I just ordered the book Washington: City and Capital published by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. The book was the Washington, D.C. edition of a series of books on each state published by the WPA. Although supposedly a guide, at 1,140 pages there’s clearly quite a bit else that made it […]
links for 2006-02-23
“Dear DCist: Please respect Creative Commons licenses” A local blogger objects to DCist using photos with “noncommercial” licenses on Flickr. “Blogs to Riches” Elizabeth Spiers to launch a Wall Street Blog
Thomas Pynchon on D.C.
“Downstairs, Meatball Mulligan’s lease-breaking party was moving into its 40th hour.” Thus begins Thomas Pynchon’s short story “Entropy,” which I discovered leafing through a collection of his early work that I picked up at a booksale the other day. To me, the best part about this story is not the first line — although I […]
links for 2006-02-21
Detroit Metrotimes 2000 Newshit Article on Michigamua Short article about the tower occupation with a photo of members in the “Wigwam” (tags: michigamua Michigan” activism wigwam) U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review Government agencies are re-classifying public documents at the National Archives. (tags: secrecy politics)
links for 2006-02-20
Petition Spot – Preserve AATA Bus Service to Ypsilanti Ann Arbor area bus service considering cutting service to neighborhing city. (tags: buses politics activism petition) DC Voting Rights – Stamp Act Congress DC group is trying to build support for voting rights for the District by stamping money. (tags: DC politics)
Review: The Crying of Lot 49
Ok, I lied. I’m not going to try my hand at a review of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, mostly because Amazon.com already has 155 of them. Instead I thought I’d just note a couple thoughts on it. I was inspired to re-read it after I picked up a copy of a book […]
More Internetty Goodness
I finally hooked together my del.icio.us account with this blog so each day it will post any links I post to that service for the day. We’ll see how it goes. Scott tried this and stopped because it was taking over his blog. Since I’m a less habitual user of del.icio.us I’m not worried about […]