December 2009
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“We’re willing to ethnically profile, do all sorts extra-judicial...”
– Josh Marshall, TPM
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It's raining outside my window and if I squint in... →
Aramis Fox began here.
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“…I suppose I agree with the philosophers, like Foucault and Badiou, who...”
– Ali Alizadeh, responding to Adam Ford’s question: Why do you write poetry?
More answers will be forthcoming on Adam’s site.
Today in Interesting Wikipedia Pages: More End of...
In case you missed the highlight of the top list, it’s this particular gastropod, Crikey steveirwini. We are not making that up.
pterodactyls:
List of gastropods described in the 2000s
States and territories established in the 2000s
Buildings and structures celebrating the third millennium
21st century conflicts
Astronomical events of the 21st century
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WatchNice pants, Mr. Kachamba.
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WatchDonald Kachamba: Big in Portugal.
And, apparently, he teaches.
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“There’s a Canadian scientist who has modified a football helmet so that the...”
– - Thomas Ligotti
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Roethke-Hugo Exercise II: Again, Bo.
Through crowded red clouds, she ascends, always climbing,
Up razor-sharp waves of rubble and inclines in
Bruised blue slabs of broken-veined rocks -
This is no country to tend her soft flocks.
In barks and howls, her last dogs still sound
Their echoing cries through crowded red clouds.
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She’d rather cure leather, rather cut and then bleed,
Than feel sinewed circles that pull...
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Roethke-Hugo Exercise: Bo Peep.
Through clouds of bitter red, she climbs,
Up shocking waves of sharp inclines,
Down ruined slabs of bruising rock -
No country, here, to tend her flocks.
Those few dogs left still sound
In howling echoes through red clouds.
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She would rather cut the leather
Curving circles at their throats,
Then cured on lines between the trees,
Like hammocks in the tamaracks.
Blue smoke would...