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A story about "Dr. Seuss's ABC: An amazing alphabet book (Bright and early board book)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (richjensen) — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:32:37 GMT

Dr. Seuss's ABC: An amazing alphabet book (Bright and early board book)

by Seuss

I’m really having fun introducing my young daughter to the work of Dr. Seuss. She loves sort of singing along to the ABC song, kind of fading in and out through the course of the alphabet. This book is the best introduction to the written alphabet I’ve found so far. Upper-case and Lower-case letters are featured. The graphics are bright and spectacular and sometimes weird and nearly macabre . The red rhinoceros’ horn looks suspiciously like another animal’s masculine anatomy and what’s up with the Z character, the quilted, Zizzer-zazzer-zuzz? Definitely queerer than Sponge-bob. I dig it though, whatever it is, and I have a hunch it’s the right stuff for her.

It’s also excellent that, as the reader moves deeper into the alphabet, there are occasional reviews of all the letters identified thus far. 26 random shapes and sounds (fifty-two really with the upper and lower-case) is a lot to put into memory.

A story about "The Prison-House of Language"

nobody@allconsuming.net (richjensen) — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:13:30 GMT

The Prison-House of Language

by Fredric Jameson

I remember a phrase from this book that encouraged me to write. Or rather, I remember there was a phrase here that did that for me but now I’ve forgotten what it was. I am going back in to try to find it again.

A story about "Psychoanalysis: What Is It?"

nobody@allconsuming.net (richjensen) — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:01:39 GMT

Psychoanalysis: What Is It?

Matt from the shop lent this to me. I only got to sort of listen to a part of it but really enjoyed it and wanted to study it. PP is (of course) one of the great creators of a laid-back, goofy, almost hippie-style, hip hop sound, perhaps first and best illustrated by De La Soul’s, Three Feet High and Rising.

Anyhoo, this is a mid-career solo album in which PP sets up numerous skits around a old-school Freudian analyst, with Viennese accent, probing PP’s neurotic and idful personality. Its nasty and funny and really demands and deserves hours of study. I look forward to coming back soon.