My various mini clips (videos) of West Texas
(several new ones posted, starring Charlie Angell)
For Literal Magazine Blog, Rose Mary Salum interviews Yrs Truly about my translation of Francisco I. Madero's secret book of 1911. I'll be reading from and discussing this book in San Miguel de Allende for PEN / Sol Literary Magazine on February 22nd. More info about that event here.
Speaking of San Miguel de Allende, I'll be at the writer's conference the weekend of February 18 and 19 (with Margaret Atwood, Joy Harjo, Elena Poniatowska, Araceli Ardón, Michael K. Schuessler, and many more) and then teaching a two day Techniques of Fiction workshop February 20 and 21. More info here.
Watch the Future According to Corning Glass, the upstate NY glass co. Bizarrely but crisply narrated by a British actor (uh daye en tha fyu-cha)
Oh, you thought you were eating honey? Think again (ewww).
The Author's Guild Says Publishing's Eco-System on the Brink (Oh well!)
Lyn Buchanan sees a lot, tells a lot (seriously good interview)
Listen in to Margaret Dulaney's Listen Well
Eduardo Jimenez Mayo (are we cousins? could be!) and Chris N. Brown, editors of Three Messages and a Warning guest-blogging at Large-hearted Boy
P.S. My translation of Agustin Cadena's short story "Murrillo Park," in this collection, and I blogged for Large-hearted boy myself back in 2009. It was a most interesting musical exercise.
Texas State Drought Monitor Map
(ouch)
Photos of the Egyptian house on Casa Piedra Road (near Presidio TX)
P.S. You can really surf around in there, quite interesting. I like the star-gazing platform.
Newt Gingrich, Spicey Dude! Courtesy of Ken Ackerman's Viral History blog
David Abram on Storytelling and Wonder: On the Rejuvenation of Oral Culture
The Flower Girls: Mennonites in Mexico
Berlinica is now in the e-book game, check out their latest iBook
P.S. Read founder Eva Schweitzer's guest-blog post for Madam Mayo here.
Burro Halls Posts Even More More Pug Pix!
(It has yet to top this one, however).
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Monday, February 06, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Links Noted: Yayoi Kusama, Kevin Kelly, Thumb Thing, Sam Quinones, Ken Ackerman, Joy of Books, Ken Gordon
The World According to Yayoi Kusama(The Financial Times)
A very unusual elderly artist whose polkadotted pumpkins fetch the price of a ski condo.
The Art of Endless Upgrades
(Kevin Kelly's kk.org The Technium blog)
I was thinking just the same thing the other day when I had to upgrade my operating system for the second time in a year.
(KK's latest book, What Technology Wants, is on my Top 10 Books Read 2011)
The greatest pug picture ever
(Burro Hall)
By someone who has a highly strange sense of humor.
The Thumb Thing
The Spoonsisters
(Did they just come up with this in the 21st century? I think I need one of these.)
Sam Quinones' True Tales
Cool, generous, amazing, engaging, and frequently updated.
Viral History
A blog hosted by historian Ken Ackerman
Highly recommended. Sign up for the free newsletter.
The Joy of Books Video
Yikes, 2 million plus views already!
People Who Claim to Communicate / Have Communicated with Disembodied Consciousnesses
My updated list for surfers in the more esoteric waters. (Apropos of my translation of Francisco I. Madero's Spiritist Manual of 1911. Stay away from those Ouija boards...)
CleanSlateNow.org
Hopping freaked about about that 2010 Supreme Court decision, Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission? Ken Gordon is doing something about it and so can you.
More anon.
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Mexico City Miscellanea: Links Apropos of an Ongoing Conversation
A most fascinating conversation this morning in Mexico City, apropos of which, this batch of links (some for me, some for my friend, and all for you):Agustín Cadena "Por qué leo"
Brief, brilliant. I wish people who didn't read books would at least read this one page (ish) essay. Then they'd read books. And then they'd be happier. (It's in Spanish. I'm almost finished translating it into English.)
Those marvelous marbled papers from etsy:
My Marbled Papers
Marbled Goods
Steve Jobs' TED video of his Stanford University Commencement Speech
From the University of Chicago President's Office webpage biography of Robert Maynard Hutchins:
"Hutchins was a strong advocate of academic freedom, and as always refused to compromise his principles. Faced with charges in 1935 by drugstore magnate Charles Walgreen that his niece had been indoctrinated with communist ideas at the University, Hutchins stood behind his faculty and their right to teach and believe as they wished, insisting that communism could not withstand the scrutiny of public analysis and debate. He later became friends with Walgreen and convinced him to fund a series of lectures on democracy."
According to Hutchins in The University of Utopia, "The object of the educational system, taken as a whole, is not to produce hands for industry or to teach the young how to make a living. It is to produce responsible citizens".
Quantifying an Aesthetic Form Preference in a Utility Function
Quantifying Happiness
Quantifying Rotation-Induced Illness in Squirrel Monkeys
Misery, Thy Name is Rumsfeld's Vacation Home
The Campaign for the IMF
People, get a clue.
Robert Darnton's new The Case for Books: Past, Present and Future
And last but not least, the podcast of my book presentation in Mexico City last week is now on-line. With Javier García Diego, Carlos González Manterola, Carlos Pascual, and Eduardo Turrent (En español.)
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