in our thoughts lately

An old Language Log post (re the great gay sheep "story") had this great quotation from Harry Frankfurt's Bullshit : What ...

Aloha no!

TAR ART RAT talks back to our next Prez. (Luckily I was not on this mailing list.)

Bloggrrrrrrrrr

Back in the dawn of time a young writer started a blog under the pseudonym Mithridates. I actually know who he is (we had already exchanged ...

big girl's blouse

(thinking of writing apologetic e-mail re still unfinished review, along the lines of 'sorry to be such a big girl's blouse', I ...

how did we get here from there?

A lthough Albert Camus died before baby boomers took charge of the world and placed their redoubtable imprimatur on the political scene, he ...

Softer World 2

The Softer World interview is now online here . We talk about suicide, languages, games, a few other things.

don't look now

XIII. The work is the death mask of its conception. Walter Benjamin on writing, from Marginal Revolution