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Entries from July 20, 2008 - July 26, 2008

Thursday
Jul242008

Tidbits #4

Wednesday
Jul232008

Don't Forget

Tonight is an Openned Night with an excellent line up: Sascha Akhtar Sean Bonney Frances Kruk Scott Thurston John Wilkinson And others. Don't miss it. Check the Nights page for directions. Admission is free.

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Tuesday
Jul222008

Short Bursts #1

'The good news about blogging is that it's extraneous to what really matters: poems. We move through phases of conceptual and complex thought, and oftentimes poems are products of complexes. Sometimes the conceptual (theoretical? is theory always conceptual?) gets in the way of the poems. I think it's important to maintain these categories and/or compartments in order to work better. Less can be more. Etc.' - Laura Carter 'It's worth noting as an aside that the most pernicious conspiracy theory about the 9/11 attacks was promoted by the American state. In the run-up to the Iraq war every effort was made to link Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda. Those who want to debunk conspiracy theories have an awkward time with this one - that particular paranoid fantasy wasn't pushed by the tinfoil hat brigade, but by a highly focussed and skilled group of people working in secret to manage the perceptions of the American and global public ... A conspiracy to promote a (false) conspiracy theory.' - Dan Hind

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Monday
Jul212008

Spineless

B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates I normally rail against the book as fetish object but sometimes there are objects worth forgetting principles for.

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Sunday
Jul202008

Pleasing Work #1