Monthly Archives: May 2004

here’s a riddle for you

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Why is it that people who play their music too loudly (in their car in the alley behind your building, for example, or in the apartment next door) always play crappy music?

New next-door neighbors moved in yesterday. They look like adults, but I’ve been treated to what sounds like MTV pop/r&b all afternoon. Just once I’d like to hear a car drive by blasting Liz Phair, the Pixies, say, or the Clash.

Okay, how do I deal with this? “Hi, I’m your neighbor. Would you turn that shit down?” No, that won’t work. “Hi, I’m your neighbor. You know, you’re obviously so clueless about apartment living we’ll probably be able to hear you having sex.” Nope. “Hi, you voted for Bush, didn’t you?” Nah. “Hi. Ever hear of the social contract?” Uh-unh.

Suggestions?

asecs 2005 cfp

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The 2005 meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will take place in Las Vegas, baby! The calls for papers are available online. I’ll be chairing the SHARP panel:
ìThe Fate of Script in an Age of Printî
It is generally acknowledged that the technology of print facilitated many important cultural transformations during the eighteenth century. However, manuscript practices clearly did not disappear with the advent of print. This panel invites scholars from all fields to interrogate the boundary between the cultures of manuscript and print in the eighteenth century and to investigate the ways in which their histories might be said to overlap. Materials of interest might include but are not limited to commonplace books, diaries, graffiti, letters, marginalia, recipes, record keeping, and shorthand. Papers are welcome from those working in a variety of languages and in a variety of national traditions.
Proposals from non-SHARP members are welcome with the understanding that they must become members of SHARP if their paper is accepted and they agree to present. Please send one page abstracts for this panel to williamsgh@umkc.edu by September 15, 2004.

repurposing the cicadas

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I’ve given voices (mp3, 2.2M) to Matt’s cicadas . This sound file is licensed under a Creative Commons license.

the future of the page

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Jason J. provides links to some interesting readings for a summer seminar titled “The Future of the Page.”

mechanick exercises

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If you’re going to be in New York in early June, this announcement, via SHARP-L, might be of interest to you:
The New York Chapter of the American Printing History Association is pleased to announce a lecture by Mark Batty, of Mark Batty Publishing, Ltd., on June 2, 2004 at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, NY at 6 p.m. Mr Batty will be speaking on the complexities, trials and tribulations of making a new edition of Joseph Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (1683), the first book ever written on printing and printing types. The text, edited by bibliographer John Lane, has been extensively annotated and expanded for scholars and artists in the fields of printing, typography and the graphic arts. The new edition is based on that of the Oxford Univesity Press (1962), edited by Herbert David and Harry Carter.
The event is free and open to the public. More information about the event is available on the APHA website calendar. For information about the New York Chapter, contact its president Lowell Bodger at 212 777-0841 or write to APHA-NY, PO Box 1074, New York, NY 10278.