December 2010
13 posts
My top 10 and bottom 5 movies of the year, as well... →
THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION REFUGE OF ALL THE ARTS AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF TIME ARMOURY OF FEARLESS TRUTH AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOUR INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE FROM THIS PLACE WORDS MAY FLY ABROAD NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER’S HAND BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF FRIEND YOU STAND ON SACRED GROUND THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
This is another polite note to urge Tumblr-ers everywhere to put their name, or at least some kind of indication of who or what you are, somewhere on your blog, so I know who just followed me. A hint, a clue… something!
TV ratings in the internet era
This is a bit outside my usual wheelhouse, but I wrote an article about how TV ratings are measured in this age of screen fragmentation for Ars Technica. Check it out if you think that sounds interesting.
“Following the 17th century the town became famous for its manufactories of kontusz belts, some of the most expensive and luxurious pieces of garment of the szlachta. Because of the popularity of the belts made in Slutsk, all the belts worn over the żupan were often called the Belts of Slutsk, despite of their real place of origin.”
Really need one of these. (From the Wikipedia page...
Welcome home.
I know it was tough for some of you guys to not have access to markslutsky.com for nearly 24 hours. It was hard for us too. Welcome back. And happy Chanukkah.
Celebrate Ricky Sargulesh!: HARRY POTTER WEEK... →
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This amazing story is called “What I Think It Would Be Like to Be Friends With Harry Potter” and it’s by the terrific Montreal carpenter and poet Mark Jim Slutsky. It gave me chills!:
A few years ago, on a fall afternoon sometime in the early ‘00s, I found myself listlessly poking through the…
I am so proud to be part of this year’s first-ever Harry Potter...
I say this with no false modesty—that I feel I have done no really significant work, whatsoever, in any medium. I feel that unequivocally. I feel that what I have done so far in my life is sort of the ballast that is waiting to be uplifted by two or three really fine works that may hopefully come. We’ve been sitting and talking about Faulkner, say, and Updike and Bergman—I mean, I obviously...