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 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:17:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unexpected Literary References in Pop Culture Blogging: Part Deux Governor Blago gets literary on us at his post-impeachment press conference:

He closed his remarks by quoting from “Ulysses,” a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

“We are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven; that which we are,…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/01/09/unexpected-literary-references-in-pop-culture-blogging-part-deux/ Unexpected Literary References in Pop Culture Watch The Vulture runs down the seven most bizarre moments from the People’s Choice Awards held January 7th.  Not a distinguished list (nor even a very good one, for that matter), but their number one moment–Jay Mohr’s acceptance speech for Gary’s Unmarried–caught…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/01/08/unexpected-literary-references-in-pop-culture-watch/ Monday Morning Imaginary Place Pumpkin Islands: an archipelago in the north Atlantic, so called because of the enormous pumpkins that grow here, sometimes as large as seventy cubic feet. The inhabitants put them out to dry, remove the insides and use the fruit as…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/01/05/monday-morning-imaginary-place/ Buy Real Estate in an Imaginary Place: A Weekly Series The dust is clearing a bit for me after the mad scramble of holiday traveling (my trip specifically involved icy stretches of Iowa highway in a rental car bearing tiny mountains of presents given to my one-year-old son). In getting…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/12/29/buy-real-estate-in-an-imaginary-place-a-weekly-series/ Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant Since my last comments about reruns of Dynasty in the U.S. Senate, Caroline Kennedy has not only expressed interest in the Senate seat vacated by HRC, but is starting to clear the field with political anglings and manueverings of various kinds…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/12/18/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant/ The internet in the age of montaigne In the November Issue of The Atlantic, blogging kingpin Andrew Sullivan puts to words the ineffable pleasure–and embarrassing self-exposure–of blogging. He lands on several beautiful formulations of the attraction: the “instantly public” diary form, participation in the “online conversation of humankind,”…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/12/16/the-internet-in-the-age-of-montaigne/ another dead kennedy offers advice to obama

Jello Biafra publishes an open letter to Barack Obama that expresses healthy skepticism, comprehensive coverage of the issues, and gratuitous references to the Pope-mobile, the Boston Tea Party, Wesley Willis and the Eraserhead baby.  But, really, he’s all amped up about…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/12/16/another-dead-kennedy-offers-advice-to-obama/ Dynasty or Nanny State?

While few political responsibilities strike me as absolutist and undemocratic as that of a governor appointing a U.S. Senator to office in the case of a vacant Senate seat, the rank process has smelt to heaven in all three post-election…

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Selling books is all about timing. Or at least, that’s what the capitalists trying to make book selling into a profitable market would have you believe.  Now that Prez W has led America into de facto socialism, it may come…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2008/11/26/read-marx-its-the-wicker-chairs/ Re:Count, Minnesota Edition

P’r'aps only political junkies and Gopher State denizens are paying attention anymore, but Minnesota’s Senatorial race recount has been steadily moving forward for the past couple of weeks. Despite the fact that county volunteers are nearing completion of manually reviewing…

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