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Bulletin Board The 2011 South Dakota Festival of Books has released the schedule for the event, set for October 7-9 in Deadwood. Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Bruce Springsteen’s Eulogy for Clarence Clemons (“Clarence doesn’t leave the E Street Band when he dies. He leaves when we die.”) The people who built Utopia […] A Kansas City grocery store is being sued because one of its employees shoved his hand down her pants and grabbed her breast — and the nearby cashier said, “he has been doing that all day.” Houston lawyer responds to middle school kids’ video dissing his daughter with cease-and-desist letters and lawsuit. For future reference: […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes How to survive the age of distraction (“In the age of the internet, physical paper books are a technology we need more, not less.”) (via) Against Reviews (“Reading a book review is like reading about a restaurant in a city you’ve never been to, and have no plans […] Although the seeds were planted earlier, dystopian literature has flourished in 20th century nutrients — the rise of fascism, ideological conflicts, global industrialization, and seemingly limitless advances in technology. Pessimism isn’t a prerequisite to realize there is a potentially detrimental synergy in the coalescence of these changes. It undoubtedly provides plenty of opportunity to envision […] |
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