Saturday, October 30, 2004
Objets trouves
I found this amazing thing: FOUND Magazine, where notes, photos, and other things that people find end up. Some of the items are funny, or disturbing, or both. While I find this fairly fascinating, I think the ethics are questionable. How awful would it be to have a note you wrote in a fit of anger show up on the Internet? Especially if you had decided against sending it and crumpled it up and thrown it away--only to have it blow out of the trash and end up on the shoe of some stranger who submits it to FOUND.
As for me, I just hope those affirmation tapes I made myself in my early 20s never turn up in a thrift store.
I found this amazing thing: FOUND Magazine, where notes, photos, and other things that people find end up. Some of the items are funny, or disturbing, or both. While I find this fairly fascinating, I think the ethics are questionable. How awful would it be to have a note you wrote in a fit of anger show up on the Internet? Especially if you had decided against sending it and crumpled it up and thrown it away--only to have it blow out of the trash and end up on the shoe of some stranger who submits it to FOUND.
As for me, I just hope those affirmation tapes I made myself in my early 20s never turn up in a thrift store.
Vintage Swag
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Thursday, October 28, 2004
Oh wow.
That's all I can say about The Paperback Revolution
That's all I can say about The Paperback Revolution
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
On a roll
No, not me. Michael McGrorty at Library Dust has two amazing posts today.
No, not me. Michael McGrorty at Library Dust has two amazing posts today.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
A gentle madness
The guy who writes as Thomas H. Benton talks about his own private library. Read some of his archives as well. I read the "fat professor" essay when it was published in the Chronicle a couple of months ago, so I recognized his name this time.
Professor Benton, whoever he really is, should write a novel. Wouldn't a writer of his talent do a good job on the classic novel of academe? Straight Man would be a forgotten weekend's reading in the face of it. Wonder Boys... well, Wonder Boys would still be Wonder Boys, but Moo might suffer some embarrassment.
The guy who writes as Thomas H. Benton talks about his own private library. Read some of his archives as well. I read the "fat professor" essay when it was published in the Chronicle a couple of months ago, so I recognized his name this time.
Professor Benton, whoever he really is, should write a novel. Wouldn't a writer of his talent do a good job on the classic novel of academe? Straight Man would be a forgotten weekend's reading in the face of it. Wonder Boys... well, Wonder Boys would still be Wonder Boys, but Moo might suffer some embarrassment.