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A blog for my academic ideas, more or less.

Conference Concupiscence

So I went to my first conference this weekend past.

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Filed under: conferences

Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair

So Michael Moorcock, Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair had a chat last night.

Photo by a href=I was there.

Here are some things I wrote down while I was there.

I am instituting more-or-less arbitrary breaks, signalled by ===, to make this more readable.

There is also some stuff in (parentheses) that is extraneous, added at the time or now.

(This is not a complete transcription.)

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Filed under: miscellaneous

Copy-Editing Fetish

I copy-edited a friend’s article to get it down by a couple of hundred words.

Here are the traces of my work.

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Filed under: reading

selfish.

I keep telling people that I will loan them my Ellen Kennedy book.
I think I’ve said it to three people so far.
Maybe more.
But I don’t want to give it to them.
Or
I do.
It is good, I think they will like it and that would make me happy.
But
I don’t want to not have it in my room.
I don’t know what to do.

Filed under: mcsweeneys

Sandwich Sunday, III

Some themes this week from things I’ve read:

- David Foster Wallace

- reading

- sex

- reading about sex

- writing about sex

- writing

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Filed under: reading

About Me:

My name is Kevin O'Neill and I am in the second year of a PhD in the English Department of Goldsmiths, London, UK.

My research centres around the literary journal McSweeney's. My interest is developing into what McSweeney's tells us about two separate (but I guess related) fields: 1) literary institutions 2) American cultural production, more broadly.
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  • Girls with bikes eating cake on a U-Bahn platform are incredibly hot. 12 hours ago
  • Delays boooooo gonna miss the gallery i wanted to go to. 2 days ago
  • BYE. 2 days ago
  • This morning is so pleasant to walk in I just left my bike at the Post Office. 2 days ago
  • Oh yeah, trip = Berlin p.s. Going to Germany for first time ever today. 2 days ago

my flickr

09.07.09

Choosing What They Read

Choose What You Read

06.07.09

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