(apologies: I've been fighting with Blogger for hours!) Welcome to Blog Party#15! Small group tonight, but that's ok. We went a bit high-brow this time, so a drop in attendance was expected. Actually, it's just about right for a meeting of a book club! How ironic. Well, tonight's party is all about...
Well gang, here it is, in all of it's glory. Or should I say, MOST of it's glory. I know I am a list freak, but it was hard for even me to come up with 101 things that I would like to do (or things that I have procrastinated about for way too long). So far the list is at 89 items. I will update it...
Eerie little poem by Edgar Allan Poe for Friday the 13th. Its "The Haunted Palace" which is featured in The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Poe. In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace- reared its head. In the monarch Thought's...
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. -- Edith Wharton _________________________________________________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most...
Last night I went to see Punchdrunk’s latest production, Masque of the Red Death, at the Battersea Arts Centre. Once the Old Town Hall, more than 100 people have been involved in transforming this entire listed building in south London into a labyrinth of dark Parisian streets, mental asylums,...
Random thoughts on writing After I finished reading the blog of Ink Tank giving valuable tips about better writing, I had an urge to have retrospection. It is tough to have a realistic view on writing as the paradigms are undergoing a constant change. Writing is a craft. One has to work as an...
Random thoughts on writing After I finished reading the blog of Ink Tank giving valuable tips about better writing, I had an urge to have retrospection. It is tough to have a realistic view on writing as the paradigms are undergoing a constant change. Writing is a craft. One has to work as an...
Here is Alan Moore's piece on the Iraq war, complete, uncut, and referenced in the previous post. Here's a joke: What do you call an eight-year-old Iraqi kid with no arms, surviving family members, or unblackened skin below his waist? I don't know. I was shouting at the TV and I didn' t catch his...
Summer Reading (Seventh Grade) Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. Allen, Thomas. George Washington, spymaster : how America outspied the British and won the Revolutionary War. A...
In honor of All Hallow's Eve, here's one of my favorite short stories. THE BLACK CAT by Edgar Allan Poe (1843) FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their...
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...
7 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME: 1) Feels naked if I'm not wearing my earrings. 2) Feels her day is incomplete if I don't have my white chocolate mocha. 3) Am yet to finish The Kite Runner (sorry Kelvin I know it's long overdue) 4) Studies best while listening to jazz music. 5) Am currently craving for ipoh...
Egyptian Pharaoh May Have Been Natural Transsexual Sunday, May 04, 2008 BALTIMORE — Akhenaten wasn't the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine. And he was a bit of an egghead. So concludes a Yale University physician who...
Since Ben had remarks regarding the 1001 Books to read before you die, I thought I'd add my list. It is clear to me that not having read any Dickens or Austen or Joyce has really hurt my numbers. However, I make up a little bit my reading all of the Irving and Winterson and Vonnegut. The ones I...
Disclaimer (ish) Gerard is not evil and would never do any of these things that he did in my dream. i had a dream about Gerard Way last night. it was very interesting. i was in a library and i found a book with an interesting title. i can't remember the title unfortunately. but it was very Edgar...
I recently picked up a used copy of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. As the title would suggest, it features essays on 1,001 books that the editors have chosen as important or essential reading. The book is fundamentally flawed as it features eleven selections by J.M. Coetzee and only two by...
Help me become a better reader. I need to speak more clearly and more loudly, I think. What else?
It was not a midnight dark and dreary. It was our last day and we took a side trip up to Baltimore to visit the gravesite of Edgar Allan Poe.
The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allen Poe "The Raven" Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door....
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