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Benjamin Parzybok — January 28th, 2010 — And so it is., authors
It seems like a generation of heroes are on the move this week. Howard Zinn and now JD Salinger. Ah – on the same, sad day – Jan 27. You’ll be missed.
I really enjoyed this letter from JD Salinger regarding the denial of movie rights for Catcher in the Rye. via Letters of Note. You cannot say the man did not care about his characters.
“Not to mention, God help us all, the immeasurably risky business of using actors.”
Benjamin Parzybok — July 28th, 2009 — And so it is., civilization, technology is so awesome, the future
There’s an excellent post over at Fake Steve Jobs about what, I expect, we all consciously or instinctively know about our culture right now. Fake Steve’s rant is inspired by this great comparison of the fears of Aldous Huxley vs George Orwell in comic form, the words of which were taken from the book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Stuart McMillen, which will definitely be going on my must-read list.
Brave New World is still one of the most amazing books I’ve ever read.
I recently finished Feed by M.T. Anderson, which was an incredibly adept, modern take on Brave New World and highly recommended.
Now then, I’m off to play Risk on my iPhone. And did I mention it’s efffking hot here?
WTF? I live in Portland! The city will drown in a sea of heat wave.
Benjamin Parzybok — April 7th, 2009 — And so it is.
I love how in this article, about the sad event that an extremely rare shark (only 41 ever spotted in the world) was caught, cooked up and eaten by locals, they included how the shark was prepared: Sauteed in coconut milk!
Mmmmm, Sounds delicious.
As an after-dinner entertainment/repentance, they all wailed and beat themselves with chains.
Benjamin Parzybok — March 4th, 2009 — And so it is.
via Boing Boing
It’s been a little crazy around here lately, and when I showed this to Laura, she said this was exactly how she felt.
I’m the one in the back.
Benjamin Parzybok — January 29th, 2009 — And so it is., serendipity
Or possibly: Green for Fort Beer
Take your meaning however you find most appropriate at time of reading. Most probably your fortune is being told right here, right now, in the picture below.
Pic: A co-worker pulled out an impromptu free-style game of scrabble at work today while I was reading the paper. This obviously calls for the creation of a Serendipity category around here. Cheers!
Now, off to find my neti pot since it sounds like you folks on the internets have some kind of cold/sinus infection and now my nasal passages are having a hypochondriacical reaction to it.
Benjamin Parzybok — September 12th, 2008 — And so it is.
Where did all the GBP machines go? Many are now on there way to a better fate than our basement.
We’ve found a very nice home for about 4 of our Gumball Poetry machines, as we slowly retire the project.
Lex – who will be turning the project into Portland Poetry News and will be running a newspaper(!) out of 2″ capsules! Awesome.
URL to follow when I have one.
Also, Small Beer Press has a retired Gumball Poetry machine in Northampton, and when they ring me back, the Capsule Studio and Gallery will also get one.
