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February 20, 2012

You aren’t what you eat

Amongst all the goodness in the first issue of the New Inquiry magazine, one article in particular stood out – The Resentment Machine, by Freddy De Boer. It is available in full in that link back there, so you should probably read that rather than this, but anyway, it challenged me in all number of ways (I should probably offer some sort of summary here, but even after multiple readings I won’t do it justice and you’d be better off just reading the real thing, or failing that reading what follows in the next paragraph…), but one quote near the end particularly got to me. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 14, 2012

Gone Tomorrow

I love Lambchop and I love pro wrestling. Put the two together and I’m a very happy bunny. The new Lambchop album is wonderful. I’m thinking it might be one of their best, if not their best, but will perhaps calm myself down a little before writing on it. Plus, I have tickets to see them in a few weeks, so it seems to make sense to write something after that. I’m sure I have an awesome pro wrestling post lurking somewhere in my sub-conscious too. But more than likely I’ll just make these promises of awesome post-age only to fail miserably at delivering them. You know the routine. Anyway, enjoy the video. I am Mr Curator rather than Mr Writer today.

February 10, 2012

The Jazz Scene

After a bit of a surge in visitors to the site in the past couple of days I figured I’d scare them off with my real speciality, the filler post. Ah, but what filler today. I thought I’d highlight this collection of photos from William P. Gottlieb, taken in the 1930s and 40s, documenting the great and the good of the jazz world. There appears to be approximately one billion photos in the set, and they are all now in the public domain, so lazy bloggers such as me can use them to embellish their sites and write puff pieces like this. Read the rest of this entry »

February 8, 2012

The New Inquiry Magazine

So, a follow-up to my Longreads love. After mulling over how publishing long essays/articles online could possibly be a sustainable business model/long-term enterprise, one of the best purveyors of said essayage (that’s a word, right?), The New Inquiry, have published the first issue of their new monthly online magazine. At $2/£1.25 an issue I subscribed as I was curious to see how it would look and read, and the Amazon payments mechanism was frighteningly easy. Oh, and it turns out it is excellent. Read the rest of this entry »

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February 3, 2012

Don’t read this, read these

Rather than reading my floundering attempts at bloggery, you should really check out The Electric Typewriter‘s newly collated list of 111 Essential Articles and Essays. They seem to have covered a lot of the better-known essays that are free to access on the world-wide, but there are plenty I haven’t read yet. Read the rest of this entry »

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