Day: February 8, 2005

25 Short Stories   Stephen Vincent Benet     The Sun Dial Press, Garden City, NY, ©1943     University of Michigan Libraries     Dewey 828 B465     572pp. I’m reading 25 Short Stories, a collection of seminal American works by « Stephen Vincent Benet », one of my favorite authors. Two of the works are Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates and By...

Adbusters.org has the true American Imperial Corporate flag. The government might as well go ahead and adopt it; it’s more true than anything else flying. Let’s let Adbusters say it: ‘Corporate America is revelling in a Golden Age. A shrinking number of the planet’s biggest businesses—AOL Time Warner, Shell, Nike, Microsoft, McDonald’s—are the money behind...

Tired of living in loser countries that want to round you up in concentration camps and stone you to death based on fictional 5,000-year-old Jewish scrolls? Well then! « The Gay Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands » just might be for you! ‘Alone, unaided, neither seeking nor requiring help the Gay & Lesbian Kingdom rose in...

Fascinating stories about ‘33-’45 still crop up even today. This time, it’s from a « former Nuremberg trial guard who says he helped Goering escape hangman » ‘A former guard at the Nuremberg trials has come forward to say he believes he provided the poison that Nazi Hermann Goering used to commit suicide hours before his scheduled...

Cafe Ambrosia was Cafe Hungry Like the Wolf this afternoon. The guys behind the counter were apparently (from what I could gather) striking back at the pretense of a « rockist » critic from earlier in the day by playing what sounded like « Decade » (nothing after 1988 was on the disc, which was just as well) from...