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11-11-11: Ulysses on the Buses

By Tom Lennon ⋅ April 9, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Stateless, scrawny James Joyce and his mistressmusewife, Nora Barnacle, were waiting for a number eleven omnibus in the Perry Barr district of Birmingham. It was twenty-six days, five months and one hundred and four years after 16th June 1904, although they didn’t necessarily spend all that time waiting for a bus. At what precise location [...]

Read Yourself RAW

By Tom Lennon ⋅ March 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m currently re-reading – for the umpteenth time, I might add – the great (and, sadly, late) Robert Anton Wilson’s first Cosmic Trigger book. While the title might seem a tad hokey and dated (it was written in 1977), the book itself remains fiendishly clever, gleefully provocative and side-splittingly funny. Like most of RAWs oeuvre, [...]

By Tom Lennon ⋅ February 2, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

I wouldn’t normally do this sort of thing, but this evening I’ve been reading The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover by the country singer, humourist, crime novelist, politician and self-appointed cigar czar Kinky Friedman and I just had to share the following gem: ‘It is a rather tedious fact of life that most of [...]

"All that is, is metaphor"

By Tom Lennon ⋅ October 15, 2008 ⋅ One comment

From YouTube, a condensed version of Robert Anton Wilson’s Maybe Logic DVD: “RAW talks about the sanity of using maybe, E-Prime (the english language without IS or Being), imprinting and conditioning, optimism, awakening and how ‘the map is not the territory‘.” Well, whaddaya know. I didn’t even know there was a Maybe Logic DVD, let [...]

Moby Dickheads

By Tom Lennon ⋅ September 23, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

From Variety: Universal Pictures has made a splashy preemptive buy of “Moby Dick”, a reimagining of the Herman Mellville whale tale that Timur Bekmambetov (“Wanted”) will direct. Studio paid high six figures to Adam Cooper and Bill Collage to pen the screenplay. The writers revere Melville’s original text, but their graphic novel-style version will change [...]

Books, etc

By Tom Lennon ⋅ June 13, 2008 ⋅ One comment

I don’t normally do these things, but here’s a book meme I nabbed from Rol. The rules are simple: highlight in bold the books you’ve read, bold-and-italicize the books you’d like to read again and put a line through the books you started-but-never-managed-to-finish. Whatever’s left are books you haven’t read. Here goes: * Jonathan Strange [...]