Over at The Believer, a bunch of real writers have answered the two part query, "What are you working on? What's on your desk?"
Oddly enough, The Believer did not ask me, but I am going to tell you anyway.
On my desk: one mug, printed with the names of my entire high school graduating class, filled with pens; the January sheet from my Italian calendar; Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy (Cornell 2005), edited by Claudia Lazzaro and Roger J. Crum; Politica Fascista delle Arti by Giuseppe Bottai (Roma 1940); a folder titled "Upcoming Travel," in which I am trying to keep from losing my mind; my little clipped-together pad of scrap paper; yet another box of tissues (almost empty); another cup, this one bearing a photo of many of my college friends, holding bookmarks; stamps; a Birra Moretti coaster; my cellphone, whose voice mail I have recently set up and learned to access; a reminder to set up an appointment with my dermatologist; the remote for my CD player; the floppy-disk drive for my laptop; and last but not least, my laptop (and my elbows).
All of which to try to answer, what am I working on? Well, in addition to trying to get rid of my sinus congestion, I am trying to get this darned book written, about Ezra Pound and his investment in Italian fascism. That's right, folks: rejection letter #1 arrived on Friday (happy weekend), but I persisted unabashed and wrote eleven new pages on my chapter in progress, about the revival of Vivaldi's music during the inter-war years. Take that, Yale University Press!
And you? What's on your desk? And what are you working on?
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pk has a comment for Furious, can't find his email, so I just slap it here:
pk's macroinformation blog has budded into three blogs, all at blogspot.com:
macroinformation
IonaArc
InfoAll.
The piece on the news as advertising got moved to IonaArc and also to Knatz.com.
I'll reserve macroinformation for Macroinformation comments.
I know I have your email address somewhere!
A subset of items (the more interesting ones):
Paper, opened to page 6, entitled Constructing Crossword Grids: Use of Heuristics Vs ConstraintsUpside down bottle of honey
1 purple Nexium pen
1 candy cane pen with mint-scented ink
1 Border Sauce HOT that says "Heads..." on it
1 Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook
1 Blue bug-eyed owl stuffed animal head
One color chart entitled Nonprose/Prose Discrimination Based on Two Entropy Values --actually several charts similar to that
One 32 oz plastic mug that says, St. Patrick's Day, Spanky's, Savannah, GAWorking on?
Checking to make sure that a program that attempts to discriminate between prose text and everything else works correctly on Redhat 9 Linux.
darn formatting got messed upForgot to sign the above...
Horvus "Ace" Callithumper
Hey, Horvus, where did you get the nickname "Ace"?
Therious, I'm glad you asked.
A good friend of mine (really smart and witty) gave it to me. I should really try to get in touch with her.
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