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Ray Davis@pseudopodium.bsky.social |
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Free-range essayist & online publisher at www.pseudopodium.org/
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"How hard I found it to fit the name 'robin' to the suburban impostor, the gross fowl, with its untidy dull-red livery and the revolting gusto it showed when consuming long, sad, passive worms!"
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The very rightest kind.
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Lest we shirkers forget: drew AND WROTE a daily webcomic for six years. "Narbonic" had the most reliably funny & satisfyingly structured sequential daily comic script I've ever read.
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This could be YOU
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The German-sounding name wasn't his only wartime trouble:
www.pseudopodium.org/ht-20111222....
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(Where I go faster back to is Sextus Propertius.)
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And you know what they say about the longest way round....
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Don't forget your French letter; you never know when a jolly medico might need it.
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They always made me feel so safe -- like I was living in the right place and time, after all.
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Props for the alt-text.
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Still & forever my model for how French should be spoken, as Bruno S. is for German.
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Upstart.
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Once the MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN writers realized what a great actor they had, he basically walked away with the show. Sadly, he never got to stretch a role so far again.
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Still heartbroken over their eliminating the chapbook section.
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It looks like a good time but I wish they'd titled it "Gonzaga!".
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I expect the deer would be pleased with it as well. Our local suburban deer are more brazen, but even they seem intimidated by the wild turkey packs.
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Lacking such souvenirs, my Bloomsdays must make do with the Dubliners' singably truncated rendition.
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Becky Ebenkamp's WFMU show convinced me that the Cattanooga Cats were legit competition. Michael Lloyd could really bring home the bubblegum.
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I've rewatched "Cat People" as often as I've rewatched any movie this side of "His Girl Friday" but couldn't say it ever made me comfortable. It's more relaxing to settle into the unconflicted misanthropy of (for example) Romero's first zombie movies, or "Re-Animator".
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It was better than I expected but my expectations weren't high.
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Today is the 6th anniversary of the publication of Round About Town which obviously ought to be a national holiday. Why not celebrate anyway by buying a copy from
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colinsackett.co.uk/roundaboutto...
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Dang, and here I was hoping you were one acquaintance who had access to the Sunday Timeses of December 1955.
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In the Times, saucy Graham Greene promoted Lolita as one of his favorite three books read in 1955, but I have not yet been able to learn the titles of the other two.
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Since people tend to overweight their most recent enthusiasms, how about restricting it to 2009? Lists will still diverge wildly from ones made 50 years hence (not that I'll know) but at least be less predictable than the 2020s entries.
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Lindsay Anderson's "if..." (1968) was Malcolm McDowell's first movie but also notable for treating a gay teenage couple as equals alongside a hetero teenage couple, complete with awesome falling-in-love scene.
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I rather like this, Doctor Fell.
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Terry Bisson's voice:
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After this massed Chorale of Myselves, what Benediction?
www.eudaemonist.com/9ii2024/
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I haven't yet encountered Jackson's book -- appreciate the pointer!
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@davidcollard.bsky.social , you might enjoy this piece by one of my favorite contemporary essayists, Roger Gathmann:
limitedinc.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-da...
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The only great American prose writer to ever improv an onscreen explanation of a Hope & Crosby movie. Beat THAT, Hemingway!
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Bon choix.
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The return of 64 Quartets, after over two years. Part One of Quartet No. 8, Four Tops. Including the histories of Detroit, Berry Gordy, Motown, Billy Eckstine, Holland-Dozier-Holland, and of course, the Tops. 64quartets.wordpress.com/2024/01/18/8...
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They were always around, we just used to know better than to listen to them.
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In a decent world Texas & Kentucky flags would be at half-mast.
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And tying your list into a neat circle, dearly beloved & keenly missed Terry Bisson worked on Peter Coyote's book:
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Gopnik?
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
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"2023 already HAD boredom!"
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Ronald Johnson might be a bit too spot-on.
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Only if you enjoy reading Nabokov, especially in playful mode. (I do at Pale Fire length but not at Ada length.) But that would be true even if no one explained the concept, wouldn't it?
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You're welcome! (The category includes one of my favorite 20th century novels, John Crowley's "Engine Summer".)
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I remain astounded by the consistent sublimity of this Shangri-Las collection. One of my favorite CDs:
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I haven't read any papers devoted to Cosy [stet] Catastrophe but I know they exist -- as well they should! John Clute classifies it as a subset of science fiction pastoral, which is fair enough.
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And frivolously as well.
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To be fair, they did X it out on the sign.
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For me the nearest contender would be Neil Young's TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT, with John Cale's SLOW DAZZLE bubbling foully up from under. Patti meant most to me by a long way & for a long time, though.
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@mjohnharrison.bsky.social 's list at birdxite reminded me that I've read WATT more often than THE GIFT. Index breva, vita longa.
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10 favo(u)rite novels with no repeat authors. Ulysses Villette Mansfield Park L'Éducation sentimentale Dhalgren The Female Man The Glass Key The Course of the Heart Those Who Walk Away The Gift Bonus Not-Jean-Brodie pick: The Comforters
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It sounded like a Wodehouse title, started like cruel Waugh-ish satire, & then built into something much stranger. I can't guess the author's intentions but it was a memorable experience.
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