PICASSO and POLITICS:
“Guernica represents something recently demonstrated in this year’s passionate torrent of anti-Bush agitprop, namely art’s ineffectuality in the production of concrete political results.” I wonder if the[…]

END-TIMES WATCH #3:
back in the 19th-century anthropologists and other colonial social scientists made studies of the various native societies and cultures that imperialism was smashing: religions which revolved round animism and the fetish object a[…]

LOST FROG
rainy just emailed me this link – it is self-explanatory (or maybe the other one)[…]

“copyrighting the alphabet will not produce more books“:
i have to keep my eye on WAY more of this stuff if i am ever to get the last section of my book (the big one) (which i have been writing for 14 years now sigh) back in play: if i h[…]

“EWING SAID“:
‘Ewing said the game was designed to undermine the theory there was some shadowy plot behind the assassination: “We believe passionately there was no conspiracy.”‘[…]

END-TIMES WATCH #2:
“[Ewing] insisted he and his team had nothing but respect for Kennedy and for history”[…]

World-historical EuroNoiseniks meet Post-Ballardian Prime-Time Cop Procedural: ok so grissom and the black guy were diggin a PREGNANT* SKELETON out a blob of CONCRETE in the BACK-LOT of a MOTEL (yeah this is a repeat but i missed the first part of it[…]

READING COMIX MAKES YOU DUMM: the disproof is in the discussion surely?
this post-plus-comment at the usually-slightly-up-itself crooked timber is fascinating (abt teaching EngLit via neil gaiman; abt how modern tech-literate popculture-compexity-bo[…]

Are ACADEMIC CONFERENCES the SPORT of THOUGHT?
(viz CONTENT vs STYLE who will WIN??)
i. see you get up and say stuff and (if you don’t overrun yr time hem hem) then field clever questions ii. and some ppl carefully write every word up beforehan[…]

FOOT-IN-DOOR PEER-REVIEW :
andrew wakefield is the doctor who kicked off the debate about the MMR jab – and whether combining the measles mumps and rubella inoculation was possibly responsible for an as-yet unexplained surge in cases of autism[…]