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more about #barneyfrank more comments → AJ: "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!" One of my favorite lines in literature, especially when it's being acted out by a group of slightly tipsy English... more » hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE: may favorite piece of homoerotica! "i peered through the keyhole and caught site of his shaft" etc. more » NewsBunny: There's not much else to celebrate in New Bedford. Newsbunny -------------------> born inside 128 more » MockMyWorld: Random musings from the insular city of the Manhattoes: 1) That reporter is a fine one to bitch. His article is as long as the book. 2) Who is respons... more » Tart of Darkness: I would love to have the same feelings for one single book or one single thing so that I would attend something like this. I once coveted Moby Dick i... more » haguenite: Commenting completely blindly here because I've been mixing up Melville and Whitman and am feeling horribly ashamed. I'M SORRY, WHITE MALE CANONICAL A... more » chatterboxwriting: One of my friends is an English teacher. One of her students recently asked, "Did Moby Dick write any other books?" True story. I'm pretty sure tha... more » femputer: Didn't Andy Kaufman do this? As a JOKE? Oh, wait, maybe it was the Great Gatsby.... more » LaComtesse: My husband is getting a Moby Dick fighting Ahab tattoo done in scrimshaw style. I'm very excited because I think it will be awesome. more » YourScreenplaySucks: When Christian Slater tried to kill me and make it look like a suicide, he left this book at the scene. True story. more » Shamrockette: I must be totally fucked up, since whenever Moby Dick is mentioned, I think of whale penises. Therapy is all but optional at this point. more » Sputnik_Sweetheart: If Moby will provide the soundtrack, I am so there. more » Shamrockette: You'd think a story about Dick would be fun to listen to. But for 24 straight hours, damn. I could only last for no more than 30 minutes! more » Mafalda para Presidente: I still need to finish reading this book. I believe the last time I tried I was in high school. more » Mrs. Jones: God, how dumb! Everyone knows that "Moby Dick" was the name of Ahab's childhood sled! more » -
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Call Me...Tired.
The 13th annual Moby-Dick Marathon took place in New Bedford in January. 170 people, including Melville's great-great-grandson and Barney Frank, read the 800-page novel aloud for 24 hours straight. This FT reporter hated it. [FT] -
#crappyhour
It's Election Day, So Go Vote Already
Election Day marks the end of this interminable campaign, though not the issues that drive it or, one hopes, the electorate's interest in politics. To help me mark the time, former Jezebel Moe Tkacik takes a break from running up and down the East Coast and hobnobbing with the intellectual elites and a Congressman or two to hit up the elections, the financial crisis, the housing crisis and the great Ponzi scheme that was our financial system. Oh, yeah, and that elections thing. More »
