Some Stuff I've Been Reading Online #3

"Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt," by Umberto Eco. A list of features of Ur-Fascism.

No reading here: Roger Federer's best shot ever?

The words David Foster Wallace circled in his copy of The American Heritage Dictionary. How many of them do you know?

An old article in Slate: Which Dictionary is Best?

No reading here either: A great, great 84-minute interview of David Foster Wallace split into 10 parts on YouTube. You can find part five here (the others can be found from there). It contains these gems: (1) "There's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred." and (2) "Most of the problems in my life have to do with my confusing what I want and what I need."

Instructions from Charles Mingus on how to toilet train a cat. Charles Mingus!

A Huffington Post post with a link to one of the most awesome videos on YouTube: Bronte sisters action figures! The video is a must watch. Seriously.

Coach Rodriguez gets his hair cut by my old Ann Arbor barber!

Pictures of Donald Judd's personal library. This is incredibly cool. I practically insist you go look at it. Read the instructions on how to browse (on the map, click on the shelf section you want to look at; on the picture, place your cursor on each shelf and it'll summarize what's on it; click on the shelf you want to see and it will show you that shelf; when you're looking at a shelf, if you place your cursor on a book it will tell you what it is). It's so great, I'm telling you.

The syllabus from a literary interpretation class David Foster Wallace taught at Pomona College (I assume) in 2005. It's seven pages and amazing.

A grammar quiz given by David Foster Wallace. Have fun!

This diagram (structure of the ballad) and this diagram (victory over temptation!) from the current edition of Diagram.

Lewis Black's fantastic takedown of Glenn Beck.

A video of Axis of Awesome doing their "Four Chord Song" medley. It's fun, if not exactly fair.

Love and Theft. A short video for National Film Board of Canada's online short film contest. Forbidden Tree is also worth watching. The Last Passenger and The Report Card are also good.