Comments for boswestblog.com http://boswestblog.com by Ben Oswest Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:49:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 Comment on Henrietta Rose-Innes introduces The New Suffolk Hymnbook by Rose Secrets Revealed. | 7Wins.eu http://boswestblog.com/2006/11/09/henrietta-rose-innes-introduces-the-new-suffolk-hymnbook/#comment-12276 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:42:37 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2006/11/09/henrietta-rose-innes-introduces-the-new-suffolk-hymnbook/#comment-12276 [...] [...] […] […]

]]> Comment on Against Poets & Writers by Katrina Stonoff http://boswestblog.com/2006/10/07/against-poets-writers/#comment-11643 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:21:30 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2006/10/07/against-poets-writers/#comment-11643 It gets even worse, Ben. About a year ago, I started getting P&W at my P.O. Box even though I never ordered it. A couple of months ago, I got an invoice like yours. I sent it back with a note "Please cancel" or something like that. Two weeks ago, I got a letter that was threatening to report me to a credit agency. I sent it back with a note that I never ordered the magazine and was never going to renew it. Yesterday, I got the "fifth attempt" to contact me about my "over payment for the subscription I ordered" (note: I did NOT order it). But if I'll just send my payment now, I can be back in "good standing." UGH! It gets even worse, Ben. About a year ago, I started getting P&W at my P.O. Box even though I never ordered it. A couple of months ago, I got an invoice like yours. I sent it back with a note “Please cancel” or something like that.

Two weeks ago, I got a letter that was threatening to report me to a credit agency. I sent it back with a note that I never ordered the magazine and was never going to renew it.

Yesterday, I got the “fifth attempt” to contact me about my “over payment for the subscription I ordered” (note: I did NOT order it). But if I’ll just send my payment now, I can be back in “good standing.”

UGH!

]]> Comment on Adam Habib Tastes Democracy and Governance, USA-Style by Adam Hall http://boswestblog.com/2006/10/24/adam-habib-tastes-democracy-and-governance-usa-style/#comment-8869 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:01:52 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2006/10/24/adam-habib-tastes-democracy-and-governance-usa-style/#comment-8869 Because he is a courier for terrorist funds and a well compensated launderer? Because he is a courier for terrorist funds and a well compensated launderer?

]]> Comment on In a Green Man Minute: Devendra Banhart by Rustum http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/30/in-a-green-man-minute-devendra-banhart/#comment-8003 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:43:52 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/30/in-a-green-man-minute-devendra-banhart/#comment-8003 Yes,so there I was, browsing the Guardian, and what should I see? http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/features/story/0,,2188577,00.html A report on your bearded folky... Yes,so there I was, browsing the Guardian, and what should I see?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/features/story/0,,2188577,00.html

A report on your bearded folky…

]]> Comment on Adam Habib Tastes Democracy and Governance, USA-Style by pol-oip http://boswestblog.com/2006/10/24/adam-habib-tastes-democracy-and-governance-usa-style/#comment-7854 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:07:29 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2006/10/24/adam-habib-tastes-democracy-and-governance-usa-style/#comment-7854 Too obvious! Too obvious!

]]> Comment on Mary Watson Wins Caine Prize by BOOK SA - News http://boswestblog.com/2006/07/12/mary-watson-wins-caine-prize/#comment-6823 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:23:51 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2006/07/12/mary-watson-wins-caine-prize/#comment-6823 [...] Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and JM Coetzee - the four African winners of literature’s grandest laurel, the Nobel, are the Caine Prizes’ patrons. South Africa’s hopes were resting on Henrietta Rose-Innes, for her story “Bad Places”; local author Mary Watson won the prize last year. [...] […] Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and JM Coetzee - the four African winners of literature’s grandest laurel, the Nobel, are the Caine Prizes’ patrons. South Africa’s hopes were resting on Henrietta Rose-Innes, for her story “Bad Places”; local author Mary Watson won the prize last year. […]

]]> Comment on A Token of Consolation by Louis Greenberg http://boswestblog.com/2007/05/03/a-token-of-consolation/#comment-6792 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:35:16 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2007/05/03/a-token-of-consolation/#comment-6792 I sympathise (as one who didn't even make the longlist of that award: I wasn't invited to the dance for purely technical reasons, I console myself.) But do spare a moment to think how it feels to be the only book on your shortlist NOT to win a prize. This after all the other nominees were panned publicly by one of the judges. I was already planning a gown-and-tux buying outing for the gala event. Well I can darn well wear my tux while watching Friends reruns, see if I care. It's a circus, and it takes years of conditioning, it seems. I sympathise (as one who didn’t even make the longlist of that award: I wasn’t invited to the dance for purely technical reasons, I console myself.)

But do spare a moment to think how it feels to be the only book on your shortlist NOT to win a prize. This after all the other nominees were panned publicly by one of the judges. I was already planning a gown-and-tux buying outing for the gala event. Well I can darn well wear my tux while watching Friends reruns, see if I care.

It’s a circus, and it takes years of conditioning, it seems.

]]> Comment on Poetry and Music at Launch of My Ousie is ‘n Blom by Mira http://boswestblog.com/2006/09/08/poetry-and-music-at-launch-of-my-ousie-is-n-blom/#comment-6739 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:17:31 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2006/09/08/poetry-and-music-at-launch-of-my-ousie-is-n-blom/#comment-6739 This email is for Liesel Kruger. Is this the Liesel that lived in kagoshima japan with me? Email me if you can. Thanks! This email is for Liesel Kruger. Is this the Liesel that lived in kagoshima japan with me? Email me if you can. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Sound Bites by Luke http://boswestblog.com/2007/05/20/sound-bites/#comment-6686 Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:12:32 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2007/05/20/sound-bites/#comment-6686 Another fine review. I'm printing these out to keep them I enjoy them so much. Thanks, Ben. Luke Another fine review. I’m printing these out to keep them I enjoy them so much. Thanks, Ben. Luke

]]> Comment on Amateur Riktus Photography by Holtmann http://boswestblog.com/2007/04/29/amateur-riktus-photography/#comment-6568 Tue, 01 May 2007 05:43:48 +0000 http://boswestblog.com/2007/04/29/amateur-riktus-photography/#comment-6568 Luke, I just think Ben's nerve is astounding: he had the impudence to lie to Jacques Derrida, known for his ideas about "presence" ("ghosts are everywhere where there is watching") and for prohibiting all public photos of himself until 1979. That Ben's lie enabled him to capture the late philosopher -- who was giving a lecture on the word "forgive," of all things -- is a kind of sweet irony. And I love picturing Coetzee "sitting on the floor, at the master's feet"! Luke, I just think Ben’s nerve is astounding: he had the impudence to lie to Jacques Derrida, known for his ideas about “presence” (”ghosts are everywhere where there is watching”) and for prohibiting all public photos of himself until 1979. That Ben’s lie enabled him to capture the late philosopher — who was giving a lecture on the word “forgive,” of all things — is a kind of sweet irony.

And I love picturing Coetzee “sitting on the floor, at the master’s feet”!

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