Feeling sick after reading this Guardian article about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The article ostensibly focuses on the nine British nationals imprisoned there, who, it seems, may now be spared the tender mercies of U.S. military tribunals, if only so Tony Blair can tell the folks back home he’s not a complete Bush toady. But the manner in which…
And then a guy from a moving company who’s named David Box.
Nicola was on vacation, so I had my hair cut by someone named Caprice.
I like Kasey’s idea of “unassimilability,” which is indeed different than the somewhat simplistic version of his position that I gave yesterday. The example from Robert Sidney was a striking one, one that helps explain the interest that Susan Howe and writers who have followed her have had in original historical documents, and in reproducing not just the content but…
The Mercury News reports that to email the White House you now have to first go through a series of menus, the first of which asks you whether you want to send a “supporting comment” or “differing opinion.” The second asks you whether you are a “loyal patriot” or an “enemy combatant.”
Brian Kim Stefans asked for more on Harryette Mullen’s take on Ron Silliman’s “have their stories told” quote. I’ve found this bit from a Mullen interview with Daniel Kane: Ron Silliman did us all a favor when he articulated what I consider a productive tension between content and form, between identity and innovation in contemporary poetry. As much as I…
Now I want a Reuben sandwich for lunch.
Why do Star Trek and like shows think it’s more futuristic and official-sounding to have a computer say “affirmative” and “negative”?
Some good comments from BKS on my post on Asian American poetry yesterday.
Monkey’s pulling a Free Space Comix.