Discussion of Confederacy Staging
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Books are not life, only its ashes
Here is an interview I came across with Yourcenar. As one would expect she takes no prisoners and clearly would rub up activists the wrong way — hence they systematically avoid her, assuming they’d even read top-notch stuff like “Hadrian”. I guess she would be unknown to “creative writing” courses constituted as they seem to be by…
Stars Send off Allen Toussaint with his Own Tunes
Only in N.O. — click above image for 15 minute video footage of second line in spite what Keith reports AT wanted below. In any event, a second line was what made me fall in love with N.O. As I anticipated, the very excellent Keith Spera on Allen Toussaint’s send off with a whose who in attendance :…
Allen Toussaint’s Send Off
OffBeat Magazine’s coverage. Looking forward though to Keith Spera’s report. Allen ToussaintKeith Speranew orleans
Staged Confederacy of Dunces Reviews
I’m typically very sceptical about a great piece of art being adapted for another modality and though the reviewers don’t fully grasp CoD, I think this shows. Burma cynical? Only the shallowest of readings of the book would suggest that but if he comes over as such in the play, then we have a disjuncture. The…
Smokehead Islay
This mystery Islay (we don’t know the distillery) doesn’t live up to the packaging hyperbole — I can’t figure out who the target demographic is. I don’t think that there is such a thing as an “entry level” Islay — if one is going to try one for the first time, one might just as well…
Eliot and Swinburne: Idealism and Decedence
Eliot and Swinburne have been part of my consciousness for many years but for different reasons. The former I primarily knew for his Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley (his Harvard dissertation) and the for latter, my curiosity was piqued through my walking regularly past 11 Putney Hill, Sw15 on my way to…
WALKER PERCY WEDNESDAY 59
Women are mythical creatures. They have no more connection with the ordinary run of things than do centaurs. I see her clearly, gin fizz in one hand, the other held against her sacrum, palm out, pushing herself rhythmically off the wall. Women! Music! Love! Life! Joy! Gin fizzes! . . . It is true. Women…
Jonah Lomu — The Greatest
Sad news reported in The Guardian. Try facing him with no helmet and padding/armour a la North American football and coming at you at serious sprinter speed carrying 262 pounds and with the presence of mind of a terrier. I saw his finest hour in a pub in La Baule during the World Cup ’95. all…
Syd Barrett
Much ink has been spilled over SB but viewing the two documentaries below (they do overlap) one is touched by how Pink Floyd kept his story alive and because of his absence, gave them new purpose. What other band that has lost a key member that has been so elegantly elegiac about their past colleague? Each band member is very articulate…
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