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Thursday, August 26, 2004
The Don DeLillo Papers now reside with the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Fans of the great man will drool over the online catalog. (Thanks to the estimable Don DeLillo's America for the news.) Wednesday, August 25, 2004
More BUllSHit # 7,832: Check out this sweet Letter to John Kerry from Veterans on the official Bush-Cheney '04 campaign site. Note the peculiar second sentence, with its implication that some veterans may not have "worn the uniform [sic]" and served the USA. Especially note the ambiguity of the last sentence: "We urge you to condemn the double standard that you and your campaign have But of course, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads are not about Kerry's activities "on return from Vietnam" but rather attacks on his record of military service while serving in Vietnam. Or are we to read this as an affirmation of veterans' rights to express their feelings about Kerry upon their "return from Vietnam"? (A return that happened more than 30 years ago?) What do you expect from these characters: direct factual statements? A bloody shame. I flew British Airways in March to London and back and their service was impeccable; in fact, when a passenger suffered a mild heart attack on the flight to the UK, not long after take-off, the crew and attendants reacted with unforgettable aplomb (the plane was smoothly diverted to Newfoundland and the passenger treated onboard and allowed to disembark). Thursday, August 19, 2004
Nope, haven't read it yet. Given its brevity (and the lousy reviews), I figure I'll whiz through it for free some afternoon in a bookstore aisle. Comments, anyone? In line with my recent plug for Between Cracks, E.C. Adams' book of Philadelphia photographs (which you've all bought by now, right?), here's a link to Passing Through Philadelphia, a website put up by the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. And please, no cracks, between or otherwise, about passing through Philadelphia being the best way to see it, because only I'm allowed to make those jokes. Sunday, August 15, 2004
Some good Sunday morning coverage of the present situation(s) in Iraq, from Scotsman.com (on the Shia uprisings in Najaf) and The Philadelphia Inquirer (on the Sunnis in Ramadi). Thursday, August 12, 2004
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Requiscat in primate. The Empire State Building, in a truly classy move, will dim its lights tonight in tribute, from 9:30 PM to 9:45 PM EST. Friday, August 06, 2004
WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY, ETC: Bafflingly, the White House website reprints the verbatim text of President Bush's spectacular statement yesterday ("Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.") during the signing of the new Defense Appropriations Act. Somebody help me out here with understanding this. Is it because the statements were also videotaped (in footage also made available through the White House), and the administration doesn't want to be caught in an obvious cleansing of the record? The online transcript contains no erratum or addendum to what was publicly stated by the President. AND WEIRDEST OF ALL, in the videotape, Bush is clearly seen to be reading from printed notes, indicating that his comments were in his script, and not some off-the-cuff grammatical flub. Uhm...uh...excuse me while I check the terror alert level. Writer Gloria Emerson, whose 1970s journalistic dispatches from Vietnam for The New York Times remain powerful reading, died in New York City this week. Thursday, August 05, 2004
Bruce Springsteen, "a writer and performer" and, incidentally, a "well-to-do guitar player," op-eds remarkably in today's New York Times (free registration required) about the upcoming Vote for Change tour and its hope "to change the direction of the [US] government and change the current administration come November." Think they'll play the Aladdin casino in Vegas? Wednesday, August 04, 2004
BASICALLY BECAUSE NO ONE ASKED FOR THEM: Here are some photos from my recent Chincoteague vacation. First, the hoofprints of Misty herself, as immortalized in the Main Street sidewalk outside the town movie theater. Then, some shots of actual living wild horses on the Assateague wildlife refuge, including a colt whom I startled from a nap such that he rose to join his mother. (Sorry about that, young fella.) Here are some laughing gulls that may possibly know how to read. A Maryland roadside historic marker. A traffic jam in the bustling downtown streets. Monday, August 02, 2004
It's not exactly a State secret that our nation's bestselling work of paperbound non-fiction is presently available online as a free download. No excuses for not giving it at least a good once-over. Sunday, August 01, 2004
AND WHILE I'M PLUGGING JOURNALISTS let me not neglect to mention a new book of photographs, Between Cracks, by E.C. Adams, currently available for online purchase. Mr. Adams is a longtime friend of this Red Righthander, with his own website permanently enshrined in our Hall of Browseable Fame. In the photo-journalist's own words:
AND NOW, THE HARD UNPLEASANT TRUTH about a guy who often is accused of Communist sympathies, and who, if he continues his fatuous and egomaniacal techniques much longer, is likely to damage leftist activism in the States more than any Republican politician could dream of. I refer of course to Michael Moore, who has been fairly caught faking the headline of an Illinois newspaper in his current film "Fahrenheit 9/11" (yeah, I know, the same movie I urged you all, in rather qualified fashion, to see). Here's a columnist for the newspaper spelling the matter out in detail, such that I have nothing further to add other than my express wish to see Moore get his large ass kicked in front of live television cameras. No, really: how does he think he can keeping doing these things without serving up silver-plattered ammunition for conservatives? Or does he really see no further than whatever cheering crowd is right in front of him? Fucking jerk.... We ought to be paying attention instead to serious journalism (by folks who, you know, get out and actually investigate an event and then report on what they saw), as for example this new coverage in Rolling Stone of the Agu Ghraib prisoner abuses (remember those?), featuring some of the details the Defense Department has been working strongly to keep under wraps. BUSH SUPPORTERS SPEAK OUT: "We are very keen that Bush does not lose the coming elections," write members of the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, in a message sent earlier this year (just after the Madrid train bombings of March 11) to the London newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi. Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker describes the Brigades as "a group claiming affiliation with Al Qaeda." The group further admires Bush's "idiocy and religious fanaticism" for their pro-active effects in the Islamic world. Meanwhile, here are some Commie pinko-symps campaigning right in the heart of America to literally Run Against Bush. |
