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Muldoon to be New Yorker Poetry Editor

Paul Muldoon attacks Strat
After 17 years as poetry editor of the New Yorker, Alice Quinn is stepping down to work on the journals of Elizabeth Bishop. Stepping up will be Irish-born Pulitzer-winning poet and Warren Zevon collaborator, Paul Muldoon.

Amongst other things Muldoon tortures a Strat in the band Rackett.

Small Jones connection: I was a reader for some of Muldoon’s earlier manuscripts including Quoof and Meeting the British

Earlier Paul Muldoon articles on this blog.

Dan Lyons eats SCOX Crow

He says it here himself at Forbes.com:

In the print edition of Forbes there’s a great (albeit sometimes painful) tradition of doing “follow-through” articles where a reporter either takes a victory lap for making a good call or falls on his sword for making a bad one. Online publications don’t typically ask for follow-throughs. But I need to write one.

For four years, I’ve been covering a lawsuit for Forbes.com, and my early predictions on this case have turned out to be so profoundly wrong that I am writing this mea culpa. What can I say? I grew up Roman Catholic. The habit stays with you.

[…]

But I still thought it would be foolish to predict how this lawsuit (or any lawsuit) would play out. I even wrote an article called “Revenge of the Nerds,” which poked fun at the pack of amateur sleuths who were following the case on a Web site called Groklaw and who claimed to know for sure that SCO was going to lose.

Turns out those amateur sleuths were right. Now some of them are writing to me asking how I’d like my crow cooked, and where I’d like it delivered.

Others in that highly partisan crowd have suggested that I wanted SCO to win, and even that I was paid off by SCO or Microsoft. Of course that’s not true. I’ve told these folks it’s not true. Hasn’t stopped them.

The truth, as is often the case, is far less exciting than the conspiracy theorists would like to believe. It is simply this: I got it wrong. The nerds got it right.

SCO is road kill. Its lawsuit long ago ceased to represent any threat to Linux. That operating system has become far too successful to be dislodged. Someday soon the SCO lawsuits will go away, and I will never have to write another article about SCO ever again. I can’t wait.

Glad to hear this Dan. I love you in your Fake Steve Jobs role. Don’t stop there. Yr Freetard friend, Paul.

PJ standing in for PJ

Last night, I stood in for Groklaw‘s Pamela Jones at the Louis Round Wilson Knowledge Trust Awards. PJ was taken ill at the last minute and since I’ve been accused of being her or of being half of her, I seemed like a natural standin for her. It helped a lot that PJ sent me a copy of her speech the night before. I’ll link to it once it’s up at the Knowledge Trust site.

Other Wilson Knowledge Trust Awardees were Brewster Kahle of archive.org, David P. Reed of Reed’s Law fame, Michael Jones of Google Earth, Tom Blanton of National Security Archive, Jeff Elkner of Open Book Project, Ryan Allis of iContact

Sounds of Freedom

Last year when the UNC Football game preshow was a low flyover of F-15 fighter jets, the noise was intense. So was the discussion that followed on the local email lists and blogs.

This year after a neighbor’s dog was spooked, escaped and then hit by a car during an unannounced fireworks display at the football stadium, I was quick to post the announcement that there would be a low flight of Apache helicopters on Saturday.

Predictably the lists went wild. Folks concerned about their dogs and serenity and to a large part dedicated to non-violence vs those who wanted to cite their brief military background and the chicken-little-ness of the other side.

One veteran , however, had it down:

Speaking as ex-military, believer in peace, neighborhood resident – the “sound of freedom” is people expressing their views freely, without fear of reprisal – as on this neighborhood list.

And after all of that, the Sound of Freedom turned out to be less annoying than the Sound of News as the Apaches made aless noisy than the circling TV helicopters.

In other Sounds of Freedom instances, Conservative Republican Representative Walter Jones was spending Saturday in his office writing condolence letters to families of service personnel killed in Iraq. “So far, he has signed about 6,700 letters to family members.”

Elvis Costello and NC Symphony setlist

Will clean up in the morning

Elvis introduces the night and the Orchestra starts on his “Il Sogno,” his “Mid-Summer Night’s Dream.” Puck is a jazz sax fairy.

Elvis on guitar “All the Useless Beauty”

Steve Nieve arrangement of “Still too soon to know”

God Bless the Dixie Chicks says Elvis

“Birds will still be singing” from the Juilette Letters

Break

“The Girl in the Other Room”

“Veronica” written with Paul McCarthy
Orchestra reprises the ending

Steve Nieve arrangement of “Green Shirt”

“Shipbuilding” credits Chet Baker’s playing for driving the new arrangement

“River in Reverse” aka “Wake me up”

Nativity song in a refuge camp says El. “(Found Myself in) Bedlam”

“(What’s so funny about) Peace, Love and Understanding”

Written with T-Bone Burnett for Alison Krause. “Scarlet Tide” A war widow’s distrust of government says El. Then a bit about how he loves being in a country with a written constitution.

