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Wednesday, August 13, 2003
misteraitch commented below on a book from the Tartarus Press in England, which specializes in new editions of tales of the supernatural, with some good stuff for Machen fans
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Italian psychiatrist catches bureaucrat-rage from patient, kills own shrink with knife, stopped before going after the other 12 names on his hit-list with submachine gun
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Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Dalí/Disney collaboration Destino -- a 7 minute animation -- has been reassembled and won an Australian award [Animated Movies, Destiny-land]
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R.I.P. Howard Armstrong: last surviving black string band musician, and quite a guy in general, apparently [Undernews] The first link to MeFi has a link to what looks like a good interview with Zwigoff on string band music and such.
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Monday, August 11, 2003
Ballardian landscapes emerging in Serbia and Montenegro EuroDrought dredges up ghosts of WWII: German warships sunk in the Danube to stall the Russians [Undernews]
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Sunday, August 10, 2003
You can get noise-cancelling in-ear headphones from Shure for around $79, and they seem worthy
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This review of a new book on the Robin Hood myth mentions that the tights he's shown wearing lately were "originally deployed so that nineteenth-century actresses playing Robin could show their legs."...by the end of the 18th century, says Knight, "Robin Hood became a new man, and one who is still with us." Unlike other medieval heroes "who did not struggle free of the setting amber of antiquity, Robin, as ever, escaped to illuminate another day, another part of the sociocultural forest, with his multiple contradictory and essentially volatile set of values."
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Blogger's block at Doonesbury
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R.I.P. Gregory Hines and Jacques Deray
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