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“The arguments protecting or even championing plagiarism fall before the palpable evidence of originality, modest and grand, ephemeral and enduring, as it has existed in writing everywhere.”

academia plagiarism
8 days ago

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Contrapuntalism

A new site from the creator of Blackwing Pages.

music pencils photography
19 days ago

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Indy serendipity

Only after the fact did we learn that we had met Hal Fryar, Harlow Hickenlooper of Indianapolis children’s television.

Indianapolis television
19 days ago

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Kurt Vonnegut, Manager

Letterhead from Cape Cod Saab dealership, managed by Kurt Vonnegut.

KurtVonnegut paper
19 days ago

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But also across time

Connecting past and present via the Internet: a 1925 photograph as seen in 2012.

Internet past time
20 days ago

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E-mail in the air

On not checking it and not using exclamation points in it.

e-mail punctuation
20 days ago

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Eponym of the day: satyr

The Greeks have nearly swept A.Word.A.Day’s week of eponyms.

Greek names words
20 days ago

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Hi and Lois watch

The wrong-way-window-writing glitch.

comics Hi&Lois
20 days ago

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Arkhonia on the Beach Boys

Arkhonia cares about the Beach Boys’ musical legacy and writes about that legacy at length.

BeachBoys BrianWilson music
20 days ago

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Time-saving formulas

Humanists: if you’re still doing grades by hand, you might want to look into creating a spreadsheet.

teaching
20 days ago

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Eponym of the day: hector

“Hector is a brave and dutiful character, but unfortunately his name is now sullied in the language.”

Greek Homer Iliad names words
20 days ago

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Marjorie Perloff on the “well-crafted” poem

To my mind, such stuff gives poetry a bad name. There’s an awful lot of it around.

poetry
20 days ago

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Blogger, a mess

Google, please be advised that better communication would make it easier to believe (even if mistakenly) that you care about Blogger users.

Blogger
20 days ago

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Nancy is here

Justice, thy name is Nancy. And Sluggo.

comics
24 days ago

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The three sons

From R. Crumb’s Genesis: at least one joke has slipped in.

cartoons RobertCrumb
24 days ago

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A week of eponyms

From A.Word.A.Day

Greek names words
24 days ago

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Overheard

Just saying no.

overheard
24 days ago

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As exams approach

A 1951 Life photograph of a novel way to study.

exams photography
24 days ago

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On Duke Ellington’s birthday

“The popularity of it doesn’t matter, doesn’t mean anything, because when you get into popularity, then you’re talking about money and not music.”

DukeEllington jazz music
24 days ago

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Vegan phở

Recipes from the New York Times.

food
24 days ago

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Orange Crate Art: Rice and beans à la Hannity

Sean Hannity echoes The Grapes of Wrath.

culture food JohnSteinbeck
28 days ago

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Blackwing Pages for the taking

Nobody likes to be used.

Blackwing pencils
28 days ago

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Inappropriate stock photo accompanies news item

“Female healthy lifestyle.”

newspapers photography
28 days ago

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Overheard

“I’m gonna give you three seconds to put that violin down, nice and easy.”

overheard television
28 days ago

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Hi and Lois watch

I made a few improvements in about ten minutes, using the open-source Mac image-editor Seashore.

comics Hi&Lois
4 weeks ago

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Tim Johnson on the line

Tim Johnson (R, Illinois-15), who retires this year, is the subject of a New York Times profile that emphasized above all his habit of telephoning his constituents.

politics telephone
4 weeks ago

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Infinite Jest in the App Store

The App Store is on drugs.

Apple DavidFosterWallace
4 weeks ago

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More imaginary liner notes

My imaginary liner notes for the fifth and sixth 45s in Van Dyke Parks’s singles project are now available for your reading pleasure at Bananastan Records.

music VanDykeParks
4 weeks ago

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