November 14, 2010

The Literary Encyclopaedia

Here's a useful website I found for getting a quick guide to a lot of the big ideas and theorists we're encountering in our course: https://www.litencyc.com/

You have to log in with your Goldsmiths username and password, for access to the full articles. The articles are all written by academics and there are heaps of recommended reading lists too.

Interestingly, there are no entries for Peter Sloterdijk or Jean Ranciere at the moment. But Alain Badiou and our dear friends Deleuze and Guattari are there. Happy browsing!

August 23, 2008

Test post from Posterous

Let's see if this works and if the post appears in the Blogger back-end too.

July 26, 2008

"Nigella recipe: Coq au riseling"

"Found it on the web: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-express/coq-au-riesling-recipe/index.html

"There are also links at the bottom of the page to the other recipes featured on the same episode. Enjoy!"

July 25, 2008

"Excuse me, are you a Penguin"

"Working for Penguin ah?

"Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

July 24, 2008

"Fwd: Video of Charles Eames interview, 1956"

"Can't remember if I sent you this already:

"You can watch a demo of how to assemble an Eames chair :)"

July 23, 2008

"NYTimes.com: To Starbucks, a Closing; To Newark, a Trauma"

"Yeah, I know what you mean. It's hard to think of Starbucks as the 'good guy' ...

"I was reading something about how Starbucks coffee actually tasted pretty good when it first started. It's just over the years that it's gone to crap!"

July 22, 2008

"no need visa for Laos?"

"I rang the Laos embassy this morning to ask them if I needed a visa to enter. They said no --- really ah???

"I'm just wondering if the guy who answered the phone is a little befuddled because maybe he has to entertain his foreign minister or whoever is in town for the ASEAN events, so he might've given me the wrong info, ha ha ..."

July 21, 2008

"Fwd: [singaporeheritage] Naitonal Museum World Cinema Series - Sandakan No. 8 (Tues 12 August, 7.30pm)"

"Interested to see this? I've come across mention of the film in reading about Japanese prostitutes in Singapore in the late 19th/early 20th century, but not seen it before."

July 20, 2008

"If you need another time-sucking online game ..."

"Just a note to inform you of another one of those marvellous time-waster on teh intarwebs:

"Big Red Button
"http://www.85qm.de/up/BigRedButton.swf

"On the other hand, since you're a summer schedule now, maybe you could save this for a rainy day? Have fun, either way!"

July 19, 2008

"Wedding to-do list and Vietnam trip"

"As you can see from the admin prog for the two-day wedding, I was damn anal-retentive about details. But that's my style lah. I have seen other programme line-ups that are not so, er, nitpicky :)

"If you need advice, feel free to ask! Sorry I cannot help you plan the full thing, but I'm happy to tell stories about the weddings that I've planned before (not that many lah, but all got stories and learning points)."

tym's posterous

a snippet from today's email ...