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Bethany Brings us Top Five “Things I Do Not Understand from an Evolutionary Perspective”
Any evolutionary biologists out there? Maybe you can help.
Full StoryTop Five Things I Miss That Appear in the Woody Allen Movie Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris recently surpassed the box office record (not adjusted for inflation) of his previous box office topper, Hannah and Her Sisters, as well as being nominated for best picture. So I recently rewatched Hannah and Her Sisters, and wow, does it seem a long time ago (it came out in 1986!). So here are my top five things I saw in that movie that I miss.
Full StoryTop Five Science Fiction Figures who Died in 2011
There were an unusual number of deaths of important science fiction/fantasy figures this past year. Here are the top five.
Full StoryWitness the Death of Mercury Radio Theater (with Promo and Movie Featuring Ernest Hilbert)!
Unfortunately I’ll be in LA this night, but I’ll be up on the big screen over the band! Check out the video.
Full StoryErnest Hilbert Name-Checked in TLS
Odd to see your name in print when you’re not expecting it.
Full StoryTop Five Goofy Covers of Sir Mix a Lot’s “Baby Got Back”
“My anaconda don’t want none / Unless you’ve got buns, hun.”
Full StoryErnest Hilbert’s Introduction to Four Charles Dickens Novels, Issued in the Canterbury Classics Series
Yeah, you might even see me in Sam’s Club.
Full StoryTop Five (Literal) Masks People have Worn to Conceal Themselves for Political Purposes
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
Full StoryGet Ready to Wwwaaaaaste Some Tiiiiiiiiiime: 25 More of the Most Interesting Wikipedia Pages
Yeah, you thought you were going to get some work done today . . .
Full StoryPoe for kids? You bet!
Kids are never too young to hear rich language. I recently came across a wonderful series of books called “Poetry for Young People.” The series devotes one book to each poet. There is a mini biography of the poet, a small introductory paragraph about each poem, definitions of less common words and variations, as well as [...]
Full StoryTop Five Fun Facts about Kim Jong Il
There are many online lists detailing weird things about Kim Jong-Il, but they generally miss lesser known, but equally fascinating facts about the dear leader. I have a strange fascination with North Korea, so when Kim died, I took considerable interest in what went on and combed for lesser-known factoids. Here they are.
Full Story“Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam” by Rob Whitworth
“Everyone who has visited Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam knows part of the magic (love it or hate it) is in the traffic. Ever since I first set foot in HCMC I have been captivated by the cities energy. Saigon is a city on the move unlike anything I have experienced before which I wanted to capture and share.”
Full StoryBethany’s Top Five Appalling Things the State of Arizona has Done Recently
Hey, Arizona, what’s up?
Full StoryTop Five Random Facts about Newt Gingrich
Some things you might like to know about the man who may be president.
Full Story“A Modern Herbal: Juglans Nigra” by Amy Glynn Greacen
Amy Glynn Greacen is a poet, novelist, and food writer. She was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and educated at Mount Holyoke college and Lancaster University, England. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The New Criterion, Southern Poetry Review, The Potomac Review and The Best American Poetry 2010. She lives near San Francisco with her family.
Full Story“Si Non Te Veo Feliche Morte” (“If I Don’t Ever See You, Die Happy”)
One of my favorite word sites, savethewords.org, has gone dark just like many of the obscure and archaic words that it tried to save . . .
Full Story“In the Dead Air” by Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, England. He is the author of several collections of poems, including Out of the Rain (1992), for which he received a Somerset Maugham Award; Rest for the Wicked (1995), which was short-listed for both the Whitbread Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize; and The Breakage (1998), which was short-listed for both the T.S. Eliot and the Forward Poetry (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) prizes. Maxwell lives in London.
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“I have been studying how I may compare / This prison where I live unto the world”: David Yezzi Recites Richard II’s Soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Richard II, V.5
David Yezzi, poet, critic, editor, librettist, playwright, and trained Shakespearean actor, takes on one of the great soliloquies and delivers with astounding power.
Full StorySo You Think You Got Game? Try This!
BTW: I used to be just a regular E-Verser like you . . . then I took an arrow to the knee.
Full Story“On the Corner” by Ernest Hilbert
Edinburgh’s oldest literary journal and released three times a year, The Edinburgh Review has been transforming the critical landscape since 1802. Issue 133 features poetry by Paul Muldoon, Ernest Hilbert, Jen Hadfield, David Wheatley and many more!
Full StoryTop Five Far-Fetched Infidelity Excuses
When famous folks get caught in “compromising positions,” they often explain that nothing is what it seems to be, or that their actions weren’t really improper for some reason. Here are five notorious ones they’ve tried on us recently. Do they really think we’re that dumb? Wait, don’t answer.
Full StoryThe Future is Almost Here! Top Five Near-Futures, Hollywood Edition
It’s 2012 (can you believe it?) and the future is upon us! Nineteen Eighty-Four, Space 1999, 2001: A Space Odyssey, its sequel, 2010, the late 20th-century World War III predicted in Star Trek, all are more-or-less distant memories, and none came to pass. But some of the past’s futures are still in the future! Let’s check on them and see if we’re on schedule.
Full StoryTop Five Things Disappearing from the Real World Only to Live On Virtually
Not to mention tablets, pads, and notebooks. Watch out, mice! You’re next!
Full StoryE-Verser Cynthia Reports from the Front Lines of the No Pants Subway Ride
E-Verse correspondent Cynthia sends in some photos from the 2012 No Pants Subway Ride, NYC edition.
Full Story“Flatirons” by David Yezzi
David Yezzi’s books of poetry are Sad Is Eros and The Hidden Model. His libretto for a chamber opera by David Conte, Firebird Motel, received its world premiere in 2003 and was released on CD by Arsis in 2007. His poems and criticism have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, The Best American Poetry 2006, and elsewhere. He is executive editor of the New Criterion.
Full Story“Earth: Time Lapse View from Space, Flyover, NASA, ISS” by Michael König
Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km.
Full Story“You Play Dean and I’ll Play Sal”: Jack Kerouac Writes to Marlon Brando Urging Him to Make a Movie of On the Road
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in.
Full Story“Bedroom Eyes” by Dum Dum Girls
Write about what you know. That’s what they say. But that’s a lot easier said than done when what you know is very, very difficult to bear. That was the challenge Dum Dum Girls’ leader Dee Dee faced when writing the songs for the band’s moving second album Only in Dreams. “The first record was basically the first songs I’d ever written,” says Dee Dee, “and I was thinking nostalgically about being a teenager. This record, it was pretty much impossible not to write about very recent, very real things.”
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