The real Oscar Wilde, to be used as a supplement to, and in illustration of "The life of Oscar Wilde".: With numerous unpublished letters, facsims., ports and illus.
Secret Society of List Addicts (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Though Alexandra is neither a unicorn nor a socialist, she writes a fantastic blog with the name of Unicorns for Socialism . She loves Target's accessory isle, peanut butter flavored breakfast cereal and tiny packets of real creamer, resting in dishes of ice cubes. I'm an out-and-proud gay lady, but that doesn't mean I'm utterly oblivious to the swarthy charms of the burlier sex ... although it's...
No colo do meu avô... (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
"A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body." André Maurois "The past is not a package one can lay away." Emily Dickinson "The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it." Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Miranda Seymour enjoys a detailed insight into the daunting life of a Victorian hostess Gertrude Tennant, a centenarian born in 1818, was one of those formidable 19th-century hostesses whose names surface today primarily due to their unremarkable encounters with other, more eminent, Victorians. Heavy-browed and scornful-eyed, her chin supported by one of those lace swaddling bands favoured by dowagers...
AUS style (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
A shipment of some rather hipster books I ordered arrived on my doorstep yesterday. The first is Lesley Arfin's Dear Diary which, after reading a review about in either Russh Or Yen ages ago, I have been meaning to get my hands on. I don't enjoy Lesley's column for Russh immensely but I'm quite sure her life 'experience' as documented in this book should be interesting enough. Lesley lives in Brooklyn...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
British playwright Joe Orton was one of those artistic comets who blaze brightly but briefly across the theatrical sky. With just a handful of plays from the mid 1960s, Orton hit with a savagely anarchic view of sexuality and morals. What outraged and delighted London during Orton's short life (he died in 1967 at age 34) has endured, with the plays receiving regular revivals. B Street Theatre's delectable...
I'll have one more, and then I'll go... (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
When insult had a class... : " These insults are from an era before the English language boiled down to 4-letter words. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway). 'Poor Faulkner. Does he really...
Valleys Mam (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)....
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
GANYMEDE POETS, ONE First annual anthology of all 38 poets published in the first six issues of the gay men¹s quarterly GANYMEDE 172 pages, 6x9² perfect-bound paperback book, illustrated throughout with thematic photos Purchase link, details, sample pages: http://ganymedepoets.blogspot. com/ "...an innovative, nearly overwhelming new player among poetry anthologies."-- AssociatedContent.com...
Baby Blue Spider (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
NaBloPoMo Topic #7: "Orange" I never dreamed that this NaBloPoMo thing would lead me to a confession that would spoil the trust and honesty I've enjoyed with my lovely bride over all these years. I was sure I could keep this bottled up. My wife, Melanie The Glue Stick Chick, posted the following on her Orange NaBloPoMo, " Orange also reminds me of when my husband, Michael and I first...
MY HAPPY ENDING (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
When Insults Had Class These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. ^ I found these posted on facebook. Quite interesting, since I'm learning about most of these people in history ATM! "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with...
visoundtextpoem (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Jane Smiley acclaims Arthur Miller's remarkable short stories Arthur Miller was 46 and I was 12 when I read The Crucible . A few years later, I read another play in school, Death of a Salesman . The effect of these early readings was not to give me a sense of the man (or boy) Arthur, a human being making his way in the world, but rather to monumentalise him, to make him interchangeable with Shakespeare...
Tim Waygood- Articles and Rambling (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hard-headed realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, & county commissioners." — Edward Abbey "Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government...
FIRST THINGS (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The life of James Tissot (1836–1902) brackets the Victorian age; his art reflects, to a remarkable degree, the preoccupations of that time. Not least of these were the Victorian Catholic revival and devotional mores on both sides of the English Channel. The tenor of that piety—and modern distance from it—is the unspoken subtext of the Brooklyn Museum's decision to rescue a portion of...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I first saw Absinthe on sale a year or so ago in a bar in Prague. I was quite surprised considering its ferocious reputation, something I had learned about in studying France and the literary demi-mode of La Belle Époque . This was a dangerous, maddening drink associated with the decadent and the degenerate. But it is also a drink which, in its original form, not in its recent reincarnation,...
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knmurthy | 07/25/2009
Friendship Day celebrations take place on the first Sunday of August every year. The tradition of dedicating a day in honor of friends began in US in 1935. Gradually the festival gained popularity and today Friendship Day is celebrated in large number of countries including India. On this day people spend time with their friends and express love for them. Exchange of Friendship Day Gifts like flowers,...
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