random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
  me: "I wonder why there is this wierd confluence between sports metaphors and cooking, war, and sex?"

Ron K: "Ah, blame it on the sportscasters. They're always having to struggle to find new ways to describe the same old boring shit."

tagged: sports metaphors, war metaphors, metaphor, media
  —Ron Kollath (friend), Conversation, 12/25/95, Chicago.

Archive for April, 2006

comedies & tragedies of fair use

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

5/3 update: variant version of this post (an older version of the post but marked-up with hyperlinks) + other blog commentary from Joy Garnett @ newsgrist … liveblogging the meeting and this session @ iptablog – The Comedies of Fair Use meeting wrapped up a few hours ago. Among the best presentations were the art [...]

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