Despite my reservations about Suicide Girls (wow skinny white women with big breasts...but they have blue hair and tattoos! Yawn) there is a pretty cool interview with the creators of Sealab 2021 up on their site.
They may scream loudly that gay-bashing actions like the proposed constitutional amendments are not homophobic but they are. Such hatred emerges easily from the same intolerance, bigotry and racism that still infect the roots of the Grand Old Party.Yet they look the other way and practice a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy when one of their own is gay. Back in the early 1980s, Terry Dolan’s National Conservative Political Action Committee was the toast of the right-wing while Dolan’s homosexuality dominated Washington’s whispers and people snickered at the anti-gay stances of the organization. When Dolan died of AIDS, many Republicans publicly professed shock and privately sighed with relief that he was gone.
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds will be speaking at Stockton in November.
Johnson, Samuel. Johnson on Shakespeare. London: Oxford UP, 1929. 189-196.
Interesting essay which breaks down various speeches by Hamlet and explains them. This is nearly one hundred years old but I found the discussions to be very interesting and informative. Could be useful for a paper.
This can also be found archived online.
Dante
The document which condemned Dante to exile has been made public for the first time ever.
"The 'Eternal Now' in Borges' 'The Garden of Forking Paths' and 'Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote' ."
Elmajdoub, Aburawi A., and Mary K. Miller. "The 'Eternal Now' in Borges' 'The Garden of Forking Paths' and 'Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote' ." Durham University Journal 2 (1991): 249-251.
Good stuff in this article. The concept of the endless present tense and created forms of certainty (ex-calendars) are discussed in full in this short article in relation to Borges' Pierre Menard and The Garden of Forking Paths. Both of these stories are excellent and were used for my senior thesis this past semester. I would have also included a discussion of The Immortal here. When I edit my thesis for online placement I will certainly look at this article again.