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2007-10-17 00:12 "If you are too busy to read, then you are too busy"
University life is still hectic but I'm getting used to it once again (when I'm completely settled it will be time for Christmas holls, clearly) and today I found the time to put Pride & Prejudice in my mp3 and now I can listen to Elizabeth and Darcy bicker all day long. *glows* Besides that, I felt like memeing, so here it is, pass by if you shall :) - * those you have read - + those you started, but didn't finish - # those you own Embolden those you loved - Add three books after the last one 0 …
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2007-10-10 15:29 Nobel Lit Prize odds
Reuters is reporting on the betting odds for the next Nobel Prize winner in literature. Bookmaker Ladbrokes, which takes bets on the literary world's most prestigious award, has Italian novelist and essayist Claudio Magris as its favorite, followed by Australian "bush" poet Les Murray and American novelist Philip Roth. Swedish poet Thomas Transtromer lies fourth on the list with Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis in fifth. Though this may not seem like the most sophisticated approach to literature, the …
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2007-10-09 11:09 ˜Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice
Sam Harris and Salman Rushdie have a jointly authored op-ed in today s Los Angeles Times in support of Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics
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2007-10-02 15:45 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Moral Canary
C acophony Redux, with only one person asking relevant questions ... - R adio Netherlands: "Dutch parliament queries Hirsi Ali security cut" - "The Dutch Lower House has called for a written explanation from Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin on the provision of security for Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The former conservative MP has returned to the Netherlands, apparently because the government is no longer prepared to pay for her protection in the United States. ... Last year she left the Netherlands fo …
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2007-10-02 00:06 Länktips on the fly (39)
Om ni inte upptäckt den än: Avancerade studier. Så kan det gå när man diskuterar vissa ämnen/eller summerar nästan vilken slags debatt som helst, här råkade det vara klimatfrågan: Scott Adams - On the other hand "Recently I saw the best case of cognitive dissonance I have ever seen. It was on Bill Maher's show, Real Time, which I love. Bill was interviewing Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, who has a book about global warming, called "Cool It. "Rob Thomas said the interview "...confused the shit o …
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2007-10-01 20:03 The Road to 9/11: How America's Selfless Policies Unleashed the Jihadists
För en tid sedan så la ARI ut alla föreläsningar ur deras alla föreläsningsserie på nätet tillgänglig om man registrerade sig på sin hemsida. Det verar som om det inte var en tillfällighet för sommaren för nu har som uppdaterat med att lägga ut sin senaste föreläsning "The Road to 9/11". Förhoppningsvis så kommer dom att uppdatera listan för varje ny föreläsning i serien. "Six years after 9/11, the Bush administration's disastrous foreign policy has led many Americans to call for a supposedly "p …
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2007-10-01 12:30 Revisiting the Danish Cartoon Crisis
Over a year after the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published those now-infamous cartoons of Mohammad one of which portrayed the Muslim Prophet carrying a lit bomb in his turban the country is still noticeably on edge. When I recently visited Copenhagen, a week after a pre-dawn raid netted a handful of suspected Islamic extremists, the twin issues of Islam and integration were difficult to avoid. On television, the news and chat shows were dominated by discussions of coexistence with the coun …
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2007-09-23 04:47 Books I've read so far this year...
1. The human Christ: the search for the historical Jesus by Charlotte Allen. 2. Lisey's Story by Stephen King 3. Orientalism by Edward Said 4. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb 5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon 6. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett 7. Language death: The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect by Nancy C. Dorian 8. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 9. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Tranlated by Robert Pinsky. 10. Snow Flower and the Se …
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2007-09-04 16:48 Festival! Schedule! Here!
