digital emunction » Joel Calahan http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Storming Trinity Hall from Chicago A portfolio of recent translations of mine from the Italian is featured in the special Translation issue of Cambridge Literary Review.

The selection is titled “Four Genovese Poets,” and contains an excerpt from Laborintus by Edoardo Sanguineti, the…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/22/storming-trinity-hall-from-chicago/ Found Poetry: World Cup Edition By Martin Tyler and Ally McCoist, with Luke Dempsey, from today’s Brazil-North Korea group stage match. Just as much dry wit as real found poetry, but with more irrational exuberance and elation.

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/15/found-poetry-world-cup-edition/ The Life of Neda Agha-Soltan? Via The Lede, Iran’s state-sponsored Press TV seeks to prove that the iconic death of protester Neda Agha-Soltan happened just like the plot of one of the worst movies of the decade:

The conspiracy theory presented

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/01/07/the-life-of-neda-agha-soltan/ WTF to DFW on SWE I’m a bit late tracking this one, but former David Foster Wallace student Amy McDaniel (and, incidentally, a college classmate of my own) has published a grammar quiz at HTMLGIANT that the late master once presented to students…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/12/29/wtf-to-dfw-on-swe/ The Country That Roared leobelgicus1

A halfway imaginary place? Courtesy of Strange Maps, behold the Leo Belgicus:

The Leo Belgicus symbolised a nation that never was – a Netherlands that also was a Belgium, and covered the territory of both

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/12/06/the-country-that-roared/ Misattribution of the Year From Sarah Palin’s tome on the fugitive lifestyle, a chapter epigram attributed to John Wooden:

Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/11/30/misattribution-of-the-year/ Guest Post: Ben Tausig on Glossolalia and Music Criticism A guest post by Ben Tausig.

I. The enterprise of writing about music/sound has recently entered an awkward stage, one of those moments when technological developments make us want to retreat to old habits, but when it nevertheless becomes obvious…

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First the term “tea bagging” invaded living rooms on the lips of oblivious newscasters, who didn’t know half their audience was tied in fits of giggles. Now, Erick Erickson of Red State exercises more First Amendment rights…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/14/pataphorical-protests/ Little Critic Goes to the Art Institute The art critic Ezra North Calahan (2007-) has been making quite an uproar around the local scene, quickly becoming the center of attention and taste in this writer’s household. Recently, he has become known as quite a vocal food critic,…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/11/little-critic-goes-to-the-art-institute/ Weird Vibrations Many of you will recognize Ben Tausig’s work, even if you don’t recall his name. Ben is the editor of the Inkwell, a feature that appears each week in many of the major alt-weeklies in the US, including the…

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