thompson’s Shot Heard Round the World had me loving the book from the get go. As it happens, I was going to see the A’s that night to scout one [...]
Read More..>>Ghostface Writa
Posted on May 11, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentWho wants up to $8,000? Ghost Writer Needed for Black Fiction:
Serious Ghost Writer Needed
Ghost Writer needed to do a Black Middle Class novel.
Frankly stated, the writer must be able to write in the voice of an African American female. Your race dosen’t matter, but your skill sets do! You must be a reader of Black [...]
$12,000,000 worth of non-guilt
Posted on May 11, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentUniversal music, despite claims of no wrong-doing, has settled with the New York Attorney General to pay $12,000,000 after investigations into their payoyla schemes. Apparently, a number of the people begging for Nick Lachey, Ashlee Simpson, Brian McKnight, Big Tymers, and Lindsay Lohan (among others) were on the take.
In other (presumably lower-stakes) pay-for-play news, Maud [...]
You didn’t think they could hate you
Posted on May 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThere will be a conference to lay some ground rules for how Christians should go about converting people of other/no faiths.
The Vatican and the WCC plan a conference Friday near Rome to start work on the “code of conduct.” Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and representatives of other faiths will be present.
The biggest absence will be evangelicals, [...]
It’s all very involved
Posted on May 10, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentNot sure what it takes to be qualified as a “spokesman” these days:
“This is not the first time he has had a milestone home run,” Blake Rhodes, a Giants spokesman, said of the team’s resident slugger. “So we have taken precautions to make sure everyone’s safety is involved.“
Don’t you feel safer already?
I /read/ the books from here to Albuquerque…
Posted on May 8, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment… to get the Ice Cube scholarship.
Read More..>>Fancy Friends with Fancy Clothes
Posted on May 8, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAt his blog, David Bynre ponders, “If I were to translate the image of Kate Moss snorting up a line into a sculpture, or even a painting, would I owe Ms. Moss some money or permission?… Or would I only owe the photographer who took the tabloid image?” Ahhh…the thought experiments inspired by copyright laws…
Read More..>>Down Goes Chomsky! Down Goes Chomsky!
Posted on May 8, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentA fascinating article about the Brazilian Pirahã people’s language, which has no subordinate clause. “Who cares” you ask?
Whether phonetics, semantics or morphology — what exactly makes up this universal grammar is controversial. At its core, however, is the concept of recursion, which is defined as replication of a structure within its single parts. Without it, [...]
No Pinetar?
Posted on May 8, 2006 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentPage 2 lists the supposed top twenty sports moments on television. An OK list overall, though I would have swapped Cal Ripken out for the more-than-famous George Brett taking Goose Gossage yard only to go INSANE upon being called out for excessive pinetar. I also would have taken Maradonna’s one-on-everybody goal in the Mexico world [...]
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