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Montreal is a disaster - Canada - Macleans.ca

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:32:08 -0700

I reside in Montreal and I do dislike it. Last year I had the chance to witness two restaurants burn down. Oh and those ugly weekend when ethnic tension escalate to blood on Prince-Arthur...

: : : MWM Graphics : : :

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:55:47 -0700

Matt W. Moore is the founder of MWM Graphics, a Design and Illustration studio based in Portland, Maine USA. Matt works across disciplines, from colorful digital illustrations in his signature "Vectorfunk" style, to freeform watercolor paintings, and massive aerosol murals. MWM exhibits his artwork in galleries all around the world.

Martin Beckett

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:08:23 -0700

Since I can't no longer look at my pages without a strong dislike--I am returning to my familiar format, so again expect more poetry, art reviews...

My first choice is Martin Beckett photography and yes he is a fellow stumbler. The above picture are from Martin's commercial online portfolio and I had a difficult time choosing only three pictures--I can hardly imagine going through his entire body of work.

I hope that Mr. Beckett will be able to provide an artist statement, if so I will post it a.s.a.p.

diaboluss favorites - StumbleUpon

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:07:54 -0700

Diabolus a provocative blog that expose death and much more--bluntly. I still like it and always will.

The Life of Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:07:18 -0700

Herrick cleverly says that poetry, a model of order, could be use to praise erotic disorder. In saluting disorder (praise echo in our time by Roland Barthes), Herrick practices what he preaches by exhibiting modest disorder in rhetoric, logic, grammar and versification.

About Herrick:

Robert Herrick was born in Cheapside, London, in 1591, the seventh child of Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. In November 1592, two days after making a will, Nicholas killed himself by jumping from the fourth-floor window of his house. The Queen's Almoner had to be paid a �220 fee for not to confiscate the Herrick estate for the crown as was usually the case with suicides. There is no record of Herrick attending school, although it is possible he attended Westminster School. In 1607 he became apprenticed to his uncle Sir William Herrick as a goldsmith.

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About the CRLMB

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:06:48 -0700

Many have asked how I was lately; the answer is that I am very well and quite busy renovating the country house, plus I am working and I am also getting everything straighten out for university; I have an honours degree in fine arts and a year in psychology, so now the problem is to get as much credited classes as possible--I pain in the neck. Oh I am starting from scratch and I will be going at The Centre for Research on Language, Mind & Brain at McGill.

THE MARTIN PAPERS: MY LIFE WITH MARTIN AMIS | More Intelligent Life

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:05:50 -0700

I don't normally like gossip but this book about Martin Amis written by ex-girlfriend Julie Kavanagh is quite humorous.

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...The see-saw was about to tip. That spring Martin learnt that he had won the Somerset Maugham Award for "The Rachel Papers", a tremendous accolade given to "the best writer under 35", with Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney among past winners. Kingsley had won the same prize in 1955 for "Lucky Jim", but had been furious at its stipulation that the money be spent on foreign travel. It was a deportation order, he complained to Philip Larkin, "forced to go abroad, bloody forced, mun". Being abroad was no problem for Martin, who had decided to finish his second novel in Spain later that year--it was just getting there. Even a 40-minute flight from Paris required a numbing amount of brandy and Valium cocktails. I can still see him tipsily overbalancing as he held onto our suitcase handle on the carousel, and being carried round on the little paunch he had then, legs bicycling in the air...

The Housman Society: Alfred Edward Housman

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:04:56 -0700

ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN, poet and pre-eminent classicist of his time, was born near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire in 1859. The eldest of seven children he entered Bromsgrove School at the age of eleven and, with a strong academic grounding there, won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford in 1877. After gaining First Class Honours in Classical Moderations, he failed his 'Greats', the Final School, in 1881 and so left Oxford without a degree. After a brief time teaching at his old school he returned to Oxford for a term to take a pass degree and the following year took up employment in the Patent Office in London, where his great friend from Oxford days, Moses Jackson, was working.

In 1892, on the strength of scholarly articles published in classical journals, Housman was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London. In 1896 his most famous book, A Shropshire Lad, was published and it has never been out of print since. The 63 spare nostalgic verses, born out of the troubles Housman suffered during his life, are set in a half-imaginary Shropshire, a 'land of lost content', and the heart-penetrating simplicity of its verse has given it an enduring popularity. Poem XL is typical of its mood

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eats reviews - StumbleUpon

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:04:12 -0700

Most interesting blog--a must read.

Spectacle lens offers high-definition vision | Article from Ophthalmology Times | HighBeam Research

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:58:40 -0700

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