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Hurricane Finis "But for the grace of God..." is the reaction of many that Hurricane Katrina did not make a direct hit on New Orle...

Re-Wilding North America By now this idea under this title has gained a certain level of popular currency. First appearing in the 18 August ...

Dream-Work I hate dreams. In my late teens, having had one too many of these phantasmagoria, I adopted a mantra that I had read about in, li...

Lord God For sixty-one years a spectacular species of bird has clung tenaciously and anonymously to life in an obscure wetlands area in Arka...

"Subject: SPJ LEADS: Death threats can be fun (and other moments of jocularity)" Actual email I received from them today.

ANY CLUB THAT WOULD HAVE ME AS A MEMBER... I have been accepted into the Society of Professional Journalists. Li'l respect, please. Thei...

CLASHES OF CIVILIZATIONS For about a year I've had a bumpersticker on my car, "ISLAM HAS BLOODY BORDERS." I've gotten rem...

Remembrance of Remembrance I can count on about one finger the number of books I've reread. So many books, so little time. An...

started reading "Remembrance..." again.

Finished REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST tonight.

Ad in May 19 issue of Nature: "Faculty Position in Mouse Genetics." Contact Mount Sinai School of Medicine, N.Y., N.Y. Line forms ...

Things that You'll Like and that Are Good for You Too - Clear magazine. A magazine of design and fashion, Clear is the most visually ...

THE END Got my first solicitation from AARP today, "Welcome to US." -Benjamin Harris

Benjamin Jones' Art: A Review of His Drawings in New American Paintings #52 The most important quality for a work of art to have is the ...

NATURE- LY* March 17, 2005 cover story article in Nature , "The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome," twelve pages long includi...

SUCCESS HAS A THOUSAND FATHERS... "Publish or perish" being the whip on the backs of common laborers in the fields of scholarship ...

IDEAS THAT MAKE YOU WANT TO SLAP YOURSELF ON THE FOREHEAD AND GO "WOW!": CISTERNS ABC NEWS reported on its website on March 14 of ...

JOSEPH CONRAD'S NOSTROMO "The greatest novel in English of this century." So wrote someone named Walter Allen of Joseph Conrad...

Graham Greene "There is no peace anywhere where there is human life..." Another Mexico (The Lawless Roads) Christianity, alon...

Graham Greene: "...for surely we choose our death much as we choose our job." ( The Future Strikes) I chose death as my job. -Benj...

Yves Klein Blue The current issue of Artforum has a review of last year's Frankfurt exhibition of Yves Klein's work. There is a pic...

Norwitch's Revenge? It was Shaun Wright-Phillips whose shot set up Robbie Fowler's rebound putback in injury time that "crushed...

"Nabakov on Bleak House" In 1948, Vladimir Nabakov was teaching at Cornell and gave a famous series of lectures on literature. ...

This month's issue of Artforum is the first since the death of Susan Sontag and contains three tributes, one by Arthur Danto. I'm...

Norwitch/Man City and the Reason I Gave Up Sports One of the reasons I lost my interest in sports, and it was a gradual loss over a period o...

Why Are Almost All Paintings Rectangles and Squares? Why not circles or triangles? Clement Greenberg was the most influential art critic in ...

Art: Emotion and the Intellect Anybody who thinks about art even a little, those of us in the general public when confronted with an unfa...

Life on Mars I've started and restarted this post several times, not sure how to do it. I don't want to sound dumber than I can help...

"Tell me what a man does and I'll tell you what he is," is an old English saying. Nature magazine takes it one step further. T...

Donald Kuspit, Quote Machine Calvin Trillin once wrote of advising his friend R.W. Apple to donate his expense accounts to The Smithsonian, ...