February 2012
5 posts
1 tag
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Bostonia! (November, 2012)
Henry: Help, help!
Sam: My God, Tinguely, what are you doing? What are you trying to do? What are you going to do?
Tinguely: The city needs more land area. Thus I am going to fill the Mill Pond with the top of Beacon Hill. Two, I am going to fill the Back Bay with sand, from Needham, Mass. Thirdly, I am going to extend Boston out into the harbour by means of docks.
Henry: O brave ambition!
Sam: And see how he proceeds, ah mighty Tinguely!
Threat
X: Is that a threat?
Y: ... Yes, that's a threat. What the hell else is it? God. Are you fucking kidding me?
January 2012
2 posts
W. W. Norton: [Ray Hill] came out to his family... →
wwnorton:
[Ray Hill] came out to his family when he was eighteen. His mother took a long drag from her cigarette and a sip of her coffee and said, “Well, that’s a relief.” “What?” he asked. Late 1950s Houston was not a tolerant time and place for homosexuals, especially in the blue-collar, religiously…
November 2011
2 posts
Bouffées d’affadissement →
“Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn’t occur to people—or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original. Instead, a…
October 2011
6 posts
5 tags
How to Write an Important Novel
wwnorton:
“But can you?”
“Can I what?”
“Write an important novel.”
“Of course I can. All you have to do is cut out the plot and shove in plenty of misery.”
-P.G. Wodehouse, Ice in the Bedroom
La critique sentimentale →
My search for literary representation mostly involves a lot of waiting, and waiting, and rejections on geographical or organisational basis, and more of the waiting kind, etc. etc. But last week,…
Favoured a tweet by @OrsmNick →
“There’s no point in writing on a memo pad if you forget to look at it later…”
September 2011
6 posts
List: Literary Influences →
Harold Pinter, Betrayal
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love
Anton Chekhov, A Marriage Proposal
Samuel Beckett, En attendant Godot
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis clos
Gustave Flaubert,
List: [blanks] I Hate →
uneven numbers, except five, with special attention to three;
pottery;
people who do not appreciate dark humour;
concrete cities;
being given gifts;
throwing myself into projects based on…
4 tags
Eddie Murphy is hosting 84th Academy Awards →
Academy Awards
And so the complaining can begin: “Eddie Murphy to Host 84th Academy Awards” (AMPAS).
2010 in Film: The Best-of Edition
Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards
Normal service suspended: →
I’m a difficult person, and I know it. Oftentimes, I annoy, irritate, frustrate, and wreck myself with my own behaviour, thoughts, and tendencies to worry about everything-and-nothing. It can take…
August 2011
7 posts
“Do goats cry, by the way?” →
“What! Not whom! What! With what!”
— Stevie in Edward Albee’s The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia?1
(The fact that I wanted to write, “Still one of my all-time favourites,” makes me feel old….
10 tags
1 tag
6 done, 4 to go. →
Four to go …
Six episode drafts done; four to go. Now if only I could stick to the season outline for once …
It’s a start.
Brewing.
Sci-fi Readiness
“The Prince of…
July 2011
2 posts
It’s a start. →
And here I am again, trying to set up a project that is way too big for me.
I like to dream big, do a lot of exhausting pre-production, and then give up because I realise…
June 2011
1 post
Emma Bovary’s flushed cheeks remembered →
Siri Hustvedt, in this year’s issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (No. 49), has written an excellent piece on reading and, most importantly, remembering literature.1 From…
March 2011
4 posts
Dame Elizabeth →
A legend with talent, beauty, and heart.
Film ratings [15/16]
A (Brief) Review of “Femme Fatale” (With Very... →
In short: I adore it.
Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale1
No.
Song
Stars
01.
Hold It Against Me
02.
Till the World Ends
03.
Inside Out
…
Thirsty →
And I’m back to posting quotes.1
“Another thirst had come upon him: the thirst for women, for luxury, for everything that life in Paris implies.”2
— Flaubert, L’Éducation…
February 2011
2 posts
“The King’s Speech,” Best Picture of 2010 →
Congratulations, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin for The King’s Speech.
2010 in Film: The Best-of Edition
2009 in Film: The Best-of Edition
Nominees for the 83rd Academy…
2010 in Film: The Best-of Edition →
As last year, I only just finished watching all of the Best Picture nominees.1 Since I haven’t missed a single Academy Awards broadcast in years, and taking into account that watching the…
January 2011
1 post
Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards →
83rd Academy Awards
I need to get my act together before the Academy Awards, but for now, I’m just going to post the link to the nominees on the AMPAS website, while cheering for
December 2010
1 post
Playing the Medical Ponies →
“Borden, who lived in the seventeenth century, and was a man of keen intelligence, tells us of a monk he knew, who practised bloodletting to an unlimited extent. After three bleedings, he would…
October 2010
3 posts
Meaning is dead. →
What’s x? Nobody knows. They only have y. (But not really. We do though. (That’s what we think, at least.)) … Who’s we? We is z.
The Meaning of “Heaven forfend!”
The Intentional…
St Gabriel: "The show will open on April 21,... →
Heaven forfend!, a new play by Remy L. Overkempe, performed by VU University Amsterdam’s FUNEST, will open at CREA Theater in Amsterdam on April 21, 2011. The limited run will feature three…
The Intentional Fallacy →
After four years of this:
“How can you defend the concept of intentional fallacy? You need to be familiar with the author’s life and knowledgeable about the author’s intention to come to a…
September 2010
1 post
“Rabbit Hole” →
I usually do not post videos, but I am really looking forward to seeing the motion picture adaptation of Rabbit Hole, with Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, and, you know,…
August 2010
2 posts
My 2010–2011 television schedule →
I watch a lot of television for someone who doesn’t watch television but only watches television series as standalone programs which totally doesn’t count as watching television because you’re…
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Why can't I own Canadians?
ericgrant:
In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.
The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, written by a University of Virginia professor. Dear Dr. Laura: Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s Law. I have...
July 2010
1 post
Curtain! →
Great show, though the stage design could’ve been better. (Vorhang auf by Kersten A. Riechers)
I cannot wait till my big debut. It’s still months away, but when rehearsals start…
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
The Meaning of “Heaven forfend!” →
The last couple of weeks the question, “What’s your play about?” came up about a million times. It’s not an odd question, and I guess it is a legitimised one to ask when one wants to know more about…
April 2010
4 posts
Incredibly-off-Broadway →
Ever wondered, “Hey, that insaneness that is Remy, I would love to see that in play form?” No? … Please go away then. Yes? Well, thankfully your wish came true!
Why shouldn’t you…
atebits: An Amazing Ride →
Once upon a time I wanted a better Twitter app for my iPhone, so I wrote one. My goal was to make something simple, beautiful, and intuitive. It’s been a wild ride since 1.0, and over the last year and a half Tweetie has gone from a no-name app from a little known software company to an app hailed…