We've got it right here, right now. If you're susceptible to hyperventilation, have a paper bag handy (low-tech, but it works), and also keep in mind that 10 percent of the tickets will be held back for purchase at Festival HQ. Now, feast your eyes on this! Everything below will be going out on Festival Wire later today, and you should sign up if you haven't already, because otherwise you might miss out on something good. Like the surprise extra Judd Apatow event, for which you can warm up by vi …
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2007-09-04 11:56 Time for Real Estate
Mark Twain: Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. Many great philosophers have contemplated the theory of time. Real Estate professionals know that "time is of the essence" and we take that very seriously. A missed date could and would change the course of events in our contracts. As we get closer to our time limits our blood pres …
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2007-09-03 16:24 39 down, 11 to go!
Book 38: Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow A quick read. This collection of 5 short stories set across America depicts characters desperate to achieve some aspect of the American Dream, such as wealth, a family, acceptance, or spiritual attainment. The story protagonists never quite get what they were hoping for. My favorite story was "Walter John Harmon," which concerned life on a religious commune. I couldn't really get into "Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden" because I didn't realize until to …
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2007-09-02 05:17 The Moor's Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
As for the nursery, he was as good as his word. In a large light room with a sea view, he created what my sisters and I would always think of as the closest we ever came to an earthly (though mercifully non-horticultural) Eden. For all his Bombay-talkie bendy-cane-twirling comic-uncle antics he was a diligent worker, and within days of his appointment had acquired a knowledge of his subject that far exceeded Aurora's requirements. On the nursery walls he first painted a series of trompe-l'oeil w …
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2007-09-01 12:40 Cutting Edge Israeli Info Op
From today's L.A. Times: The Vietnam War-era slogan "Make love, not war" has been taken to its logical extreme by an Israeli pornographic website, which is engaged in a sort of cultural exchange of bodily fluids with the Arab world. According to a recent report in Daily Variety, when executives at Ratuv installed software that could track where their users were logging in, they found that the site was getting thousands of hits a week from such countries as Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq, eve …
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2007-09-01 12:38 Bhutto The Feudal Elitist
By Cernig I know, I've been pretty upbeat and supportive about Benazir Bhutto's ongoing campaign to return to power in Pakistan. It seems to me that any measure of civilian democracy has to be better than a military dictatorship which uses extremist Islamist politicians to help it keep a grip on power. But William Dalrymple's profile of Bhutto in today's Guardian "Comment" has given me serious pause for thought. Not far from the ruins of the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro, lies Benazir Bhutto's fe …
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2007-08-31 21:01 The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
Abracadabra! Hocus Pocus! But where should he begin -- Well, then, the trouble with the English was their: Their: In a word, Gibreel solemnly pronounced, their weather. Gibreel Farishta floating on his cloud formed the opinion that the moral fuzziness of the English was meteorologically induced. "When the day is not warmer than the night," he reasoned, "when the light is not brighter than the dark, when the land is not drier than the sea, then clearly a people will lose the power to make distinc …
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2007-08-31 00:35 This show could be your life
View image Judge Padma and Junior Chef (and Mad Molecular Gastronomist) Marcel, from Season 2, on location in Hawaii. Because I enjoy the confessional aspect of blogging, I'm going to admit to you something shocking. It's shocking to me, anyway. I have fallen under the spell of Bravo's "Top Chef" program. Here's the thing: I don't normally watch "reality shows" (though I saw the first few "Survivors" and the bizarre American debut season of "Big Brother") and I don't cook and I rarely eat in "fi …
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2007-08-30 11:16 On a budget road trip and swimming in words
This year being the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's iconic novel On the Road, I finally bought my own copy of the book. Strangely, though the upscale PowerPooks at Greeneblt and the hoi polloi National Bookstore at Quezon Blvd are owned by the same people, the former sold the book for P800+ while the latter for only P589 minus a 20 percent discount. It was the exactly the samebook - A Peguin Classics softbound 307 pager published in 2003 with a picture of blue car on the cover. (I even went b …
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2007-08-29 16:31 List redux
I decided that my list was neither satisfactory nor complete, so I'm fixing it. After that, this will become a linkable list of 100 things about Sassy Molassy. Like all the cool people have on their blogpages. 1. I am a high school English teacher. 2. I will turn 35 this year. 3. I procrastinate. 4. Brevity is not my strong suit. 5. I am extremely self-conscious about the fact that I talk too much and am sometimes powerless to stop it. 6. I often leave meetings and gatherings fearing that I have …
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2007-08-29 08:00 Endnotes: All About H Hatterr (1948)
The subject of this week's Endnotes could be one of the most influential out-of-print works in modern literature. All About H Hatterr is the adventures of an Anglo-Malay Indian anti-hero written in a part-English, part Indian argot invented by author GV Desani ."Only a few years ago, Master Keeper, I was sitting in my humble belle-vue-no-view, cul-de-sack-the-tenant, a landlady's Up-and-do-'em opportunity apartment-joint in India. "On the walls were hanging many home-framed photogravures of well …
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2007-08-27 00:38 I'm slow.
