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…German Modernism and Errata
Cane Toad
Cane toad (Bufo marinus)
(Sometimes) I Have to Concentrate
I was still so unhappy about what happened to my favorite crazy character on The Borgias, Prince Alfonso of Naples that when I saw the words "pentagonal wedge" in connection with my latest eye surgery I must admit I felt a pang of ... well, solidarity. I can tell this...
Better Parted?
Centurion is supposed to be historical fiction about the disappearance of the Legio IX Hispania in the third century in something like the Battle of Teutoberg Wald but it kind of lapses into ... semi-fantasy. There is a lot of snow and awesome alpine scenery...
Yeah, whatever.
Franz Marc’s Birthday: Aphorismen 82
"I saw what the moorhen sees as it dives: the thousand rings that encircle each little life, the blue of the whispering sky swallowed by the lake, the enraptured moment of surfacing in another place. Know, my friends, what images are: the experience of surfacing in...
White Face et Wordsworth
Here are some more recent acquisitions from the rueful "Island of Misfit Books" project. You probably know all about William Wordsworth, the English Romantic poet who was friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom he visited Rheinland-Pfalz where they...
Franz Marc Holding a Violin
Well here it is, the long-awaited sequel to "Franz Marc Holding a Cell Phone." One of the things I like so much about Marc is that no matter how much you know about him, there is always something you don't know, that, when you find out about it, is completely...
Swede Film Festival Tampa
So the Swede Film Festival Tampa was last night at the Muvico in Ybor City. It seemed like about 100 people and hipsters showed out which mainly included the filmmakers and casts and their friends. Still it was fun in the way that comic events are more entertaining...
Cut Copy and Keane
If Cut Copy had 24 albums I would probably listen to Cut Copy all day and all night all the time...as it is hardly a cycle goes by that I don't hear all or parts of Bright Neon Like Love (2004), In Ghost Colours (2008) or Zonoscope (2011). Though Melbourne-based Cut...
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