Alexander’s Lost World is a 6 x 60” series coproduced with David Adams Films and Sky Vision. Following the course of the River Oxus (Amu Darya) for the first time, Adams takes viewers on an extraordinary 1,500-mile (2400 km) journey through war-torn Afghanistan and Central Asia. The Ancient Greeks have long been credited for bringing […]
The article Calvin & Hobbes Creator’s Life Lessons Become Beautiful New Comic is artist Gavin Aung Than’s comic based on a speech Bill Watterson gave at Kenyon College in 1990. Well worth taking a few minutes to read and enjoy the artwork. “To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy but it is still […]
UC Santa Cruz announced today that this will be the final season for Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC), the professional repertory company in residence at the campus. The current season, the 32nd since the festival debuted on campus in 1981, will conclude this year following the annual holiday show in December. News release at UC Santa […]
Women you don’t want to date. Or maybe women you want to date. Good thing I don’t have to worry about it.
than this headline. I had read parts of Maier’s work over the last decade but when I listened to Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 I really became enamored with her wit, style, and ability. I followed up by revisiting her other works, notably From Resistance to Revolution and American Scripture, and enjoyed them […]
At the risk of re-linking what you may have already seen, I wanted to highlight what Dean Putney has been doing. His blog, the Walter Koessler project, represents much work in scanning, researching, and publishing a family heirloom: his great-grandfather’s photo album. From Dean’s first post: It’s incredible for many reasons: Walter was German, and […]
I’m finally able to access my account and post. The “upgrade” to Blogger was enough to give me the push I needed to want to move to a different platform. I’ll need to finish getting ready for the school year first, which will take a couple more weeks. Hopefully I’ll have something in place before […]
I’m almost over a case of food poisoning so I’ll get back to posting soon. Funny thing when I’m sick…I have all this time to read but never feel like doing it when I feel bad. Fortunately that’s not as much of an issue now.
I’m going to post about a film before posting about the book for a change. Not that it matters…I’m not sure if it is harder to find the novel in the decent English translation or this film with English subtitles, but then I seem to excel in posting about things no one will ever read […]
Paine found himself carried forward by the immense wave of his book’s popularity into the heart of New World society. If Common Sense isolated the fears and the angers of the average colonist and focused them into a strategy for the future, its impact was tenfold for the men who would face charges of treason […]
At his print shop here, Robert Bell published the first edition of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet in January 1776. Arguing for a republican form of government under a written constitution, it played a key role in rallying American support for independence. Picture source at The Historical Marker Database We have it in our power to […]
Picture source at Wikipedia For the Fourth of July I thought I would do something different. The obvious choice would be to look at the Declaration of Independence or its philosophical history and background, but I wanted to re-read Common Sense and look at on one of America’s most problematic founding fathers, Thomas Paine. I […]
Thanks to Anthony @timesflow for tweeting about the planned reissue by Dalkey Archive of Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature by Hugh Kenner. Unfortunately it’s not scheduled to be released until next summer, but it’s a chance to set aside some money for wonderful essays written in the 1950s about 20th century literature. From the bookflap […]
Ivan Mosjoukine (Mozzhukhin) as Edmund KeanI thought I was through with my Kean project, but Sunday evening I checked to see what was on TCM and the onscreen guide promised Kean with Anthony Hopkins, the version I had blegged about a while back! Knowing this slot was usually reserved for silent movies I had my […]
B O D Y literature has the short story “Melancholy Leaves from Democracy’s Autumn Trees” by Jiří Hájíček, translated from the Czech by Gale A. Kirking. The story was originally in the collection The Wooden Knife and included in the English translation of Rustic Baroque. My post on this story and three others included with […]
Winstonsdad’s Blog is hosting Polish Literature month in October and since I’m not very good at posting in a timely fashion with others I thought I would read and post about these books over the next few months. I’m sure there will be more to add to this list. I’m also including a list of […]
I will be occupied for a few days with my Father’s Day presents. Perfect car-centric gifts for this redneck…NASCAR tickets and a Ford (Madox Ford). See y’all in a few days.
Honduran archaeologist Ricardo Agurcia Fasquelle, Executive Director of the Copán Association, presents this inaugural lecture in the Great Battles Series. Until recently scholars depicted the ancient Maya as a peaceful civilization devoid of warfare. This somewhat romantic notion has been overturned by evidence of a starker reality: during the Classic period (ca. 250—900 CE) an […]
Edmund Kean: or, The Life of an Actor by Alexander Dumas The English adaptation by G. H. Jessop and J. St. Maur (published 1881) Note: I’m not sure what happened but this post returned to draft status after being posted. There have been no changes since the original post yesterday. After I read the pictured […]
Kean by Jean-Paul Sartre (1953) Based on the play by Alexander Dumas Translated from the French by Kitty Black The Devil and the Good Lord and Two Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre (New York: Vintage, 1960)Related posts: See this post for an introduction to Edmund Kean and some history on Dumas’ and Sartre’s plays. This […]