Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
THE MOTHER AND FATHER OF NECESSITY
After reading Andy Diggle's post about standing desks and checking out the links he provided about the evils of sitting for extended periods of time, I made this makeshift desk for standing and it's working fine. Thank you Nick LaTour for loaning me the typewriter that serves nicely as a podium for my netbook. 
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
JACK THE RIPPER NEWS
Scotland Yard fights to keep Jack the Ripper files secret
Scotland Yard is battling to keep 123-year-old files on Jack the Ripper secret.
Photo: REX FEATURES
Last Updated: 11:26AM BST 15/05/2011
"Scotland Yard is fighting an extraordinary legal battle to withhold 123-year-old secret files which experts believe could finally provide the identity of Jack the Ripper.
Four thick ledgers compiled by Special Branch officers have been kept under lock and key since the Whitechapel murders in 1888...
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MYSTERY OF THE MONA LISA
The search for Mona Lisa unearths tomb and staircase
"Archaeologists digging for the remains of a 16th-century woman believed to be the model for Leonardo's Mona Lisa masterpiece have found a crypt and a stairway to a probably second tomb inside a former medieval convent in central Florence.
"What we found today confirms the precise corroboration between the historical documents and the preliminary results that emerged from geo-radar soundings," said Stefania Romano, a spokeswoman for the group behind the excavation at the former convent of Saint Orsula.
The team of historians plan to use geo-radar equipment to locate the skull of Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo, who died in Florence in 1542 and is believed to have modeled for Leonardo's celebrated portrait, now hanging in the Louvre.
Once they locate the skull, the team will try and recreate a likeness of what the woman would have looked like, compare her to Leonardo's world-famous portrait and unlock the centuries-old mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa's identity.
The historians will compare the DNA with that of two her children buried in Florence's Santissima Annunziata church to prove her identity, although some experts says Leonardo's final portrait may be a composite of other faces.
The Mona Lisa has exceptionally large hands and some art historians believe the sitter was a man - Gian Giacomo Caprotti, apprentice to and alleged lover of the maestro. Many have wondered if a secret lies behind the model's famously cryptic smile.
But most modern scholars now agree the Mona Lisa sitter was Del Giocondo, the wife of a rich Florentine silk merchant who according to Leonardo sleuth Giuseppe Pallanti became a nun after her husband's death and died in the convent on July 15, 1542, aged 63...
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Monday, May 16, 2011
CHRISTIE AND LaBUTE
Cannes 2011: Neil LaBute turns his macabre hand to Agatha Christie
American director promises 'a good romp and a cracking yarn' in film version of The Crooked House
American film director Neil LaBute is set to film The Crooked House by Agatha Christie. Photograph: Teri Pengilley
Charlotte Higgins in Cannes
The Guardian, Sun 15 May 2011 16.18 BST
"Neil LaBute has carved a career from seriously disturbing plays and films – In the Company of Men, The Shape of Things – that plunge deep into the American male psyche and find it to be damaged, selfish and brutal..."
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
BUK
so you want to be a writer?
by Charles Bukowski
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
FAULKNER QUOTE
"The only thing worth writing about is the conflict in the human heart." William Faulkner Sent from my iPhone 5
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
EDWARD ALBEE QUOTE
parisreview: Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. - Edward Albee Sent from my iPhone
Monday, May 9, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
THOMPSON ON THE KENTUCKY DERBY
The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved | ||
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I got off the plane around midnight and no one spoke as I crossed the dark runway to the terminal. The air was thick and hot, like wandering into a steam bath. Inside, people hugged each other and shook hands...big grins and a whoop here and there: "By God! You old bastard! Good to see you, boy! Damn good...and I meanit!"Sent from my iPhone
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
ART AND ANTHONY BURGESS
AdviceToWriters: Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. ANTHONY BURGESS #art #writing #amwriting
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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