Pultizer:
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today. I know exactly none of these people.
Some Thoughts on Poetry:
I recently subscried to the NPR Book Podcast which I enjoyed enormously while waiting in line at the Whole Foods.
This week’s episode had an interview with the poet Edward Hirsch, who had two fabulous things to say about poetry. One was a quote from Robert Frost about the value of carrying a notebook.
“How many times must something happen to you before it occurs to you?”
The second was the Four Subjects of Poetry as developed by the poet William Matthews.
1. I went out into the woods today, and it made me feel, you know, sort of religious.
2. We’re not getting any younger.
3. It sure is cold and lonely (a) without you, honey, or (b) with you, honey.
4. Sadness seems but the other side of the coin of happiness, and vice versa, and in any case the coin is too soon spent, and on what we know not what.
I love that.
Sunday Shards (April 16, 2006):
In the reading queue this week…
*Charlie Chaplin was born today, Easter Sunday, in 1889. He died on Christmas Day, 1977 (via The Writer’s Almanac).
*Artful takedown of Michiko Kakutani in Slate (via TEV).
*The Financial Times analyzes Web 2.0 (via Micropersuasion).
*Why two tier book pricing needs to go (via New Pages).
*Erin McKean was the guest blogger at Powell’s this week, where she had this great essay about the future of dictionaries. I’m a huge fan.
*Merlin’s Mann’s five suugesed Flickr tags. My favorite was #3. ““My Defenseless Child In A Funny Shirt I Made Him Wear.” (via Kottke).
*Valleywag charts what your social network choice says about you.
*I had such fun doing this list that I’m going to write another real soon. Maybe even today.
*Film Festival starts this week. Yay!
Podcast Apologies:
So all sortsa freaky business happening at Odeo and the latest episode of “Your 10 Minute World” wasn’t showing up. Now it’s here. Using this here URL to subscribe
http://odeo.com/channel/54150/rss
in your favorite podcast reader, you should be all set.
A Little Less Blind:
and more tired than angry…
The Squid Knows:
I just make a point of checking the Laughing Squid blog each day because my buddy Scott knows everything interesting happening in San Francisco. This Saturday, tax day is not only Lap POP! (hosted my my friend Min Jung) but another showing of the Life Sized Mousetrap and something called Bunny Jamb I’ve never heard of. How to decide?
Homish Necessities:
My friend Lucia’s list of what a home needs is way spot on. I think mine is a little long on communication devices, a little short of balance. I’m working on that.
Seen on a car outside my hotel…
A bumper sticker, amongst several dozen, that read “Voting is a Witch’s Rite.”
Yes. Yes, it is.
Pallozaing:
Justing sent me this this interview in Chicagoist with Perry Farrell about Lollapalooza (Farrell has a blog on the site which can’t be linked to for some stupid reason) which I’ll be attending this summer in Chicago. Since I’m origjnally from cold climes, Im really looking forward to the misting tents he’s talking about. Oh and the 130 bands on 8 stages doesn’t hurt either.
Vonnegut said this…
While listening to an interview with Kurt Vonnegut on Bookworm this morning, he, in the course of making an unrelated point, sad this. In place of “When the shit hits the fan.”
“When the excrement hits the air conditioner.”
I thought that was brilliant.