July 2011
2 posts
Check out this Sasha remix. My brother could win the @burnstudios remix comp -Like to Vote! #burnstudiosRMX http://t.co/wJrlaX2
RT @nprnews: Why Do Fingers Wrinkle When They Get Wet? http://n.pr/jbui4r
June 2011
10 posts
Hi @danavan. I work for ManpowerGroup and missed your webinar today on social media for trade shows - is there another way I can get it? Thx
My favorite Super Humans! @PoweringTheWOW http://t.co/Pgaztj2
Getting into the work vibe by listening to @JacobBSwan’s Show Clubnight on @WSUM live!!! Tune in here: http://t.co/2MJi3JE
Visit #MGshrm11 at booth 2729 at #SHRM11 for a chance to win 1 of 5 Apple iPad2s – and get an additional chance now! http://t.co/SrhLL6L
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion…” Jack Kerouac
Looking forward to #sushimadness @JapangoSushi.
In the mood for some #meanicecream
April 2010
3 posts
I still love this essay by Dan Beachy-Quick: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/fashion/03love.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
We Are Not AVerse and DOVE Chocolate. Delicious combination! http://bit.ly/bVAzCw
We Are Not AVerse and DOVE on Facebook! →
October 2009
6 posts
Interesting interview today with Michael Chabon: http://bit.ly/coF0R
Interesting interview from The Rumpus: http://bit.ly/14n75n
And even more exciting, coming to U of M on October 18th…Anne Carson! http://bit.ly/C9WlU
At U of M this Saturday: http://bit.ly/2jJvAI
RT @GraywolfPress But today, Madden has been dethroned: All hail @case_face, Valiant Unpaid Killer of Giant Wasps!
RT @GraywolfPress Yesterday’s intern of the day was Madden, who brought in delish homemade ginger cookies.
September 2009
1 post
April 2009
23 posts
Shoo - the definition of footwear. Coolest Shoes. Coolest Shop. Coolest...
Linked Loud Men
http://www.thediagram.com/9_1/linkedloudmen.html (Also from DIAGRAM)
Ninth Letter - literary magazine - merges different genres and different disciplines. It fails sometimes. My heaven. www.ninthletter.com
3 and counting...
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/when-a-court-decides-who-can-marry/
A Rose is a Rose is a Poem →
itoodislikeit:
Heads up! It be National Poetry Month, land lubbers! My friend Tim and I are doing this blog thing, maybe avec contributions from other writerly friends, as celebration! Poem a day celebration!
I was slightly miffed that Tim rejected my numerous blog title ideas (the gem of the gems: LEAVES OF SASS), so I wrote a hackneyed Gertrude Stein imitation for today in order to let him...
Codex Mystery Decoded
My brother wrote me this e-mail the other day:
Upon reading your blog, my interest in the Codex Seraphinianus was renewed. I checked my school's library website to find that my school has a copy of the book. Considering I had some free time, I found myself at the art library earlier today. I looked around to find the book (for I knew its shelving number), but it wasn't where it was supposed to be. I asked an odd looking man at the front desk if he could help me find it. He stared back at me, and said, "I am familiar with that book. Let me take you this way." He led me into a locked room, where there was a kind, old lady. She asked what I was there for, he informed her that it was for the Codex Seraphinianus, and she told me that I had good taste. I was then led to go to the bathroom and wash my hands, in order for me to handle the book. I come back, and the book is lying on the table in front of me. It was quite long, and I spent a better part of an hour looking over its contents. I informed the librarian that I thought it was beautiful and left.
Sincerely,
Jacob
Contrast this mystery with the e-mail the author of the Codex wrote in response to an interview request from the author of the Believer article.
Luigi Serafini:
Buongiorno (good morning) Mr. Taylor!
thanks for your kind words of appreciation. My english is not as good as yours… it’s rather pidgin (as spoken in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea), but I’m ready to discuss with you about books and/or other topics by using all the idiomatic expressions I learned from Hollywood and pop singers…
A risentirci! (Goodbye for now!)
Luigi
Tone of these passages aside - which is a minefield in and of itself - the mysery surrounding the Codex (a first edition, which my brother's school has, running around $5,000 to $6,000) seems to be largely economic.
I listened to this on repeat last quarter. Thanks Jacob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgayA9agcro&feature=related
Great Article about Memoir Genre: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200310/?read=article_dagata
The Bygone Bureau →
Please check out my friend’s blog focusing on travel writing and cultural criticism. It won XSWi’s Web Awards for best blog. http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/03/sxsw-2009-web-a.html
One of the smartest ways to write fiction today is to say that you’re not, and...
– http://www.believermag.com/issues/200307/?read=article_marcus
Why is John Wayne such a bad ass? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjb0TwdPlpo&feature=related