Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

I’ve been blogging up a storm on the Afterword. If you’re looking for more stuff from me, look to the right and you’ll find my twitter feed and my shared items from Google Reader.

But I’m going to point out to some of the amazing things my friends (and one distant family member) have been up to:

My cousin Simone points us to amazing Korean-designed items from the MOMA store. download Abandoned

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Former co-worker David George-Cosh reminisces about Canada’s best live venue, the Phog Lounge in Windsor, Ont. While another one teaches us how to make chai The Chair full , real actual home-made chai!

Shrek 2 film My friends at Spacing are on the ‘radio.’ Actually they launched a podcast.

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Finally, literary pals Evan Munday and Ian Daffern make a series of videos for the new Jon Paul Fiorentino book, Stripmalling.

Watch the first episode below:

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Just kidding. But really. Lit blog The Millions

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pointed me to this Wikipedia article on book curses

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. Seems like mediaeval scribes used to place hexes on books. Considering the religious nature of many of these texts, not to mention the agonizing, eye-gouging labour that went into some of them (most would’ve been copied out by hand!) a curse seems to be appropriate.

Without Warning release Fuck trailer Here’s an example of one:

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying out for mercy, & let there be no surcease to his agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails … when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.

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