When I was an undergraduate student at Rice U., oh, a while ago, I took a class on the British Romantics from one of the old guard of the English Department, Alan Grob. Dr. Grob was a professor in a very classic sense — tweed jackets, bicycle, and all. (Apparently, he’d been in a car […]
Plagiarism is reaching new levels of ridiculous: A romance writer has lifted passages from a Defender article about wild ferrets. The author of the original article has written about the experience for Newsweek. Apparently, bits of the nature writer’s semi-dry description of ferret society have been misappropriated as romantic dialog by Cassie Edwards for her […]
So, about 5 years ago at the Aurora Picture Show, I had the good fortune of seeing a curated screening of heavy metal-related movies, including the infamous Heavy Metal Parking Lot and the magical clip above, which shows Danzig talking about his book collection. Thanks to Youtube, I can now watch this gem over and […]
Kurt Vonnegut is dead. The world feels more boring already.
I read in an introduction he had written to one of his novels an anecdote about how he once, while smoking in a bar, answered an inquiry as to what he was doing with the assertion that he was “committing suicide by cigarette.” In the anecdote, […]
New York magazine has a really great interview with the American poet Frederick Seidel, who manages to somehow be both very masculine and very elegant all at once — the guy owns several Ducatis and is friends with Charlotte Rampling, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Diane Von Furstenberg.
Seidel’s newest collection, Ooga-Booga, juxtaposes images of fabulous luxury with […]