Bowling for Columbine : Library : Teacher's Guide

Yeah, alright? Now can someone find me a set of lesson plans for The Big Lebowski?

Parker Palmer Interview -- YES! A Journal of Positive Futures

Nice interview. Bet you didn't know you were part of a social movement. Hippie radicals. Wait'll me and my John Birch buddies get into power.

Puzzleblog

Man what a cool idea. So simple and so fun to spend a couple of minutes here. I am putting this on my FroshBlog site along with Friday Five.

Textbook-l Info Page

Looking for a project to whet your grad student ambitions? Help the wikipedia write a textbook in your area of particular interest.

A Campus Fad That's Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism

Yeah, yeah, yeah, duh factor two, Sulu. Plagiarism is rampant when we ask them to write what makes no sense. Most of what we ask them to write is glacially stupid, that is, slow, monumental, and cold.
Slow in that it no longer reflects the writing world our students will be entering, monumental in that is static and text-bound, haplessly Schwarzeneggerian, and cold in that it does not engage their passion, their heart. Of course, I could be wrong.

This is just fun. Appeals to the semi-random in me. You pick from thirteen dropdown choices. For example I wanted a book that was very happy, extremely larger than life, extremely sexy (but not Trash sexy), and definitely bleak. Here are the books that whichbook chose for me to look at.

Crash by Nan McCarthy

In America by Susan Sontag

The Lone Man by Bernado Atxaga

Something Wicked New Scottish Crime Fiction by Susie Maguire (ed)

John Dory by John Murray

I am off to Amazon this very minute.

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Weekly Review - Sep 9, 2003: Harper's Magazine

Harpers has invented two new written forms: the index and the weekly review. The index is simply a list with facts counterpoised for editorial purposes. The weekly review is one paragraph with as many "facts" jammed in as possible. Faulknerian as all 'get out'.

Looking for a great place to listen to Internet Music since the bastards at the Library of Congress ruined most of the web radio stations? Try WFMU in New Jersey especially Glen Jones and Teenage Wasteland on Sunday afternoons. They have an incredible archive of past shows.

Have you heard of Toynbee Tiles? Have you seen them? Check it out. Bizarre and definitely worth a short story.

A fine poem to start a blog. A little shadenfreude with that.

The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered
Clive James (1939- )

The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles
One passes down reflecting on life's vanities,
Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews
Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book --
For behold, here is that book
Among these ranks and banks of duds,
These ponderous and seemingly irreducible cairns
Of complete stiffs.

Read the rest here: Clive James