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Posted on 12th January 2009
Full-Figured Experimental Music
As luck would have it, I’m the secret fifth member, for one night only, of an experimental music quartet named Second Land. I’ll be lending spoken word to the performance.
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Posted on 9th November 2008
A “Wake” for Link Magazine
Tonight was a mournful night for the arts community of Baltimore, even though the mourning was mostly in jest. A “wake” was held for Baltimore’s defunct arts magazine, Link: A Critical Arts Journal in Baltimore and the World (1996-2006). For ten years or so, Link was a preeminent authority on the subject of – you guessed it – arts in Baltimore and the World.
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Posted on 28th December 2007
2007 Roundup
At year’s end, it’s customary to reflect on the year and ask, “so what?” Here are some highlights, from the blog and offline.
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Posted on 30th June 2007
Crossposting from Wordpress to MySpace
NoCategories is now published at three addresses: MySpace, LiveJournal, and NoCategories.net
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Posted on 23rd May 2006
Strange Loops
This just in from the notorious Lord North…
Well met, my friends. My latest solo painting show is in the hallways of my workplace, Disney Feature Animation! So if you happen by Burbank, California, gimme a ring and I’ll get you in there to see them! Since that may be inconvenient for you, I’ve thrown them [...] -
Posted on 31st January 2006
I Have a Humble Announcement to Make
I’ve finished a draft of my story. I call it “A House Without Walls“. It was submitted, in the typical last-minute way, for inclusion in the first annual Electronic Literature Collection, sponsored by The Electronic Literature Organization. If it is chosen, it will join other works in a volume that readers can download or borrow [...]
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Posted on 16th January 2006
Literary Journals
I think I’ve ranted before about the prohibitive cost of the most reputable literary journals out there. That’s why I was excited to learn about the literary journal subscription discounts offered by the Emerging Writers Network. “The offer is simple – pay for one less journal than you order. Subscribe to 3? Pay for 2. Subscribe to 4? Pay for 3. And so on”
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Posted on 8th January 2006
2k6
A new year begins, and an old year ends. It has happened on every day that has ever been one year after any day like it, for as long as there have been years. New Years Day is the one we have picked to think about it, to keep us from going crazy.
In the elevator the other day, I heard a remark, “I can’t wait until all the new year’s resolutions are over. The gym is too crowded at this time of year. I thought it might be nice to express my own thoughts about the New Year.
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Posted on 18th December 2005
Physicalism
In short, Physicalism is pro-beauty and anti-bullshit.
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Posted on 17th November 2005
Do We Need a Dying Language?
My counterargument, then, is to address this question “What exactly might a language spoken by 250 people living near the Amazon River possess that, if lost, could never ever be reinvented in the future?”
