I learned last night how stupidly easy it is to make ringtones for the iPhone. That, coupled with how stupidly easy it is to strip audio from videos on YouTube makes this little project possible: 3 ringtones for the iPhone built from the Obama campaign video “Signs of Hope and Change.” The video is great [...]
Summer, in her Facebook status, immediately pointed out the immediate point of interest to a literature person about Barack Obama’s speech this morning: He messed up the Faulkner quote. In Requiem for a Nun, Faulkner writes, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Obama embellished the quote, saying: As William Faulkner once wrote, [...]
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[Updated]Post-hiatus Donkey Hottie is about using literature in posts, not just recreating political arguments distilled from a few Daily Kos posts. So as the Obama/Clinton standoff starts inching itself closer and closer to a mess of a convention in Denver, I feel it is useful to bring up a great scene from Fear and Loathing: [...]
