BurningbirdAt wood s lot a reference to an old online interview with W.G. Sebald. What an unexpected treat this was. The entire interview was classic, wonderful Sebald, but I particularly liked what he had to say at the end of the interview: Certainly, my own life experience is that when I thought I had things sorted and I was […]
I haven’t said anything about the beheading of Nick Berg, and I won’t other than to point out a comment thread on a posting at David Weinberger’s and state that Dave Rogers is both eloquent and thoughtful for a man who says, ‘What do I know? I make all this shit up.’ Whatever I could wish to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. For those of you who subscribe to my feeds, note that I’m dropping the RSS 2.0 feed starting next week. Why? Because hosting an RSS 2.0 feed is providing indirect support for behavior that sucks the joy out of my day. Because Dave Winer is a hypocrite, and the so-called RSS […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am trying not to focus too much on Iraq because frankly the situation over in that country makes me so angry that I want to break something. But it’s hard to ignore the reports about our abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the very prison we have used as a model for […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I recently finished a wonderful biography on Walker Evans: Walker Evans: A Biography by Belinda Rathbone. Some critics have said that the book reads a little too matter of fact to be interesting, but that’s a perfect type of biography for a man like Walker Evans–an objective biography for an objective man. […]