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Backstage Hamlet
Feb 13, ’10
9:37 PM
The show closes with Sunday’s matinee, it was a good run.
More pictures here.
The Chicken-yard Philosopher
Feb 12, ’10
7:00 PM
This is a fun article on the pop philosophy of raising chickens.
Watching chickens is a very old human pastime, and the forerunner of psychology, sociology and management theory. Sometimes understanding yourself can be made easier by projection on to others. Watching chickens helps us understand human motivations and interactions, which is doubtless why so many words and phrases in common parlance are redolent of the hen yard: “pecking order”, “cockiness”, “ruffling somebody’s feathers”, “taking somebody under your wing”, “fussing like a mother hen”, “strutting”, a “bantamweight fighter”, “clipping someone’s wings”, “beady eyes”, “chicks”, “to crow”, “to flock”, “get in a flap”, “nest eggs” and “preening”.
For people who’ve spent some time around chickens a lot of what’s in this essay will ring true.
Momus, No Momus
Feb 10, ’10
2:48 PM
One of my favorite blog authors posted the final entry to his LiveJournal account today. The inspired musician and artist who calls himself Momus (after the Greek god of mockery and satire and overly mean criticism) announced earlier this year that he had planned to call it quits on the eve of his 50th birthday and today was it. He’s not completely dropped off the face of the internet however,
3. Where can we find out what you’re up to, post-blog? From my “personal digital assistant” Maria Wolonski, who announces my engagements in the charming, ringing tones of a talking clock. From the Momus concerts page on LastFM. From my Flickr page and my two YouTube accounts, momasu and bookofjokes . I may even revive my old website (1995-2003), imomus.com.
He’s been blogging in one way or another for over a decade and I’ve been reading his LiveJournal since it opened in 2004. (Matt Brehe told me about him, I think.) The subject of his daily essays range widely but have mostly to do with culture, art, or Momus himself. Often it’s a combination of all three.
I’ll miss him!