Daily Archives: May 8, 2007

David Weinberger IS Heidegger’s Hammer

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 8, 2007

This lovely book was written to be taken apart – in a good way. It asks us to reflect on how the great worlds of knowledge and authority have been changed beyond recognition by the advent of the internet. – Susan Crawford With Everything is Miscellaneous David Weinberger asserts himself as one of top pop [...]

Posted in Miscellaneous, Tools, Verbalistics, Writing | Comments closed

an enormous depression

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 8, 2007

river runs in the setting sun something smooth, slippery, elusive just below the surface impossible to grasp to hold I’d rather grab an angry bear wrestle and roar matted fur filthy and foul breath hot in my face take it head on no subtly nuanced quiet whispers influencing, isolating damn your wretched soul-sucking judgments damn [...]

Posted in Writing | Comments closed

Pynchon and Snyder — happy birthday

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 8, 2007

Thomas Pynchon and Gary Snyder and Edmund Wilson share a birthday.  File under things Garrison Keillor broadcast.  Mark Woods can, I think, be expected to pull forward something meaningful about one or another of these good old boys.

Posted in Creative Arts, Writing | Comments closed

Heidegger’s Hammer

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 8, 2007

When I received my copy of Everything is Miscellaneous I decided to dip into it here and there to enjoy the prose in little chunklets.  What kind of a narrative would it be to have that title yet require a strictly linear reading?  Later I turned over a new leaf as it were, and began [...]

Posted in Science, Tools, Web Publishing, Writing | Comments closed