December 2nd, 2009 / 12:56 pm
 Random

Here’s Some Stuff That’s Out There

The Rumpus has an interview with Eileen Myles!

Ange Mlinko on Rilke at The Nation.

There’s a new issue of Mike Topp’s Stuyvesant Bee. (pdf download)

Here’s Tolstoy’s epilogue to The Kreutzer Sonata. I just read that story for the first time, and thought it was brilliant how vividly Tolstoy detailed the main character’s delusions, obsessions, and psychosis. Then I discovered that Tolstoy actually meant the story as a kind of polemic, and that his character’s deranged views were actually delivered in earnest, being more or less Tolstoy’s own. Sigh.

Slate’s got a new Robert Pinsky column, on Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson, and how they were complainers.

Also, here is a Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time walkthru from IGN.com. A couple months ago I found an old Zelda cartridge and started playing a saved game I left unfinished 12 or 13 years ago. I have completed all the temples for adult Link (without the walkthru, btw) and am now trying to figure out which 2 of the 4 bottle quests I have already completed, and which still need doing, because I want to go into Ganon’s Castle fully prepared. Oh fuck, I also need ice arrows. Eesh.

16 Comments

  1. December 2nd, 2009 / 5:13 pm rachel—

      “I just read that story for the first time, and thought it was brilliant how vividly Tolstoy detailed the main character’s delusions, obsessions, and psychosis. Then I discovered that Tolstoy actually meant the story as a kind of polemic, and that his character’s deranged views were actually delivered in earnest, being more or less Tolstoy’s own. Sigh.”

      Sounds like somebody hasn’t been reading their Andrea Dworkin!

  2. December 2nd, 2009 / 1:13 pm rachel—

      “I just read that story for the first time, and thought it was brilliant how vividly Tolstoy detailed the main character’s delusions, obsessions, and psychosis. Then I discovered that Tolstoy actually meant the story as a kind of polemic, and that his character’s deranged views were actually delivered in earnest, being more or less Tolstoy’s own. Sigh.”

      Sounds like somebody hasn’t been reading their Andrea Dworkin!

  3. December 2nd, 2009 / 5:55 pm Adam Humphreys—

      love zelda (so scary!)

  4. December 2nd, 2009 / 1:55 pm Adam Humphreys—

      love zelda (so scary!)

  5. December 2nd, 2009 / 6:48 pm Drew—

      Zelda cereal?

  6. December 2nd, 2009 / 2:48 pm Drew—

      Zelda cereal?

  7. December 2nd, 2009 / 7:54 pm Jason Spidle—

      Volume 1 of Stuyvesant Bee is the best.

  8. December 2nd, 2009 / 3:54 pm Jason Spidle—

      Volume 1 of Stuyvesant Bee is the best.

  9. December 2nd, 2009 / 9:04 pm Ken Baumann—

      Ice arrows are really hard to get, if I remember correctly.

  10. December 2nd, 2009 / 5:04 pm Ken Baumann—

      Ice arrows are really hard to get, if I remember correctly.

  11. December 2nd, 2009 / 9:15 pm Ben White—

      Don’t forget to get the Biggoron Sword.

  12. December 2nd, 2009 / 5:15 pm Ben White—

      Don’t forget to get the Biggoron Sword.

  13. December 2nd, 2009 / 10:35 pm EC—

      Herrick’s lyrics are great fun — he’s quite the erotomaniac with garlanded frolicking milkmaids and so forth, plus a touch of lingerie fetishism (“Whenas in silks my Julia goes…”)

  14. December 2nd, 2009 / 6:35 pm EC—

      Herrick’s lyrics are great fun — he’s quite the erotomaniac with garlanded frolicking milkmaids and so forth, plus a touch of lingerie fetishism (“Whenas in silks my Julia goes…”)

  15. December 2nd, 2009 / 11:53 pm Dean—

      i played ocarina of time during those crucial formative years. i consider it one of the main artistic influences of my life. the others are: mormonism, wg sebald, alan moore, bolaño, and lsd. is this stupid, or am i just stupid?

  16. December 2nd, 2009 / 7:53 pm Dean—

      i played ocarina of time during those crucial formative years. i consider it one of the main artistic influences of my life. the others are: mormonism, wg sebald, alan moore, bolaño, and lsd. is this stupid, or am i just stupid?