You can always read Atlanta Nights (Travis Tea) if this MySpace-iary isn’t doing it for you. You might also want to read about more sordid publishing industry misbehavior.
Spontaneous combustion of manure starts 200-acre blaze and Man Pays Library $171, 47-Year Late Fee. Conventional wisdom says that these events are unrelated, but conventional wisdom would be wrong.
Caltech ended a 207-game losing streak this weekend against Bard College, but they haven’t yet started conference play. I mention this only because Caltech is in the same conference as Pomona (Pomona-Pitzer team), which has, historically, a considerably better basketball program.
Big college football programs tend to have 85 or so scholarship athletes (enough to go three deep in every position with extras); this fall the Pomona student newspaper reported that they’re having trouble getting its 37 players to practice. What? Football isn’t everything?
This a week after Boise State upset Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl and the state of Idaho suffered a mild earthquake from the jumping-up-and-down of one and a half million joyous residents.
Back to books.
How to Speak a Book (by Richard Powers): I have yet to read a novel of his (though I have one or two on my shelves and have heard good things about them, but I still have House of Leaves to finish), but I found this short little NY Times article quite fascinating. I would call it a must-read of sorts for those who write fiction and who are interested in the process of both reading and writing. Perambulation and reading, reading out loud and other such things … all already dealt with in research on reading. The writing bit interests me. Perhaps, also, because Klaus recommended I dictate my dissertation over the course of a weekend.
