New additions.
Taking a break from taking a break from engaging with things to do a bit of housekeeping here at ContortYrself, not that I'm at all confident that such things are important right now. Anyway, you may notice that the linkbar (I like that better than blogroll, which sounds like what happens to overweight fifth graders on the playground, and I would know) has been updated with some new names. This is to reflect the expanding focus - which makes little to no sense, but disregard that - of ContortYrself. Among the additions are friends, notably Hot Air Balloons' Split Foster, a tremendous human being in the Nietzchean sense and author of an extremely engaging travel blog, as well as one of my very best friends. I also added Rod Aminian over at his LiveJournal hovel. Usually, I'd be apprehensive about placing a personal blog link here, but Rod remains consistently engaging, even aside from the voyeurism. Add this to the extremely quoted Mike Slaven over at Newsthoughts and you've got a nice little contingent.
I also added Orbis Quintus, not only because he's in Baton Rouge and has deliciously academic sympathies, but also because his most recent post has a bad thing to say about Christopher Hitchens, and just about anyone who can recognize that Hitchens is a bloated corpse of dessicated Anglo-American journalism is delightfully welcome to sit at my linkbar.
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I'd initially intended to write a bit on why you should go over to the Stypod immediately and find their delightful trove of house musics, but in reality you should check them every day, so let this be your one warning. They are responsible for introducing me to the finest song of the new millenium, Polmo Polpo's epochal "Kiss Me Again and Again" as well as my favorite Muslimgauze track, from 1999's Box of Silk and Dogs, "Help Afghanistan to Grow More Poppies".
Also, I'd thought about commenting on Harriet Miers' nomination, but Slate covered it here, here, and, peripherally, here better than I could, though you also must avoid a Hitchens story - be careful where you click. But, really, everybody but Fleshbot has weighed in so far. And they're on their way.
I really must return to the grind of multiple articles about citizenship, but hopefully, the expansion of ContortYrself doesn't sit ill with my three or four readers. I'll get to posting some music when something really compelling happens, which hasn't been the case for the past few weeks.
I also added Orbis Quintus, not only because he's in Baton Rouge and has deliciously academic sympathies, but also because his most recent post has a bad thing to say about Christopher Hitchens, and just about anyone who can recognize that Hitchens is a bloated corpse of dessicated Anglo-American journalism is delightfully welcome to sit at my linkbar.
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I'd initially intended to write a bit on why you should go over to the Stypod immediately and find their delightful trove of house musics, but in reality you should check them every day, so let this be your one warning. They are responsible for introducing me to the finest song of the new millenium, Polmo Polpo's epochal "Kiss Me Again and Again" as well as my favorite Muslimgauze track, from 1999's Box of Silk and Dogs, "Help Afghanistan to Grow More Poppies".
Also, I'd thought about commenting on Harriet Miers' nomination, but Slate covered it here, here, and, peripherally, here better than I could, though you also must avoid a Hitchens story - be careful where you click. But, really, everybody but Fleshbot has weighed in so far. And they're on their way.
I really must return to the grind of multiple articles about citizenship, but hopefully, the expansion of ContortYrself doesn't sit ill with my three or four readers. I'll get to posting some music when something really compelling happens, which hasn't been the case for the past few weeks.
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