Seth Roberts, maestro of the quantified self, professor, author, and blogger, died suddenly this past weekend. I never met him in person, but his work-- and his blog, especially-- were a magnificent inspiration to me, and to so many others. Mark Frauenfelder, founder of Boing Boing and editor of Cool Tools, posted a video of Seth Roberts talking about...
Literally Short Film Awards
For its 10th anniversary, Literal Magazine is holding a short film contest. I am a big, big fan of Literal. Having edited my own literary magazine, Tameme, for a mere 3 issues, I stand in awe of all that editor Rose Mary Salum and her team have accomplished--...
Donna Schwenk's Cultured Food Life
Screenshot from Donna Schwenk's videofeatured on her home pagewww.culturedfoodlife.comHow to culture vegetables? How to make Kefir? An excellent, very informative website with an on-line store and a free ebook and more is Donna Schwenk's Cultured Food Life. I found her...
Cyberflanerie: Solveig Eggerz in Ireland, Poodle Skirts, Chicken Training, Lyme Disease, Financial Bloggers to Save the World, Etc.
Solveig Eggerz, one of my favorite writers, is offering a workshop June 7-13, 2014 in Ireland. Check it out on her workshop page.(P.S. Listen in anytime to my interview with Eggerz here.)Amuse-gueule du jour: The Page Turner ( a two minute video)Whodathunk? Juli Lynn Charlot,...
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (World Heritage Site in Canada)
Check out the 360 view video, very amazing and beautiful.screenshot from the 360 view ofHead-Smashed-In Buffalo JumpWorld Heritage S...
The End of the Sherry by Bruce Berger
Blue collar and provincial Puerto Real in the police state that was Franco's Spain might seem an unlikely venue for an amusing, eccentric, and very sensitive artist's memoir. A graduate of Yale and a grad school drop out, pianist and writer Bruce Berger's whole life seems unlikely,...
Cyberflanerie: Mesmerically Mesmeric Edition
Re: Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution. One of the more interesting aspects for me in going through Francisco I. Madero's personal library was the large number of books on mesmerism and, related to that, magnetic healing and hypnotism. In his Spiritist Manual,...
Looking at Mexico in New Ways: An Interview with John Tutino
John Tutino says, "The whole big picture of where we thought Mexico fit in the world is somewhere between wrong and mythical."Marfa Mondays is back… put your seat belts on for this one hour in-depth interview with John Tutino, professor of History at Georgetown University...
