My review of Butterfly in the Typewriter is now listed on the JMB site.
Outsourcing Your Mind
An interesting piece since it references literature beyond the canonical extended mind hypothesis.
The Walker Percy Weekend
Another plug for what promises to be a fantastic couple of days. With two months to go already half the tickets have been sold.
Muddy Waters
Born on this day.
Wynton Marsalis and Marcus Roberts
Behind the scenes for 60 Minutes.
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 55
Mrs. Levy was a woman of interests and ideals. Over the years she ad given herself freely to bridge, African violets, Susan and Sandra, golf, Miami, Fanny Hurst and Hemingway, correspondence courses, hairdressers, the sun, gourmet food, ballroom dancing, and, in recent years, Miss Trixie. She always had to settle for Miss Trixie at a distance, an unsatisfactory arrangement for carrying out the program outlined in the psychology correspondence course, the final examination of which she has failed resoundingly (p. 159).
Peter Carruthers on Working Memory
This from Scientific American.
Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks, 1922-86
Butterfly in the Typewriter: Critical Notice of Toole Biography
Hammer of the Gods
Listening again to the O2 concert it has became clearer than ever that Led Zep’s sound is of Wagnerian proportions, dragging you through the Mississippi delta up to Norse and Celtic mythology and much in between and then back down to the delta.
Here are two decent enough interviews — the first is with Jimmy “biological research” Page (what a career, what a life!); the second with the three original members. They articulate, insofar as one can, what made them so musically special, as a group that is. The mysticality of the O2 performance is almost palpable devoid of some of the tiresome pomposity that marred The Song Remains the Same some thirty years earlier.
