Posted by Juliet Linderman Hey Dick-enthusiasts! It’s Thursday, which means over at Vol. 1 we’ve been Dick watching for your pleasure and convenience. Here they are, your Moby-Dick related links for the week! Let’s get started:
Dick Watching: Loomings
Posted by Juliet Linderman Hello Dick lovers! Welcome to the first installment of Dick Watching, where we’ll be bringing you the sexiest Moby Dick-related links on the internet. Excited? Of course you are. 1. Apparently there are a whole lot of whales stranded off the coast of New Zealand. Sad. The poor little pod of pilot whales washed up on the Karikari Beach in northern New Zealand and only 15 survived, because conservationists were unable to “re-float” the little dudes. […]
Dick Jokes
Yes, I would have posted about the “Ishmael the Comedian” piece on McSweeney’s even if it didn’t enable me to title this “Dick Jokes”. I’m a little more mature than that. ISHMAEL: So, I’m standing in line at the public hanging, and— HECKLER: Your comedic stylings are akin to a body lacking blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm—that is, without any humor. ISHMAEL: Hey, buddy, do I come down to the stables where you work and criticize how you […]
Handmade Moby Dick Cover
(Via Too Many Books in the Kitchen)
Literary Buzzword: Whales
Proof: 1. Matt Kish and his Zak Smithesque project to draw a picture for every page of Moby-Dick. 2. The Whale by Philip Hoare 3. The poem in this weeks New Yorker by Robert Pinsky: “Whale” 4. Bands naming themselves after Melville’s masterpiece. Will Tilikum going on a murder spree have any effect on this trend? I’m not sure.
Crazy Egomaniac Anton Newcombe is “like Moby Dick”
You thought Anton Necombe was finished? Think again. Over at Impose, he freaks out interviewer Blake Gillespie and compares himself to the white whale. So this is the thought process that informed the title Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? I just think it’s funnier than shit because guess what, like it or not I’m there too. Search engines. Everywhere. On the Wikipedia page. Of course, I have to. They’re fucked now. I’ve got’em. I’m like Moby Dick. I’m one of the […]
Happening: _ Quarterly Issue 4 Release Show
_Quarterly is moving onto their fourth issue, “Sea”. And while that itself is exciting, the announcement of the release party at Silent Barn, with performances by poet Chelsea Hodson, Robert Lowe’s always pleasing solo project, Lichens, and Soft Circle, makes the entire _Quarterly #4 package too good to pass up. All the info is below the flyer. There will be music by Soft Circle, Lichens, CNTRL Top, and Weekend, with readings by Chelsea Hodson. Publications and other ephemera from Swill […]
Bites: Fancy Cocktails, Dick is Good for Divorce, German Publishers, Cheshire Cat as Math, Stephen Elliott at WORD, The Replacements, and More
Our favorite Bay Area bookstore takes a look at old cocktail books. Lit. Want a smooth divorce? Read Moby-Dick. At The Millions, Emily St. John Mandel talks about writing on trains. Designworklife takes a look at German book publisher, Zeixs. If Sarah Palin is coming to your local supermarket to sign books, please get rid of the tomatoes. N+1 discussion between conservative writers Ross Douthat and Reihan Salaam. Shakespeare characters write letters to Santa. Q: Why did Lewis Carroll add […]