February 2012
13 posts
Anonymous asked: who is speaking in the poem?
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via troubled)
themonkeyandtheturtle:
The Monkey and the Turtle (2012-02-05) by randomsalt
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themonkeyandtheturtle:
The Monkey and the Turtle (2012-02-03) by randomsalt
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January 2012
31 posts
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Witchgrass - Louise Glück
Something comes into the world unwelcome calling disorder, disorder— If you hate me so much don’t bother to give me a name: do you need one more slur in your language, another way to blame one tribe for everything— as we both know, if you worship one god, you only need one enemy— I’m not the enemy. Only a ruse to ignore what you see happening right here in this bed, a little paradigm of failure. ...
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Young Critics Circle Film Desk: On Criticism →
yccfilmdesk:
Eulalio R. Guieb III
Criticism interrogates. It interrogates our individual and collective experiences with meanings. There are meanings that detain us in the prisons of our oppressors, and there are meanings that tell us which truths are more preferred under the contingencies of our…
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Why the Poor Pay More →
tetw:
by DeNeen L. Brown
You have to be rich to be poor. That’s what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don’t understand. Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost.
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“I believe that this could be catastrophic in terms of HIV prevention.”
– Michael Weinstein, president the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Weinstein was commenting on drugmaker Gilead’s application for FDA approval to market its HIV treatment medication Truvada as a HIV prevention pill. If Truvada is approved for preventive use, it “would be the first agent indicated for...
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themonkeyandtheturtle:
The Monkey and the Turtle (2012-02-01) by randomsalt
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The Monkey and the Turtle (2012-01-31)
The Monkey and the Turtle (2012-01-31) by randomsalt
WatchCUP!
(Sabrina & Salem: Together Again from Melissa Joan Hart)
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The Quiet World - Jeffrey McDaniel
In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, ...
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Out of Danger - James Fenton
Heart be kind and sign the release As the trees their loss approve. Learn as leaves must learn to fall Out of danger, out of love. What belongs to frost and thaw Sullen winter will not harm. What belongs to wind and rain Is out of danger from the storm. Jealous passion, cruel need Betray the heart they feed upon. But what belongs to earth and death Is out of danger from the sun. I was cruel, I was...
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Dreaming of Li Bai - Du Fu
The pain of death’s farewells grows dim. The pain of life’s farewells stay new. Since you were exiled to Jiangnan – Plague land – I’ve had no news of you. Proving how much you’re in my thoughts, Old friend, you’ve come into my dreams. I thought you were still in the law’s Tight net – but you’ve grown wings, it seems. I fear yours is no living soul. How...
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“And just because he’s sweet and earnest doesn’t mean he can’t lay you out like a...”
– Glossylalia: Sometimes you just need someone who can say “yes please” and mean it. (via sexartandpolitics)
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Mosquito Press: An interview with Jinkee... →
mosquitopress:
BY THE STAFF
“What happened to Jinkee’s face??!” cried many on social media this week, after seeing the latest cover of Mega Magazine, with a virtually unrecognizable Mrs. Pacquiao.
Well, we at Mosquito Press have found out. We tracked Jinkee Pacquiao’s old face to a nursing home in…
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Science Publishers vs Scientists →
futurejournalismproject:
Are academic publishers the enemies of science? That’s what a recent Guardian headline says.
At issue for critics is a publisher-backed bill in the US Congress called the The Research Works Act. The bill would give publishers increased copyright control over publicly financed research and the papers and data that come from it.
Via the Guardian:
The USA’s main funding...
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Marshmallow Boy vs. Pokemon Kid →
tetw:
by Po Bronson
If I could use subtitles on this blog, this one would read: Why the most famous study of child-distraction is itself a huge distraction.
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[Random Salt] Ressa's reckless 'rappling' →
“Rappler”, a portmanteau word coined from “rap” and “ripple”, is the name of a fledgling web site that describes itself as a “a social news network where stories inspire community engagement and digitally fuelled actions for social change”, and whose team promises “uncompromised journalism that—hopefully—inspires smart conversations and ignites a thirst for change”. Such statements betoken...
Anonymous asked: what is the meanig of the song Muyin Paru Ninu"?
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Sex, Kink and Plagiarism →
futurejournalismproject:
Adam Penenberg writes at Fast Company that Amazon’s erotica ebook section is rife with plagiarized works. Seems “authors” are simply cutting and pasting stories found elsewhere (such as from Literotica), putting pen names on the titles and passing them off as their own.
Via Fast Company:
Writing a book is hard. All those torturous hours an author has to spend...
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“Many a reader will have no time for this; William Gass or Sir Thomas Browne may...”
– Pico Iyer, “The point of the long and winding sentence”
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Rappler CEO Maria Ressa implies blogger guilty of...
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“…there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the...”
– Oscar Wilde, “The Critic as Artist”
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Stanzas from Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks)
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God for these two insomnias! And the difference between them. * The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. * We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We...
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Other Lives And Dimensions And Finally A Love Poem...
My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers of my palms tell me so. Never argue with rivers. Never expect your lives to finish at the same time. I think praying, I think clapping is how hands mourn. I think staying up and waiting for paintings to sigh is science. In another dimension this is exactly what’s happening, it’s what they write grants...
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“The skin is composed of two main parts: the dermis and the epidermis.
Odd to...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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[Pro Pinoy] CSC bares seemingly contradictory... →
Former National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Executive Director Malou Jacob was removed from her post and replaced by an Officer-in-Charge while she was out of the country on official business, following a Civil Service Commission (CSC) notice that it was disapproving the renewal of her temporary appointment.
Upon being queried via e-mail about this decision, Director Azucena ...
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My initial take on the Rappler-Corona-UST...
The Rappler story points out that Corona said he finished his Ph.D. in five years, while UST said he finished it in seven. That may be where the “lying” allegation came from.
That said, I don’t agree with how Rappler framed this story. If Vitug et al. had wanted to highlight Corona’s role in the situation, particularly given that he has supposedly fudged his academic record in ...
December 2011
20 posts
True Love - Wislawa Szymborska
True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the world get from two people who exist in a world of their own? Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it had to happen this way—in reward for what? For nothing. The light descends from nowhere. Why on these two and not on others? Doesn’t this outrage justice? Yes it...
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The Grammar of Light - Carol Ann Duffy
Even barely enough light to find a mouth, and bless both with a meaningless O, teaches, spells out. The way a curtain opened at night lets in neon, or moon, or a car’s hasty glance, and paints for a moment someone you love, pierces. And so many mornings to learn; some when the day is wrung from damp, grey skies and rooms come on for breakfast in the town you are leaving early. The way a...
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Prayer - Francisco Arcellana
Close all open things, Lord. Open all closed things. All those who have long received, let them give. All those who have long given, let them receive. All those too long apart, let them come together. All those too long together, sunder them. Let the wise be fools for once, Lord, And let the...
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Wanted : a more inclusive disaster response -...
Wanted : a more inclusive disaster response
(notes on my visit to Iligan City, 24-26 December 2011)
Iligan City was my base for my Ph.D. fieldwork and I stayed there from April to October this year. My stay in Iligan City was nothing but good, and thus when I watched news of destruction wrought by tropical storm Sendong (Washi) to lives and properties, I just felt I had to be back ...
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What's Old is New, and Vice Versa →
futurejournalismproject:
The Economist explores social networking history with a look at Martin Luther and the Reformation. The general takeaway: “Five centuries before Facebook and the Arab spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation.”
Interesting is the how Luther’s “95 Theses” and other pamphlets spread throughout Germany and Europe:
The media environment that Luther had shown...