Just Another Cyber Monday

Nothing says "Happy Anniversary" like a big bowl of melted cheese, not to mention metal skewers.  Elaine and I made it to three years of being a legal and state-certified couple yesterday.  We celebrated with some fondue the night before, but then forgot that yesterday was our anniversary until about midday.  I blame the undercooked meat for my poor memory. Hope everyone else enjoyed our anniversary.  Now these:

The Chicago Tribune takes a look at the seemingly ever-changing definition of "the book" in our electronic culture:

The idea of the book as an inert entity is gradually giving way to the idea of the book as a fluid, formless repository for an ever-changing variety of words and ideas by a constantly modified cast of writers.

One medium that seems to be invading on "the book's" territory, according to the experts, is the blog.  "Blogs are pretty significant. It's a popular art form. It's folk art -- it has the inconsistency, but also the vigor and energy, of good folk art. It's very powerful," says William J. Mitchell, head of the Media Arts and Sciences program at MIT.

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Even though it isn't mentioned in the movie Capote, Monroeville, Alabama, where Truman Capote lived for a short time in his teens and where he met Harper Lee, who still lives there to this day, is taking pride in being the hometown of two of the most famous literary celebrities in the state's history. 

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Speaking of Southern writers, Oxford, Mississippi's mayor--and owner of the amazing Square Books--provides a list  of some of the essential books in the Southern literary canon.

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If you're in the Santa Barbara area this week, you might want to check out the Sartre Centennial Celebration at the UCSB campus:

The celebration will feature a library display showcasing original Sartre manuscripts, a colloquium of renowned international figures, a staged reading of Sartre's play No Exit (“Hell is other people”), and a jazz concert starring two hot local ensembles and a globetrotting French trumpeter.

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Fans of Sylvia Plath are clamoring for a monument to be erected in her honor at her alma mater, Smith College.  [Tasteless commentary deleted.]

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Try your luck at the Globe & Mail's "Great Canadian Literary Quiz" and you could win yourself a nice prize.  I think I would have better luck answering questions about Quantum Physics.

Comments

[TJ]

You've got to respect a town that elects a bookseller as its mayor. Nice to see a book of poems make the list, too.

[Geoff]

I had forgotten your anniversary was so close to ours. Congratulations to you and Elaine!

[Ed]

Hurray. And here's to at least thirty more years.

[Kurt Brown -- Saint Ram Bone]

I would like someone to contact with the name of a young woman who predicted her own death in 1975 in Monroeville Alabama.

The truck she was in flipped and several teenagers died. One was in the bed, and she was in the cab.

Her first name was Kelly and she was a student at Monroeville High School in the ninth grade there while I was there for a short duration.

My father is from there and you can see his gravestone at the Old Salem Baptist Church. It is hot as hell so he is next to the A/C unit. He must falled down before he got inside the church. They all did.

I want Kelly's last name. She predicted my death was going to be at age 44. I was almost hit by a meteorite near Braman Oklahoma almost at the hour of my birthday.

My life has been Hell. She called me to go with her that Saturday morning. I was listening to somebody akin to Deep Purple or Ozzy Osbourne and poking around grave stones with some punk neighbor kid. After the death, I never saw that kid again. The mother said, swoop. That kid was out of there and I felt no more need to hang around. I have drifted ever since blowing my trumpet or playing with one and my pistol whipped guitar.

Kurt Brown, alias Saint Ram Bone, founder of Mobile Audit Club.

I ordered all of my brown family up to help me enter the government in Old Salem on the evening of April 26, 2007. The moon was half-full.

[Kurt Brown -- Saint Ram Bone]

My father killed a pet mockingbird with a board while working on an old building there. The bird was his pet.

Could it be, the beginning of the Mockingbird legend?

I have posted many stories about the mockingbird in my music on the home grown music page of my website at Mobile Audit Club

It is more artsy video with real life footage of being batten or tossed about by the closed door government in Mobile Alabama.

The grass smells sweet around Atmore in Spring after a rain, like flowers. Why is there a prison there?

http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/democracyordeath/HOME_GROWN_MUSIC.htm

[Kurt Brown -- Saint Ram Bone]

Correction, it was a pet Blue Jay, I think. See the Video, Whip Or Will Pea You Jack

[Kurt Brown -- Saint Ram Bone]

A PERSONAL NOTE TO SENATOR McCAIN of Arizona. Their Chapter 36 law denoted on my website at Mobile Audit Club says they are exempt from legal claims in relation to their forced injections under paragraphs delineated at Mobile Audit Club..

If I am not paid for the forced injections of 2004, after working as a bank examiner who endured an holocaust and can attest to the likely murder of a federal employee and hot on the trail of Sheriff Jack "Snatch" Tillman of Mobile Alabama, thief at large, and termed Snatch The Fairy Possum and whistled to the tune of Puff, The Magic Dragon on Love Line 5 of Mobile Audit Club.

I want $800 Billion Dollars or my job back as a federal bank examiner, but at the Treasury on the Bank of America Audit Team. Or I want the Treasury shut down and their syndicate forebear, the National Treasury Employees Union, or our guts to the sky, Kelly is half way there, and so AM I>

[Kurt Brown -- Saint Ram Bone]

I AM SERIOUS. I WANT KELLY'S LAST NAME.

KURT BROWN -- SAINT RAM BONE

OR WWIV aka W's wives