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• “All a Man Can Do is Look Upon it”: What’s With the Werckmeister Whale?

  
  Spectacular Attractions — Authority: 122
  [ See also How to Watch Werckmeister Harmonies ] And so continues a period of whale-watching at Spectacular Attractions . Having finally made the time to read Moby Dick over the summer, along with Philip Hoare’s Leviathan (a personal account of his fascination with whales, retracing the influences on ...
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• Me, Captain Ahab, and the Anterior Cingulate Cortex

  
  Knowledge Is Necessity — Authority: 129
  As I mentioned in a recent blog, someone very close to me is in a psych unit right now. In the old days, they simply would have referred to his condition as a nervous break-down. They got that right. His brain is indeed broken. But which part of the brain is broken? That’s what I want to know.As it turned out, I ...
  4 days ago

• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 555
  The Texas Progressive Alliance welcomes everyone back from the Thanksgiving Holiday with these highlights from the blogs. TXsharon has arranged by area 60 TCEQ fugitive emission videos obtained via the Texas Public Information Act. The videos were taken throughout the Barnett Shale area using a GasFindIR ...
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• “Moby Dick” and The Search for Vengeance!

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  I was watching T.V. the other day and I saw “Moby Dick” was on the menu, my partner announced she had never seen it or read the famous novel written by “Herman Melville” in 1851.  Many critics have stated in their opinion Moby Dick is The Great American Novel, and a treasure of the literary world! The ...
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• The sailor’s true binnacle

  
  Journey to Perplexity — Authority: 122
  Moby Dick, or The Whale tells, among many other things, the story of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of a great white sperm whale named Moby Dick.  The whale chewed off his leg some years past, and he is going to get even or die trying.  Who was Ahab?  As with almost everything else in the book, there ...
  5 days ago

• My Fault… Sorry. Episode 3.

  
  Morphine Nation — Authority: 136
  I own a time machine and I never learn (nor fix my mistukess). I disrupted the time continuum a few times. I’m sorry, here’s why. My Fault: Putting a knife in the wrong place (Or The Time G Went to the Morphine Nation Halloween Party) You should read the following four parts of Ano’s story so the ...
  6 days ago

• Whale-watching: Forthcoming Moby Dicks

  
  Spectacular Attractions — Authority: 122
  [ The image above (like the one at the bottom of this post) is from a design by Paul Lasaine for an abandoned version of Moby Dick developed by Dreamworks, directed by the Brizzi brothers . You can see several more images at his blog . The plan was to tell the story from the whales point of view; a fascinating idea ...
  6 days ago

• A Twittering of Birds: The Inscrutable World of Jargon

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  A Twittering of Birds: The Inscrutable World of Jargon   By Mr Ghaz, November 28, 2009 http://u.nu/8rsz3 A Twittering of Birds: The Inscrutable World of Jargon Originally a French word meaning “the twittering of birds,” jargon, in English, was applied to the codes used by criminals who did not want ...
  1 week ago

• We Are All Shipmates—Moby Dick

  
  Texas Liberal — Authority: 561
  Above you see Orson Welles in his ship pulpit in the 1956 adaptation of  Moby Dick . I’d enjoy having this pulpit in my home. I’d love to give a sermon from that pulpit. Even better might be that pulpit hooked up to the back of a truck. I bet could draw some crowds. What would I say? I’m sure I would come ...
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• Music That Speaks to You

  
  Studio 360 Blog — Authority: 125
  Here’s a Black Friday deal that the big-box retailers can’t beat.  Buy the new album from the up-and-coming indie band Ezra Furman and the Harpoons and you’ll get a personalized song thrown in, for no extra charge.  Just send them a letter with your life story (or a condensed version, perhaps), and they’ll ...
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• Challenges and Read-a-Longs, Oh My!

  
  A Striped Armchair — Authority: 525
  If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you’ve probably realised that I’m a complete challenge addict. I adore them: from the time spent making the perfect reading list to adding them to my Current Challenge Page to reading the books and using the strike tag to reading the reviews of other ...
  1 week ago

• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick – A Review

  
  Old Salt Blog - a virtual port of call for all those who love the sea — Authority: 477
  Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex was published not quite a decade ago, so we are a bit late in reviewing it. (Our excuse is that the blog is only about one year old.) Nevertheless, this seems like a good day to review the book, exactly 189 years from the day that ...
  2 weeks ago

• 40 Foot Crocodile Was Real; Moby Dick Was Real; Tom Horn Was Real

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 129
  Sereno Compares Dogcroc with Supercroc Alligators and Crocodiles strike fear in people.  Can you imagine a 40 foot “SuperCroc?”     The Supercroc still holds the title as the largest known crocodile to roam the earth but who knows if there was a bigger one?   After all, University of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Barbara Kingsolver: Interview

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Barbara Kingsolvers The Poisonwood Bible was a controversial bestseller says Tom Leonard and her new novel set in Mexico is just as provocative
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• Only 1 Moby Dick giclée print left!

  
  i will destroy you news — Authority: 415
  This is your last chance for the limited edition giclée print of Moby Dick: Moby Dick archival giclée print edition of 30 signed and numbered $200 (shipping included)
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• Links for 11.17.09: Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

  
  the listenerd — Authority: 425
  * Lists : The 2000’s lists are beginning to come out. According to NPR, these are the 50 Most Important Recordings of the Decade. I didn’t appear on any of them. Though I have recorded a track-for-track remake of “For Emma, Forever Ago.” For personal reasons. In the shower. * Holidays : Spread the holiday ...
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• Local Collectors Pitch in to Populate Litchfield (Conn.) Firehouse Benefit Auction

  
  WorthPoint — Authority: 134
  Auctioneer Tim Chapulis with a guitar signed by the members of the rock group Jay & the Americans, just one of several pieces of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia items to go up for auction to benefit the Litchfield Firehouse. LITCHFIELD, Conn. – Items gathered from private homes, family estates, important ...
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• The Tale Of The Mid-Twenties Cougar

  
  Fruit Fly Life — Authority: 117
  Sometimes. When I am lucky. I do not need to search for article ideas. Instead, amongst my frozen tequila drinks served at happy hour on a brisk Sunday afternoon, article ideas fall out of the proverbial gay sky. I was wearing nothing too unusual. Just the typical stretch black dress, sunflower button-up, leopard ...
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• Whale Skeletons at Hull Maritime Museum

  
  Chris Routledge — Authority: 104
  These images were taken at the Hull Maritime Museum . Most of them are of the skeleton of a Southern Right Whale. There are two exceptions: an Orca or Killer Whale, suspended in chains, and the lower jawbone of a Sperm Whale washed up on the Holderness coast and later displayed at Burton Constable . This whale is ...
  2 weeks ago

• all collapsed

  
  Radigan Neuhalfen's Web Log — Authority: 419
  "All collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." -- Herman Melville , Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
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