{"id":6851,"date":"2010-02-28T03:22:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T02:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2013-02-03T04:14:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T04:14:06","slug":"weekend-links-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/28\/weekend-links-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/balfour_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"balfour.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/balfour.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will at <a href=\"http:\/\/ajourneyroundmyskull.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Journey Round My Skull<\/a> turned up this hand-coloured picture from Ronald Balfour&#8217;s illustrated <em>Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t<\/em> some of whose other drawings were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/12\/11\/ronald-balfours-rubaiyat\/\" target=\"_self\">featured here recently<\/a>. That distant volcano is a curious detail. Related: Golden Age Comic Book Stories posted plates from <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/willy-pogany-1882-1955-rubaiyat-of-omar_23.html\" target=\"_blank\">Willy Pog\u00e1ny&#8217;s edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Authors on authors: China Mi\u00e9ville on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20100315\/mieville\/print\" target=\"_blank\">JG Ballard<\/a>; Rodrigo Fres\u00e1n on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granta.com\/Online-Only\/Borges-and-Me-and-Me\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Luis Borges<\/a>; AS Byatt on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/feb\/27\/as-byatt-alice-in-wonderland\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Carroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Events: Alan Moore &amp; Sunn O)))&#8217;s Stephen O&#8217;Malley present <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twmuseums.org.uk\/laing\/thingstoseeanddo\/event\/2010\/03\/13\/alan-moore-stephen-o-malley\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Simultaneous Conjugation of Four Spirits in a Room<\/em><\/a> at the Laing Art Gallery on March 13th, 2010 (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurmag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur<\/a>); in October <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weirdstone.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Weirdstone<\/em><\/a> will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Alan Garner&#8217;s <em>The Weirdstone of Brisingamen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New blogs: <a href=\"http:\/\/wonderkabinet.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wonder Kabinet \/ Wunderkammer<\/a>, &#8220;curiosities, ephemera, and fragments from <em>The Cutting Room Floor<\/em> and Evan J Peterson&#8221;; <a href=\"http:\/\/penciltool.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pencil Tool<\/a>, a Tumblr by Charity Pomaybo; and another Tumblr from <a href=\"http:\/\/mountain7.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain*7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/supervert.com\/perversity_think_tank\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Perversity Think Tank<\/em><\/a> is a new book from Supervert. Download it for free or order the delicious limited edition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Casual Optimist lists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casualoptimist.com\/?p=3719\" target=\"_blank\">10+ Flickr Groups for Book Design and Inspiration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Via <a href=\"http:\/\/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BibliOdyssey<\/a>: 400 woodcuts by <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.usfca.edu\/cdm4\/browse.php?CISOROOT=\/p264101coll6\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Gill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;At least in self-abuse \/ There&#8217;s a little dignity&#8230;&#8221; Song of the week was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FWpdZ8ebCgo\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hands 2 Take<\/em><\/a> by The Flying Lizards from their second album, <em>Fourth Wall<\/em> (1981). I bought this when it came out but hadn&#8217;t listened to it for years. Thrilling, urgent stuff with the fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Patti+Palladin\" target=\"_blank\">Patti Palladin<\/a> on vocals. Play loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will at A Journey Round My Skull turned up this hand-coloured picture from Ronald Balfour&#8217;s illustrated Rub\u00e1iy\u00e1t some of whose other drawings were featured here recently. That distant volcano is a curious detail. Related: Golden Age Comic Book Stories posted plates from Willy Pog\u00e1ny&#8217;s edition. \u2022 Authors on authors: China Mi\u00e9ville on JG Ballard; Rodrigo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/28\/weekend-links-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,27,4,48,11,3],"tags":[1041,634,103,1031,1042,1036,1032,1038,1035,1213,137,1483,114,1043,1040,1033,858,1034,2147,1037,1039,2198],"class_list":["post-6851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-borges","category-design","category-illustrators","category-miscellaneous","category-music","tag-a-journey-round-my-skull","tag-alan-garner","tag-alan-moore","tag-as-byatt","tag-bibliodyssey","tag-charity-pomaybo","tag-china-mieville","tag-eric-gill","tag-evan-j-peterson","tag-golden-age-comic-book-stories","tag-jg-ballard","tag-jorge-luis-borges","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-mountain7","tag-patti-palladin","tag-rodrigo-fresan","tag-ronald-balfour","tag-stephen-omalley","tag-sunn-o","tag-supervert","tag-the-flying-lizards","tag-willy-pogany"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1Mv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}