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Posted on December 21, 2014November 13, 2014 by the coffee philosopher

Posted on December 18, 2014December 5, 2014 by the coffee philosopher

Live Forever! Through Your DNA Clone! Just $1200!

For some reason, it was popping up as a sponsored post in my twitter feed and I am so glad that I clicked on it because it is hilarious.

You send this company $1200 and a some samples of your DNA, which are vacuum sealed and put into a fireproof safe, to be kept intact until the technology is there to grow your clone. $200 of your fee will be put into… I don’t know, a savings account, I guess… and used to pay for your new clone and provide a handy nest egg. This is the same theory behind paying for your dinner at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. You put a penny into a bank account and when you’ve time traveled to the temporal end of the universe, interest has made that penny sufficient to pay for your insanely expensive meal.

And just in case you were worried, you can read wonderfully detailed and theologically sound argument for why this is totally cool with whatever your religion happens to be (as long as its monotheistic) and reassures you that God, the big guy himself, is personally totally cool with this and it’s actually totally part of his plan for you, so maybe not doing this is a terrible sin or something.

Check it out. The website looks like it was created on a CompuServ account in 1998.

Posted on September 16, 2014August 29, 2014 by the coffee philosopher

‘Novel Reading’ Was A Reason To Send Someone To A Lunatic Asylum

Posted on September 10, 2014August 22, 2018 by the coffee philosopher

Midweek Staff Meeting

Epilepsy medication triggered an unusual hypergraphia – focused on writing poetry.

Being a good person makes you a happy person. Or, at least, being bad makes it hard (impossible) to be happy. I don’t know. I’m not very happy, so am I a good person or not?

The history of what’s behind, provided by the people that tore it down to make condos.

Posted on September 8, 2014September 4, 2014 by the coffee philosopher

Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Medieval Science

Robert Kelly’s ‘An Alchemical Journal’

Notes towards a poetics of the Dow.

We don’t need publishers and bookstores to take on Amazon. We need the DOJ to take on Amazon.

What’s like being president of the Poetry Foundation?

No, not nothing.

Posted on August 29, 2014August 27, 2014 by the coffee philosopher

Weekend Reading – Finding Religiousity In The Secular Mundane

The goals of poetry.

I scored a 19, which, apparently, makes me more narcissistic than your average celebrity.

The Hungarian writers’ union.

Posted on June 30, 2014June 27, 2014 by the coffee philosopher

Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Local Boy Done Good

If you read through the whole article (fascinating, in and of itself), you’ll see a contribution made by the Folger Shakespeare Library!

A great little way that the Indiana Poet Laureate is promoting a bit o’ poetry literacy.

Deep reading Dickinson.

I gotta recommend Diego’s. Have the Greek fellow do it, if he’s available.

I worry that the quality of public intellectuals has gone down in correspondence with the decline in the quality of the public’s intelligence.

But they’re doing something right over there – in this case, protecting brick and mortar bookstores from predatory pricing practices.

Posted on May 26, 2014May 23, 2014 by the coffee philosopher

Monday Morning Staff Meeting – Advice From The Dead

Ralph Waldo Emerson is talking to the young’uns.

Mathematical Ulysses.

Posted on May 23, 2014May 20, 2014 by the coffee philosopher

Weekend Reading – We Are Confined

Myself without not others does not fully exist; or, Heidegger on the prison industrial complex.

There is no progress without philosophy.

Gertrude Stein’s unofficial flak.

When poetry was a profession.

Gertrude Stein the bookmaker.

Posted on May 16, 2014May 13, 2014 by the coffee philosopher

Weekend Reading – Captain Kirk Was Right (Of Course; And By Captain Kirk, We Mean William Shatner, Because He Is The Sean Connery Of Captains Of The Enterprise; Look, No One Is Denying That Picard Was Cool, But Shatner’s Kirk Was The Man)

The multiverse is real. Maybe. Probably. We think. I can’t tell. Is there consensus? I don’t know. But here’s a picture of Goatee Spock and Sleeveless Kirk.

“Books, simply as props that happen also to be quite useful if you open them up, are the best—perhaps the only—bastions of contemplative intellectual space in the world.”

So, yeah. My home state of Florida is going be mostly underwater.