Saturday, December 28, 2013
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. Mortimer Jerome Adler
Thursday, December 26, 2013
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Henry Miller
The author of Tropic of Cancer was born on this day in 1891.
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of "novel" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional.[1] His most characteristic works of this kind areTropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), and Tropic of Capricorn (1939). He also wrote travel memoirs and essays of literary criticism and analysis.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
100 Books That Should Be Written
Thanks for the link, Charlotte!http://100daystyleradamsmith.tumblr.com/
Monday, December 09, 2013
8 Hilariously Misleading Covers Slapped on Classic Books
There are several of these if you take the time to follow the link at the bottom, it's well-worth it. Thanks for the tip Josh!
This is a Danish edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the novel that inspired the film Blade Runner), and if what we're seeing here is what androids really dream of, it's no wonder humans send out bounty hunters to "retire" those twisted bastards.
In this interpretation, an "electric sheep" is apparently a sheep-faced, human-breasted half-robot with purple wool hair, and judging by the permanently exposed breasts, we can only assume it's some kind of high-tech sex doll. But wait -- is that a dartboard on the back of its head? Are androids such multitaskers that they need the distraction of bar games while doing the ol' hydraulic shuffle? Or maybe ... maybe it's not darts they're "shooting" to "score" in this "game"?
Sunday, December 08, 2013
Excerpts from The Daily Bleed for December 8th
1859 -- Lifelong opium-eater, romantic writer Thomas
De Quincey dies, Lasswade, near Edinburgh, 74.
Author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
1886 -- Radical Mexican muralist Diego Rivera
lives, Guanajuato. Frida's man & Trotsky's host.
1919 -- Jailed at Ellis Island on the 5th, "Made
Anarchists" Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman
appear in federal court before Judge Julius M. Mayer,
who declares that as aliens, they have no constitutional
rights. They remain in detention at Ellis Island.
1943 -- Jim Morrison lives. American rock singer/lyricist
& cult figure since his death. His collections of poetry
include An American Prayer (1970) & The Lords &
The New Creatures (1971).
1980 -- John Lennon permanently loses his voice; killed
by a fan. The former Beatle was shot outside his
apartment building in New York City by Mark David
Chapman, a former psychiatric patient.
"I think of John's death as a war casualty
— it is the war between the sane & the insane."
— Yoko Ono
1982 -- US: Will Norman Mayer stop the MX missile?
Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer,
holds the Washington Monument hostage.
After 10 hours, police kill him.
He had no explosives.
Who then are the terrorists?
Sunday, December 01, 2013
Black Friday: A Shameful Orgy of Materialism for a Morally Bankrupt Nation
I got a kick out of this. Stupid fucking Amerikans. Keep shopping.
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