Fortunately, our writing is much better than these contest winners! However, these provide a wonderful laugh.
Bulwer-Lytton Contest Winners
For all lovers of good writing, here are this year’s winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest, (aka “It Was a dark and Stormy Night” Contest) run by the English Department of San Jose State University, wherein one writes [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Pete
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The Flood produced the newest showing from the Editors. It’s a lot more electronic, and it’s taken me a couple of listenings, but Editors still know how to write and craft great music.
Here are some of my favorites from In This Light & on This Evening.
01 In This Light And On This Evening [...]
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Tobias
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Posted on January 18th, 2010 by Tobias
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For some reason, I can easily imagine J.E.’s art interposed on this, and him cranking and flinging the trebuchet with glee. I can imagine all of us doing this, but especially J.E. (I hope I don’t misrepresent).
I hope you guys enjoy this web game as much as I did. I finished it all in [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Tobias
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I know there has been a flurry of activity lately that we can hardly respond to but I wanted to keep this up (at least for now).
This was the result of some accidents playing with ink recently.
Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Ned
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The Temper Trap | Conditions 01 | Love Lost 02 | Rest 03 | Sweet Disposition 04 | Fader
Posted on January 14th, 2010 by Tobias
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I suppose this could category could designate different things for different people. It could mean art or shows that you’ve seen in the past decade, art that’s been created in the last decade, performing arts, movements in art, news about the arts, etc.
I used a photo of Kara Walker’s artwork, because I think I remember [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by Tobias
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Matisyahu – One Day WNYC Studio with Beat Boxing
Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Ned
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It’s not Thursday, but I’ve been meaning to post this for about a month.
I heard the following interview and performance with Patrick Watson and the Wooden Arms on NPR in early December. It was a fantastic piece, but for some reason I thought it would totally be up Ned’s Alley. Not that I’m all that [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Tobias
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This should be a lively discussion…the quantity of books published in the last decade, and amount of time invested in reading them means there will be far less “shared” time with the same books as our fellow Hollow Men.
Posted on January 11th, 2010 by Tobias
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The title says it all. What are your favorites from the 2000’s?
Posted on January 10th, 2010 by Tobias
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Has anyone seen this? I watched it in four parts after discussing The Fantastic Mr. Fox with my sister. It’s absolutely worth the twenty minutes (even if full grown wolves don’t have blue eyes). Here’s the link to part one:
Peter and the Wolf
Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Ned
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"Overman would be proud," I mumbled to myself after hearing the second Elvis song in a row at 8:05 yesterday morning.
Yup, he would be ecstatic that if there was one thing carried over from my high school education, that I could recall Elvis Presley’s birthday with minimal prompting would be it. So I [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2010 by Pete
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Alright, let’s hear of your choices for the best music of the decade.
Serious contenders? Personal favorites? Guilty pleasures?
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Tobias
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Years, that is. It’s the anniversary of Galileo discovering Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto orbiting Jupiter.
Read more about it here and here.
Posted on January 7th, 2010 by Tobias
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