Peter Gunn theme woven into “Watching the Detectives” with alto and soprano sax solos

“She”

“God Give Me Strength”

“Still have that other girl in my head”

“Accidents will happen”

“Allison” with orchestra intro then to solo guitar then orchestra reenters then fade to “Tracks of My Tears”

“Couldn’t Call It Unexpected No. 4” from “Mighty Like A Rose”

Monday: “In Praise of Reading” Dr. Vartan Gregorian

SILS’ 75th Anniversary Grand Finale set for Sept. 17

Vartan GregorianSept. 6, 2007 – The grand finale of the School of Information and Library Science’s (SILS) 75th anniversary is set to take place on Sept. 17, 2007, which coincides with the date the school first began teaching classes in 1931. The finale will begin at 3 p.m. in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall.

Our distinguished keynote presenter will be Dr. Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He will present, "In Praise of Reading." Dr. Gregorian is the 12th president of the corporation, a post he assumed in 1997. Prior to this position, he was president of Brown University for nine years. For eight years prior to his work at Brown University, he was president of the New York Public Library. Dr. Gregorian is the recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

The Carnegie Corporation provided SILS with its first grant of $100,000 to enable the school to operate for three years and to make permanent its conditional accreditation from the American Library Association.

Dr. Gregorian will be joined at the finale by James Moeser, chancellor of UNC- at Chapel Hill, and James B. Hunt, Jr., former governor of North Carolina.

Please plan to join us at Memorial Hall on Sept. 17. It is sure to be a grand finale!

Beginning and ending in Moonshine

Tom Wolfe in The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby called him The Last American Hero. Not just called him that. He wrote it as if he were shouting it out to Gawd and his own deaf family like this:

Finally, one night they had Junior trapped on the road up toward the bridge at Millersville, there’s no way out of there, they had the barricades up and they could hear this souped-up car roaring around the bend, and here it comes–but suddenly they can hear a siren and see a red light flashing in the grille, so they think it’s another agent, and boy, they run out like ants and pull those barrels and boards and sawhorses out of the way, and then–Ggghhzzzzzzzhhhhhgggggzzzzzzzeeeeeong!–gawdam! there he goes again, it was him, Junior Johnson! with a gawdam agent’s si-reen and a red light in his grille!

Now in age Junior has settled down to commerce, to what he knows best other than driving and conniving — that is dealing in moonshine.

William Keesler reports in The Dispatch that Johnson is selling “autographed bottles of Junior Johnson’s Midnight Moon liquor” up there in Lexington, NC where they could be eating BBQ instead.

PT Saga – in the Clutches

Tuesday last week, I drove into work and stopped at the gate. The gate opened but my PT, a straight drive, wouldn’t go into first from neutral. I tried jiggling etc and finally turned off the car. Pow! It went into gear with ease. I parked and all was fine if a little stiff in the one gear change I needed to get into the deck and into a parking place.

Driving home was a little stiff in the shifting but everything worked. Things seems back to normal for a couple of days. Til Friday in fact. An odd syncro-mesh moment I thought.

I came to the turn into the parking lot, stopped for the light and once again I couldn’t get in gear. Yes the clutch was on the floor. I turned off the car. I could shift into first, restart the car and drive again. One more restart at the gate and I was parked.

Leaving that evening, I started the car and couldn’t get it in reverse. Stopped. In gear. Backout. Try first. No way. Turn off. In gear. Drive out. Next few shifts were stiff but those shifts worked without grinding even. But at the first light. I had to TurnOff-Shift-Restart again.

I made it home.

Tomorrow off to Chrysler. At about 73K miles, am I in for a slave cylinder? A clutch? A sensor (Chrysler says no to this)? Or what?

Flashback posters

Old Music and Jack Tales get the 60s treatment in event posters from the Southern Historical Collection here at UNC – Chapel Hill. Storyteller Orville Hicks (today at 10 am in Wilson Library when I have an Indy Study meeting) and RockMusic critic Greil Marcus and the Handsome Family (next Friday Sept 14 at 5 for a reception and talk/event 6 – 9) are represented by the posters below:

Greil MarcusOrville Hicks

Foodblogging comes to the Triangle

Anton alerts us to the coming Foodblogging events with Michael Ruhlman (complete list and details here).

9/23 at 4:30pm: Reading and book signing — The Regulator Bookshop in Durham will host chef-author-blogger Michael Ruhlman for a reading from his celebrated books about the lives of American chefs.

9/24 at 7:30pm: A taste of food blogging at Piedmont Restaurant — BlogTogether will partner with Piedmont Restaurant chefs Drew Brown and Andy Magowan to host a five-course prix-fixe dinner based on local ingredients (featuring head-to-tail pig, perhaps). At dinner, chef-author-blogger Michael Ruhlman will share his insights about how to write about food.

When: Monday, September 24th at 7:30pm

Where: Piedmont Restaurant, 401 Foster St., Durham, NC

What: A ticketed five-course prix fixe dinner featuring local ingredients prepared by chef Brown and his kitchen.

How much: $65 prepaid (this will cover dinner, wine, & tip).

Who: Anyone who wants to enjoy a fabulous meal and learn about food blogging, a talented writer and a local chef. All dinner guests will be encouraged to write and talk about the meal and what they learn this night. SEATS ARE LIMITED

Get your seat at the table: If you want to attend this dinner, send a message to zuiker@gmail.com.

9/25 at 9am: Coffee with the Chefs — Chapel Hill’s 3CUPS coffee shop will host a morning coffee klatch for Michael Ruhlman to meet local chefs. Others are invited to stop by at 10:15am to chat with Michael, the chefs and 3CUPS proprietor Lex Alexander.

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