Archive for April, 2009
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Reading Limbo at the Lilly, pt. 2
I’ve seen at least five different editions of Limbo online and none of them feature the cover art of the Lilly copy – a red and blue spiral at the center of which is the three legs of mann.
Compared to the staff and other patrons of the Lilly, I am not a book nerd. But [...]
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Reading Limbo at the Lilly, pt. 1
In a rash of research I did last summer on posthumanism, I came across mention of a 1952 sci-fi tale titled Limbo by Bernard Wolfe. Out of print and thus expensive, the only library copy available is housed with the rare books in the Lilly Library. After pursuing some pricey copies online and striking out [...]
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Dumb as a Post in a Box of Rocks on Top of 3 Pancakes Short of a Stack
Somehow, this video makes me think of all of us Americans, writ-large. We can imagine with our own eyes the beneficient happiness of the rope toy, or the squeaking duck, and yet we just cannot imagine how to actually get these things, given the fact that we’re in Economic Noocuuulur Meltdown of 2009!
4 Comments » - Posted in Cabinet of curios by nerdmeyr
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
The Great Plains Are Sitting Pretty in the RecessionAire
There are pockets of relative economic happiness scattered all over (well, except for poor Michigan, California, and S.Carolina) …. but look at those doughty great plainsers, esp. bumpuck WY with 1.9% and below. I guess that means out of the 50 people in that county, only ol’ drunkard Lee can’t find another local bank presidency [...]
