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[…]

LOVELY VIEW:
the dying sun is staining the little rococo tower pink, but [office co-worker E] cannot see it properly as her window is still yucky and smeary from the tropical plant that used to stand against it until her predecessor left
as an art[…]

On the last chapter of Vernon God Little. Yes or no? See a similar issue I had last year about a film for potential clues to this question. You will need to read the much more entertaining than I expected* book to make up your own mind about the answ[…]

ROBOT ART 10 – NON-ROBOT ART nil:
To: Mark [mark@xxx.co.uk]From: Imperialism P. Brotherhood [capitalizes@okfa.hu] Subject: I’ve heard a lot about you
Hello, playmates! :) Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenienc[…]

INVENT TO PREVAIL: aka the Lemony Snicket’s: A Series of Unfortunate Events video game, out for GameCube on 26 November. However there’s a distinct lack of any reviews or further information apart from the fact that it’s produced by[…]

My German Poem
This is offered
i) In a spirit of vague solidarity with the Save The Jolly German campaign.
ii) As an example of the uselessness of our educational system/my brain, it being all I can remember from my German GCSE (an A grade at that!).[…]

Platform by Michel Houellebecq
He seems to have become a fashionable writer, but I hadn’t read him before this. I didn’t like it. He’s a clever man, and he expresses his ideas with clarity and force – but he does so by creatin[…]

I went shopping at the new flagship H&M at Yonge/Dundas sqaure today, and they were selling mens underwear, in the exact pattern as one of Sol LeWitt’s Star Wall Drawings–the five pointed ones, not the six or seven pointed ones. ( ex[…]

I went to a book launch yesterday – having never been to one before this was pretty exciting. I am sure it was fairly typical of book launches in most ways – snacks, red wine, milling intellectuals, good company, ginormous hats. There was[…]

Camille Claudel
I seem to be engaged in a series of appreciations of undervalued artists from a century or so back here (see Bartholdi and af Klint pieces below). I’ll stop after this one, but I do want to mention someone who I think was a grea[…]