23 Seconds to Circulate... (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars [...] [Related] Exploring Options Not having a job is getting tiresome already. I know...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Here are 11 refreshingly earnest and brazenly straightforward anthems that both rattle your floor and stick in your head. To this reviewer's ears, Roman Candle happily play non-hyphenated, non-adjective-ized Rock and Roll. I'm dreaming of a round volume knob, a long tree-canopied road, and Roman Candle's Oh Tall Tree in the Ear crackling loud out of the dashboard of a revved-up...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... veer toward the introspective, the arcane or the wise, while I prefer books that go off like a Roman candle. When I buy a book, I don't want to come away wiser or happier or even better informed. I want to get blown right out of the water by the author's breathtaking pyrotechnics. I want to come away astonished. That's Joe Queenan, writing in the New York Times in 2007, but now here's...
Verum Serum (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... motor ignites, you’ll be traveling at three times the speed of sound, perched on a high-energy Roman candle, hurtling into space, up there in the black void, subject to forces few humans have ever experienced. As you approach the apogee of the flight, and for a few minutes after, you will simply be freed from gravity, falling through space. A touch of the thrusters orients the ship...
Deceptively Simple (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
First in a series When I was 12 going on 13, and newly in the sixth grade at Delta Middle School, I had an English teacher by the name of Eileen Wilcox. She had the distinction of teaching Honors English (did we call it Challenge English?), and was one of those irrationally exuberant people who stick out like Roman candles in the non-explosive Midwest. Unmarried (odd enough for a teacher...
small dead animals (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Just as the Islamic nutcases go off like a roman candle for reasons that the majority of the world consider insane, the GW Crowd are right in the same boat. They'll start doing nutso things any day now. Copenhagen is coming and if you don't bow down, then you must be altered, the bears depend on it. Same mind set.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... the most important records are often the ones that don't know they're important. They flare like Roman candles and burn out quickly and, in that brief window of incandescence, they vividly illuminate a moment in time. So the song that seems to tell me most about the decade just ending is not something off Kid A or Yankee Hotel Foxtrot but the Freelancer Hellraiser's A Stroke of Genius....
radio deleuze (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.’ - Kerouac as always ~ a line so sober so... .Si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l’autre, vous êtes foutu. Blog Archive diggin' into radio deleuzefourni par Fanny et Gilles Deleuze abecedaire de Deleuze : "Idée"sign this ______________therea...
MN Progressive Project (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... activists here in Minnesota did not want to know about it. They did not want to acknowledge that a Roman candle of a news story was going off, right here in Minnesota, every day, ever since Bachmann's election to the State Senate. They remained absolutely clueless, wilfully clueless, content to wallow (self-satisfied) in their own pathetic little understandings of politics, and how...
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... about My Mother and Her Portrait by Chaisiri Jiwarangsan, in that it includes young men holding Roman candles, shooting fireballs into the night sky, and of youths playing under a light in a field. If it seems awfully similar to recent works by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, it's because Chaisiri -- a stills photographer for Apichatpong's Kick the Machine -- shot his film in Nabua, Nakhon...
Veronica Frydel - Journalism - Photojournalism (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... knowledge (episode14- play with words and different styles of English) and also falling image of Roman Catholic Church. Episode 13 is quite characteristic for Joyce’s style describing stream of consciousness of Gerty Mcdowell(seen as Virgin Mary), young girl that is being watched by Bloom from the distance. The girl encouraged by Leonard exposes herself purposely. The long rocket corresponds...
A View from Carmine Superiore (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Chilly and damp. Overcast.Remember, rememberThe fifth of NovemberGunpowder, treason and plotI see no reasonWhy gunpowder and treasonEver should be forgot.No vast autumn bonfires here tonight. No magical Standard Fireworks, all red and purple from Maddens' locked cabinet and hidden until now in the garage. No Catherine wheels or Roman candles, no rockets in milk bottles, no volcanoes....
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The promise of this foul enterprise lurked in every high school year book page, in every reference to the mad ones and the roman candles and the burning sensation.
planet mondo (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Did you have a favourite firework? I'm wobbling between the Roman Candle and Traffic Light. Not the Catherine Wheel though, which for all it's hi-propulsion promise, typically stopped-started, spluttered about-a-bit at random angles, eventually fizzling out for a flat tyre finale. And What's your preference for bonfire fun? The organised outdoor event, with it's inevitable delays (concerned...
Ornery Bastard (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I sure as hell ain't as smart as Paul Krugman but we share the same thoughts sometimes. I saw the economy tanking back in November of 2007. What I didn't see was just how bad it was going to be and it is now worse than I imagined. This country is FUBAR. 10.2% unemployment, the mortgage crisis is still burning like a Roman candle, the Commercial Real Estate nightmare is just beginning...
