March 2012
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Here is a book that wrote itself →
romanflaneur:
In his now seminal essay, “The Death of the Author,” Roland Barthes wrote, “To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.” Ark Codex ±0, newly released from Calamari Press both as a full color print object, and digitally for a “pay what you want” rate, takes the inversion of Barthes’s idea to its mega-limit,...
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Peeking behind the white-bread curtain →
What happened next entangled great-grandmothers’ choice of bread with high-stakes questions of race, responsibility, and citizenship. Small immigrant-run bakeries came under intense scrutiny, with sanitary inspectors and women’s groups painting pictures of dank, vermin-infested cellar workrooms where sewage dripped into dough-mixing troughs and whole families slept on rag piles next to...
mardallie asked: Camellias! Is it actually early for a camellia or are they early bloomers?
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February 2012
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Pity the poor Canadian butter-lover →
I had no idea that Canadian uniformity extended to its butter too. Here’s a long story about a small dairy that is bucking the trend, and producing butter that pastry-makers and others actually want.
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From Vietnam movies alone!
dayelmar:
englishprof:
I just wonder how much of Buffalo Springfield’s royalty base comes from flashback sequences alone.
There’s something happening here…
What it is, though, is not perfectly clear.
