Sweets to the Sweet

Ballet Austin will be performing Hamlet this Valentine's weekend for those who prefer death and revenge to gifts and flirtation. The new ballet, choreographed by the company's artistic director Stephen Mills and set to music by Phillip Glass, should be worth seeing for its sets and costumes alone.

http://www.balletaustin.org/atb/Hamlet.php
The Long Center, February 13-15

Counting to 4

If you forgot how to do it, Feist can remind you:

Analection.

Tomorrow is the presidential election. This has absolutely nothing to do with Analecta Literary Journal, except that this is postmodern America and everything has to do with everything. No matter if you are black, white, Jewish, Asian, a Bible-beater, a wife-beater, an egg-beater or a kangaroo, everyone/thing will feel the ripples sent round the earth by major cable news networks and Democratic live blogs tomorrow — and therein lies the node (apologies in advance for the xenophobia here)! Have you ever noticed that Republicans don't live blog? Republicans certainly write; do they write for literary journals? One more question: is poetry democratic? Or post-democratic? Nine out of ten Philip Larkins say yes.

Rock the vote, etc. etc. etc.

Allison Bechdel @Bookpeople

Friday, Nov. 7th. [link]

Also, the new imperial presidency, over at NYRB [link]. "Money quote":

Cheney's ruling passion appears to be a love of presidential power. Go under the surface a little and this reveals itself as something more mysterious: a ceaseless desire of power after power. It is a quality of the will that seems accidentally tied to an office, a country, or a given system of political arrangements.

Check it out. Don't forget to vote.

The Music of Regret- Laurie Simmons