From Making Light: On QueryFAIL
nielsenhayden.com/ makinglight/ archives/ 011160.html( Skipped bit )

I think I've mentioned my theory/feeling about myths & folk stories & such traditions being mostly what we'd now call 'fanfic'. Here are two people dealing with some of the ideas in that. (Most of Jonathon's Harper's article isn't so sesqipedalian )
The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism,
by Jonathan Lethem
Harper's Magazine, February 2007:www. ( Read more... )

YouTube - El Paso Christmas Light Show 2007"Over 120,000 lights in synch to the music of The Trans-Siberian Orchestra." (adrianh1969)

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They say it's good to have a hobby. Hmmm. I'm amazed, but torn wondering if it'd be possible to put all this time, energy & expertise into something … "better"? … then, I guess it could have gone into something worse ( Read more... )

May I draw my readers' attention to one of this year's winners of the Australian Institute of Architecture awards, the Klein Bottle beach house on the Mornington Peninsula, outside Melbourne (Victoria). It's described here [Sydney-Melbourne rivalry? Phfft! Nah. Doesn't happen these days.] as “some metallic fungi-form zeppelin flung from outer ( Read more... )

From Little Blog In The Big Woods :
The Last Dance(Wed, 24th Sep, 2008)
littlebloginthebigwoods.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 09/ last-dance.htmlThe turn of the year
There's a special autumn event I look for every year. It doesn't have a name.

Actually, I've never met anyone else who has seen it, or heard of it. A fact that makes me think, and wonder if that ( Read more... )