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August 30, 2003

Why weblog?

Culture Low and High

Why I have a personal weblog.

August 27, 2003

Montaigne on the penis

Florilegium

16th century Montaigne wites about the penis, John Florio, Elizabethan translator

August 18, 2003

Dare to love: Jimmy Somerville

Gay Themed , • Listening

Jimmy Somerville was always aware of the age of consent laws: Dare to love with the man sitting in jail because his male lover was younger

August 16, 2003

A couple of books on the English Reformation

Reading

G. R. Elton: Reform & Reformation: England, 1509-1558 and A.G. Dickens: The English Reformation

Mediocre book on Elizabeth I

Reading

Pedestrian history of the reign of Elizabeth I.

The Invention of Ancient Israel

Reading

The Invention of Ancient Israel: the Silencing of Palestinian History by Keith D. Whitelam

Shakespeare: scholars & crackpots

Reading

Shakespeare's Lives by Schoenbaum, a look at honest if misguided scholarship, foolish Baconians and Oxfordians, and forgers.

August 13, 2003

Listening to Barry White

Listening

Barry White's All-Time Greatest Hits. His music was popular in gay bars back in the 70s.

Sam Fox vs. a Cosmic Dancer

Listening

Sam Fox's dance pop, nelly Marc Bolan's Electric Warrior.