Howl and Other Poems

I discovered Ginsberg out on iTunes this week. 99 cents for a recording of "America" was not a difficult decision.

Culture consumption log - 1/14/2006

Top ten products under consumption this week:

• Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
  
• Northrop Frye - Anatomy of Criticism
  
• Balzac - The Firm of Nucingen
  
• Gregory McGuire - Wicked
  
• Wayne Booth - The Rhetoric of Fiction
  
• Paul Stiles - Is the American Dream Killing You?
  
• Miyazaki - Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (film)
  
• Kierkegaard- The Sickness unto Death
  
• U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
  
• Joshua Meyrowitz - No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior
  

Paste

I got a copy of Paste today compliments of the Ben Folds Fan Club. Yeah, so, I'm a member of a fan club. Anyway, it's a pretty cool magazine. You should check it out.

Interactive Reading, Early Modern Texts and Hypertext: A Lesson from the Past | Academic Commons

Tatjana Chorney finds similarities in the phenomenology of reading between Renaissance readers with their commonplace books and reading wheels, and Internet savvy hypertext readers who read texts in an appropriative mode. Details at Academic Commons.

Pinsky on Stevens

Robert Pinsky comments on a funereal nature poem by Wallace Stevens in the Washington Post.

The wizard of Jobs

Mike Evangelist peeks behind the curtain to see all the preparation Steve Jobs puts into his famous keynote addresses: Guardian Unlimited .

Stories on Stage

Chicago Public Radio has five seasons worth of real audio archives of fiction read by Chicago actors. Great literary resource.

Retraction: they're not alive, they're dead

slacktivist with an inside the newsroom scoop on what went wrong with the West Virginia coal miner story.

Download details: Works 6.0 Converter for Works and Word Users

Did you ever try to open a Microsoft Works formatted document in some other word processor? Most processors choke and gag and refuse to load it. Even Microsoft Word will shut the door in your face. If you're having such troubles, try downloading the MS Works 6.0 Converter for Works and Word Users.

Oh Six

Is it any surprise that Jim Kunstler is pessimistic about 2006? In a word, no!

Escalation of the Resource Wars

Stirling Newberry at Daily Kos offers some predictions for the new year, none of them pretty.