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Do you have $400 bucks to buy Moby-Dick toilet paper?

On January 23, 2012 By Jason Diamond

Morning Bites: The Girl With The Wagner Tattoo, Talking Moby-Dick, coffee goes up, and more

On January 4, 2012 By Jason Diamond

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Dick Watching: The Dart

On February 4, 2011 By julietlinderman

Image: Jackson Pollock, “Blue (Moby Dick)”, c. 1943.

Ahoy Dick Lovers and Dick Watchers. It’s everyone’s favorite time of the week. It’s Friday. It’s also Dick Watching Day, so shall we go Dick Watching? Huzzah! All a-board, please!
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Dick Watching: The Musket

On January 14, 2011 By julietlinderman

Posted by Juliet Linderman

Hey dudes and dudettes, ladies and germs, cetaceans and crustaceans, and welcome back to Dick Watching on Vol. 1, where we bring you a boatload of news about wonderful, wonderful whales. You guys ready to take the plunge?
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Literary Buzzword: Whales

On March 16, 2010 By Jason Diamond

Proof:

1. Matt Kish and his Zak Smithesque project to draw a picture for every page of Moby-Dick.

2. The Whale by Philip Hoare

3. The poem in this weeks New Yorker by Robert Pinsky: “Whale”

4. Bands naming themselves after Melville’s masterpiece.

Will Tilikum going on a murder spree have any effect on this trend? I’m not sure.
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Crazy Egomaniac Anton Newcombe is “like Moby Dick”

On February 24, 2010 By Jason Diamond

You thought Anton Necombe was finished? Think again.

Over at Impose, he freaks out interviewer Blake Gillespie and compares himself to the white whale.

So this is the thought process that informed the title Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?

I just think it’s funnier than shit because guess what, like it or not I’m there too. Search engines. Everywhere.

On the Wikipedia page.

Of course, I have to. They’re fucked now. I’ve got’em. I’m like Moby Dick. I’m one of the harpoons on the side of that whale.
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Happening: _ Quarterly Issue 4 Release Show

On January 12, 2010 By Jason Diamond

_Quarterly is moving onto their fourth issue, “Sea”. And while that itself is exciting, the announcement of the release party at Silent Barn, with performances by poet Chelsea Hodson, Robert Lowe’s always pleasing solo project, Lichens, and Soft Circle, makes the entire _Quarterly #4 package too good to pass up.

All the info is below the flyer.

There will be music by Soft Circle, Lichens, CNTRL Top, and Weekend, with readings by Chelsea Hodson.
Publications and other ephemera from Swill Children & Medium Rare will also be available.

Doors open at [...]
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Bites: Fancy Cocktails, Dick is Good for Divorce, German Publishers, Cheshire Cat as Math, Stephen Elliott at WORD, The Replacements, and More

On December 17, 2009 By Jason Diamond

Our favorite Bay Area bookstore takes a look at old cocktail books.

Lit.
Want a smooth divorce? Read Moby-Dick. At The Millions, Emily St. John Mandel talks about writing on trains. Designworklife takes a look at German book publisher, Zeixs. If Sarah Palin is coming to your local supermarket to sign books, please get rid of the tomatoes. N+1 discussion between conservative writers Ross Douthat and Reihan Salaam. Shakespeare characters write letters to Santa. Q: Why did Lewis Carroll add the [...]
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