Archives for the 'literary' Category

World’s Worst Poet

Published on 16 May 2008 at 8:13 pm. No Comments.
Filed under literary.

Takes in more than J.K. Rowling at auction. NYT’s The Lede.

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Halp Us Steefn Kinge Were Stuck In A Horrer Shoe

Published on 6 May 2008 at 1:32 pm. 7 Comments.
Filed under moronocy, literary.

Scary dogs, crazy sadistic writers and Langoliers loosed on NewsBuster Noel Sheppard after Stephen King goes all Shining about the criticism of his own version of “Stuck in Iraq” … remarks which frankly skirt dangerously close to plagiarizing John Kerry. 

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West Side Story II

Published on 10 Apr 2008 at 10:22 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under moronocy, literary, America.

It’s like the sequel to an American Romeo and Juliet story. Rocky Mountain News: 

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Book Deal

Published on 6 Apr 2008 at 8:24 pm. No Comments.
Filed under pols, literary.

Howie Carr says Deval Patrick’s book reeks of the Wright stuff. No, not Rev. Wright. I thought so, too. Jim Wright. The Boston Herald columnist suggests the $1.3 million as-yet unwritten tome will be a great vehicle for political payoffs just like Wright’s was.  

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2008: Odyssey Over

Published on 19 Mar 2008 at 7:42 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under science, literary.

I’m sorry, Dave. Mr. Clarke won’t be down for his tube of breakfast. Instapundit with a brief appreciation and reminiscence.

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Gunga Din

Published on 26 Feb 2008 at 8:55 am. 11 Comments.
Filed under pols, literary, history, racism.

I was steering clear of that comparison with the benighted wretch of imperialist doggerel fame, played in blackface in the movie. But the Dems aren’t so shy. This one, anyway. Boston Herald:  

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Kristol re Orwell on Kipling

Published on 18 Feb 2008 at 9:45 am. 5 Comments.
Filed under pols, Man Who Would Be King, literary, history.

And what they have to do with you.  Great historical prism.  Orwell was a lefty with a brain, who recognized the evil of communist as well as fascist oppression, and the dangers of acquiescence to either. He knew our flawed system was worth defending, setting aside squabbles for later. Kipling is ill-treated by Orwell in the cited essay as […]

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Acute Photography

Published on 11 Jan 2008 at 1:36 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, media, literary.

Everyone’s favorite warrior poet is going to be a war snapper now. Teflon Don, headed back:

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Ill Of The Dead

Published on 10 Nov 2007 at 11:56 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under literary.

He comes to bury Mailer, not to praise him. Roger Kimball gets in ahead of the hagiography of the amoral megalomaniac. I’m guessing this one’s been in the can awaiting the blessed event for a while:  

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More Disclosure

Published on 12 Aug 2007 at 10:15 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under pols, shameless self-promotion, literary.

That ad over there. Yeah, that’s my cousin. The lovely, talented and always controversial Danielle Crittenden. Love her, hate her, make sure you read her. ”The President’s Secret IMs”  is the first novel composed entirely of IMs, every page a screen grab. As far as I know, anyway. Welcome to the future.  We’ll all be talking and writing that way […]

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Full Disclosure

Published on 8 Aug 2007 at 10:11 am. No Comments.
Filed under shameless self-promotion, literary, history.

That ad over there?  Yeah, she’s my cousin.  She’s paying full fare, though I would have given her the space for free.  Good at what she does, like all Crittendens.  A fine turn of shtick with the IM thing. Natural gift of gab.  It has to be all the generations spent in the ancestral pubs of Oz […]

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Mullah Goose

Published on 6 Jul 2007 at 8:04 am. 12 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, literary.

Theo launches a Jihadi nursery rhyme contest. Here’s my entry: 

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Guantanamo Poetry Contest

Published on 20 Jun 2007 at 12:08 pm. 19 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, literary.

Terrorism detainees find a publisher.  This is great.  I wonder if al-Qaeda plans to put out any of Daniel Pearl’s haiku, or the sonnets of Nicholas Berg.  Think Matt Maupin has penned any doggerel lately?   

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Sir Salman

Published on 19 Jun 2007 at 12:20 am. 10 Comments.
Filed under GWOT, literary.

UPDATE: Pajamas signs on Danish Motoons editor’s blog.  
Question No. 1. What did they give him a knighthood for? Pissing off Muslims? 

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QuickPoe

Published on 13 Jun 2007 at 8:33 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under literary.

For a Wednesday morning FastThink: Powerline’s “Don’t Stare at the Apes.”

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RIP Kurt Vonnegut

Published on 12 Apr 2007 at 9:47 am. 10 Comments.
Filed under literary.

Devoured his books as a teenager, and believed a lot of the things he did, morality cartoonized and detached from reality, apparently thanks to Dresden and other personal traumas.  But he had been there and done that, and in any case his books were entertaining, with a keen sense of irony.  NYT here, includes this on the […]

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