Art Histories
David Bate gives a two-page description of the Surrealists and their politics.
David Evans does likewise for Guy Dubord and the Situationists.
Literary Kicks, an online memoir in progress.
"Unusual Imports" by Paul E. Richardson from the brilliant Russian Life (PDF).
An excerpt from Diane P. Koenker's article, "Whose Right to Rest? Contesting the Family Vacation in the Postwar Soviet Union", Comparative Studies in Society and History, April 2009.
An interview with Jonathan Hoenig, manager of Capitalist Pig Hedge Fund.
Portal 31, Kentucky's first exhibition coal mine.
Zombies, Vamps, and the Undead
"Dracula's Charity Ball" at The Smart Set.
Speak of the devils, Romaniuc reports that the Strigoi (i.e. vampires) are "getting out of their graves" and harassing the humans in Mogoseni-Dambovita.
"Why Zombies Are Inconcievable", a paper by Professor Eric Marcus of the Auburn Philosophy Department (PDF).Vultures descend upon Andre Breton's exquisite corpse.
Eugenics in America
The medal to the right, officially known as the "Fitter Family Medal" awarded by the American Eugenics Society, reads I have a goodly heritage. These medals were regularly awarded in the early and mid 1900s at various social events and family fairs, especially in the midwestern states. Is it smug on my part to prefer my good heritage-- my decent, quaint, non-eugenic heritage-- to the possibility of a "goodly" one?
