Yay!

"[From Verona Total Breakdown (Liebestod), a forgotten early Infernokrusher work by Bill "Hoist This Petard" Shakespeare . . .
Ro-Mo. Your windows are still mirrored; taunt me not,But show your colors, dare to challenge me,These lips are two shaped charges, primed and hot,That wait the go-code for delivery.J-Cap. The flag is to the deadly, not the loud,Yet aim as well as posing show in this;The worthy throwdown's always to the proud,And hammer down is how the hard girls kiss.Ro-Mo. My draft is stopped; I struggle toward the clutch.J-Cap. And would a charge of nitrous make thee run?Ro-Mo. Too much; but what else is there but too much?Let me take arms, and elevate the gun.J-Cap.Small arms but hint what demolitions say.Ro-Mo.Then, gunner, gimme one round.J-Cap.On the way."

I'm tempted to make this into a problem set, but it's probably not challenging enough.

That's rather sweet, actually.

A critical edition of the text of "Scooping the Loop Snooper".

Memorizing _Paradise Lost_, to 90%+ accuracy when prompted to go on from a random passage. That's a lot better than I'd have expected possible.

My father's mother, and much of that side of my family, would be among those Indians raised speaking English instead of more-remotely-ancestral languages (in her case, Tamil).

"I knew her work, a little. A few poems in the Paris Review, some elsewhere. And I think the poems were too true, steely odes to single women making a lonely go at living in cities, and so I left them where they were. Maybe one day, when I'm on solid ground, when I am completely surrounded by love at all times, I will feel strong enough to examine that thin line between solitude and loneliness, and how it disappears at 3am, or during firework displays, or when filling the blank that follows "Emergency Contact Name:"."

"Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh"

Things you can (only?) do with Chinese characters.

A new book of poetry coming from Pollitt, hurray!

So, what was Disch's handle on unfogged?

"About science fiction's uncanny oracle, and U.S. politics, and Katrina. With poetry."
But, as you know, you should be reading this blog already.

"The ape believes he's meant for a better place..."

Amusing doggrel about stress.

"The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered // and I am pleased."

Little jokes, buried in prose, explode in the reader's mind like missed margin calls.

I'd link directly to the comic, rather than the blather on this page, but can't figure out how to do so. Very nice.

Barzun on the turn from Romanticism to what would become Modernism, via Baudelaire - at least, in France.

Beautiful, but very sad.

"The Lady's Not For Burning" fanfic (!!) in blank verse (!!!)

Korean poetic form related to haiku, but with more room and internal structure.

My grandfather (and, to a lesser extent, my father) used to quote these all the time...

"they have brought whores for Eleusis" as an expression of the Keynesianism of fools

But --- why are there NO PICTURES? "sybil wantz DIE"