A Bit of Fry and Laurie

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFD01r6ersw&rel=1] via Jody Porter

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's big mouth

'We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.'

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Blue Bus Reading

The Blue Bus will be back at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, in the upstairs room, on Thursday 21st February, 7.30, with a reading by Linda Black, Sharon Morris and James Harvey. Future readings will include Lee Harwood, Robert Sheppard, Chris McCabe, Vahni Capildeo, Maurice Scully and Lou Rowan.

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SMS

21/02/08 12:07am The rat, fearful of discovery, sheds a tear for undone plans. 20/02/08 4:23pm The land crab paints a heavy shadow on the face of the precipice and, moribund, admires his work, knowing his peers will never understand his vision. 19/02/08 6:14pm The kelp, aware only of its existential rage, blocks the sun over the raucous shrimp. 19/02/08 1:22pm The vole's only defence is spit and mustard. The rodent is possessed of iron will and steely determination, but is vanquished by his deadly foe.

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'Those crazy sonsobitches! They'll never make it through the vortex!'

'Two competing visions of the future went head-to-head online yesterday as HarperCollins and Random House launched contrasting new experiments in book distribution on the same day. Building on a scheme launched in 2006 which allows users to flick through extracts of the books they publish, HarperCollins is releasing complete texts from a small selection of authors for periods of a month to test how free access affects sales.' Link

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TALKSTALKSTALKS

This Wednesday: Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell will be talking about 'Cunning chapters' - their collaborative project at TALKS, Council Room 7.30.

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Christian Bök on the post-avant

'I might even argue that, just as the prefix "neo-" (when grafted onto the name of an artistic movement) no longer means "novel," but "retro," so also does the prefix "post-" no longer imply an advancement beyond, or even an abandonment of, a past idea for a better future—instead, the prefix now signifies something like: "more of the same—only worse.…"' Link

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Bad Sex Award 2007

'She had on no knickers, and my heart went crash-bang-wallop and my eyes popped out. She hadn't shaved, and her fanny looked like a tropical fish or a bit of old carpet.' Link

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Heidegger, Derrida, Zizek texts

Goodies. Link

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He's... a machine

'Philip M. Parker, a professor at Insead, the international business school based in Fontainebleau, France, has written 85,000 books and counting. He's like a machine. In fact, he has a machine that writes them for him.' Link

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