I got this set of questions from kassrachel ages ago, when the five question meme was going around again, but I had already answered kcobweb 's, and then got busy. So I'm resurrecting them. If you comment with a random fact about yourself, I'll ask you five questions too and you can go forth and continue the meme in your own space. (Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you! Stuff going on, you know -- this new book and everything... *g*) (I kept that in just to show you how long I have had …
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2007-08-26 00:10 Smoke Nights pt 2 (LotR, R, ongoing)
For a summary of the fic and Part 1 go here. This bit is still PG-13. I'll let you know when we get to the naughty bits. ~~~ The heat in Dol Amroth was like salt pouring out of a sliced sack. It oozed from the marshes, glinted off the slow sea. It hung on corners on the headland, heavily, dripped from tree branches slung low with moss and flowers Denethor had never seen before. Flowers that seemed built, colourful and intricate baubles; flesh-flowers the size of his head, open maws of scarlet. T …
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2007-08-25 19:05 The disclaimer for "Queen's Gambit"
Because I was too tired to add it yesterday, here's the disclaimer for the fic "Queen's Gambit," which can be found in my previous post. Disclaimer: This fic contains paraphrases or direct citations of the following chess-related quotes: "The opening is to be played as though reading from a book, but the middle must be played as though by a conjurer." - adapted from Spielmann "The master player is a strategist, not a tactician, for the tactician threatens, but the strategist threatens to threate …
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2007-08-25 10:33 Liberalism: just one more thing
This article appears on The Guardian's "Comment is Free" site. It's the last in a series of comments by various CIF contributors on a new book by Andrew Anthony entitled The Fall-Out: How a Guilty Liberal Lost his Innocence. Andrew Anthony maintains liberalism has enduring value but "some key liberal principles have slowly been subverted". His diagnosis is acute and his account convincing. While Will Hutton chides Anthony for failing to recognise that "generally liberal attitudes are much more n …
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2007-08-23 21:43 The Taco Bell canon
A young dad whom I met at the last meetup asked me for a top 10 list of diasporic desi books, movies and music for his older kids. So here's my incomplete, hastily-thought-out, Philistine, North Indian-biased list: classics to go. They're weighted toward those which focus on the immigrant experience and which I've actually read, seen or heard (e.g. I haven't yet read Sir Vidia's nonfiction screeds). Please edumacate away in the comments. Fiction The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri Life Isn't All Ha Ha H …
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2007-08-23 04:30 Taslima Nasrin Assaulted at Hyderabad Book Launch
Bengladeshi physician, author and human rights activist, Taslima Nasrin, is a woman who has displayed tremendous courage in the face of harassment and death threats issued by Muslim fundamentalists. Although Muslim by birth, Nasrin now says she is an Atheist. She has been a powerful spokesperson for feminism - a conviction arising in part from sexual assaults she experienced at the hands of relatives during her early years. After the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoon controversy broke out, she co …
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