Cyber-Bookmarkettes are Internet sites and phenomena that are self-explanatory and thus require little elaboration, that are interesting enough to observe but lack, at least at this point, utility or significance of the sort to justify more than minimal annotation, or that are so ambiguous or confusing as to defy elucidation.
Introducing Cyber-Bookmarkettes From DrHGuy
I have found myself alerting buddies to web sites, anecdotes, and quotes that fall primarily into the “how about that?” category - i.e., they are provocative, dazzling, speculative, glamorous, or even (gasp) cute enough to justify a a few seconds to a few minutes of attention and to trigger the appreciative “how about that?” response but only occasionally prove to have an impact that endures beyond the time spent on the site. Consequently, this content rarely turns up in the Cyber-Bookmarks From DrHGuy series.
Given that folks who receive these links and notes do seem to genuinely enjoy them, it seems worth offering them here as well.
We’ll see how this works out.
What Music Is Popular In New Zealand Today?
Funny You Should Ask
Point and click on a state, region, country, or continent almost anywhere around the world and the Gracenote Music Map will display the “most popular artists and albums” in that area.
DrHGuy caveat: Since, as one might suspect, Gracenote Music Maps are based on The Gracenote Media Database, “most popular” in this case actually means “most artist and album lookups,” so the results are skewed by the likelihood that recently published material will be referenced more than older material, regardless of absolute popularity, and by the likelihood that folks in, for instance, Croatia, use or don’t use Gracenote. Nonetheless, it’s entertaining enough for a quick look.
The Music Maps can be found at ~ Gracenote Music Maps ~
With Love, Leonard
One of the four “love letters” received as part of a marketing promotion for a recently published book, Four Letter Word: New Love Letters, edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter, was written by Leonard Cohen.
You’re going to leave me. I know you’re going to leave me. Like you left Laporte. Like you left Arif. I’ll be someone you call by his last name. Laporte didn’t look too good tonight at the Alhambra when he limped over to say hello to you. He didn’t want to give me his hand because it was so wet. He took the tips of my fingers and he smiled cheerlessly, as if to say: The greatest fuck you’ve ever had, the deepest love you’ve ever known, and she’s going to leave you very soon, you poor stunned sonovabitch. In the car you told me that his hands always get that wet when he has to meet people. You know his terrors, don’t you? As you know mine. We haven’t seen too much from Laporte lately, film-maker of a certain period, when you were his juice, when he was allowed to tie you up, and you commanded him to treat you like a slave. Then you told me to look at the moon, so I looked through the windshield at the moon. Then you told me to be impressed by the colour of the sky, so I applied myself to a study of the royal blue Paris sky. The turbaned Sikh assigned you, as he always does, the most impossible space in the garage, and when we walked past his window, he said, as he always does, The Champion of Parking. In the room you did sail so sweetly into my arms. I’m yours. For tonight. Your big joke. And my heart still leaps up between the declaration and the punchline. Like you left Laporte. Like you left Arif, and then slept with his twin brother. I leave them just before they leave me. It’s better that way, no? Not to have a crying girl on your hands. Okay, darling, you’re sleeping, the night has come to an end, and I’m nervous as hell. You’ll either read this by yourself one day, or we’ll be reading it together. 1980
Extracted from Four Letter Word: New Love Letters, edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter, published by Chatto & Windus on November 1, 2007 at £12.99. Editors © Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter
Best Quote From Last Week’s Episode Of “The Office”
Oscar, who is openly homosexual after being involuntarily outed by his boss, Michael Scott, speaking directly to the camera in the 1 November 2007 episode, Branch Wars:
the Finer Things Club1 is the gayest thing about me.
Second Best Quote From Last Week’s Episode Of “The Office”
Micheal’s observation that
Best Refrain From A Children’s Book And Play
From “The Wolves in the Walls,” by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean:
The phrase, as pithy and terrifying as Dorothy Parker’s “What fresh hell is this?” is absolutely and precisely right.
Lots of famous poems by lots of famous poets in a databases that can be sliced and diced by author, topic, popularity, era, … .
Best two line poem about sex found on Famous Poets and Poems:
Their Sex Life
By A. R. Ammons
One failure on
Top of another
This poetryfest is located at ~ Famous Poets and Poems ~
Footnotes
- With Pam and Toby, Oscar is a founding member of the Finer Things Club, where books are discussed and tea is served. ↩
2 responses so far ↓
1 ben // Nov 6, 2007 at 2:45 am
The Doc’s become Anjanized the shrink is being shrunk
At his plesant rate of shrinking he’ll soon be cohensumed
2 ben // Nov 7, 2007 at 4:33 pm
please replace the shrink is being shrunk with
waning like the moon