Author: Alex Irvine
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Complete Cosmicomics
The Complete Cosmicomics is out? I want it. Why is it only available in the UK? Here’s Jeanette Winterson, on the occasion of the book’s release, writing about Calvino in the Times Online.
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Robin Blaser, 1925-2009
In some ways my favorite of the San Francisco Renaissance poets. The initial word of his death comes from Charles Bernstein’s blog. Here’s one of his poems, which I hope Coach House Books (formerly Coach House Press, publisher of Blaser’s The Holy Forest) won’t begrudge me reproducing on the occasion: GOLDEN POEM everything is alive…
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Save Wardenclyffe
It is an article of faith around here that the earthly works of loony geniuses should be preserved. One such monument, Nikolai Tesla’s Wardenclyffe, is in danger of becoming yet another casualty of the financial meltdown. This NYT article has the whole story, and the image reproduced below (part of this slide show, which is…
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Off to Maine While You Buy DD Noir and Buyout
After lunch with Chris Schluep, during which schemes were hatched, and the first half of Man U’s blowout over Arsenal…wait. Check out the free kick by C. Ronaldo in the highlights: …and a meeting at Marvel during which one project got the go-ahead and others were pondered, I’m heading back up to Maine today. The…
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More Pungent Truth from The Onion
http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swfTrekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’
Crooked House Fictions 