Tuesday
Oct072008
Will be reading at Openned on 21st October. Line up as it stands:
Here's a nice downloadable attachment. Recommended by me:
You can now become a fan of the EPC on Facebook. Other things you should become a fan of: Joseph Bazalgette Jeremy Clarkson Groucho Marx
Brutalism calls for writing that touches upon levels of raw honesty that is a lacking form most mainstream fiction. We cannot simply sit around waiting to be discovered — we would rather do it ourselves. Total control, total creativity. The Brutalists see ourselves as a band who have put down their instruments and picked up their pens and scalpels instead.Richard Barrett offers his own brutal assessment of this unparticular non-clique.
Ron Silliman's comments thread sees others and not best pleased with those 4000 pages I mentioned a while back. I can see both sides of the coin, and they both have heads on their tails.
Judged by the amount of money directly dependent on it, the British Bankers’ Association’s London Interbank Offered Rate matters more than any other set of numbers in the world. Libor anchors contracts amounting to some $300 trillion, the equivalent of $45,000 for every human being on the planet.... The calculation of Libor is co-ordinated by just two people, who work in an unremarkable open-plan office in London’s Docklands.Our fragility is unkempt.