Some remarks about some things
notes, investigations, digressions galore
Ted Burke
- Location
- San Diego, California,
- Birthday
- July 15
- Title
- Bookseller, writer, musician
- Bio
- Bookseller, musician, writer and poet living and working in San Diego, California. His writing has appeared in the San Diego Reader, Kicks, San Diego Door, Roadwork, Revolt in Style,and City Works.His poems have been included in the anthologies Small Rain: 8 poets from San Diego (1996,DG Wills Books),Ocean Hiway: eight poets in San Diego (1981,Wild Mustard Press) , and is the author of many chapbooks, including Hand Grenade, Open Every Window,No One Home and City Times,limited editions published by his own Old House Press.
MY RECENT POSTS
- ALVIN LEE
March 11, 2013 12:28AM - David Shields lives on the
edge of other people's lives
February 20, 2013 12:53AM - Dean Young and the End of
Days
February 20, 2013 12:50AM - Traci Brimhall burns the
marriage contract
February 20, 2013 12:47AM - Turn that shit down, Granpa
February 09, 2013 11:55PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Rand was smitten by
Monroe's persona no less than
any other
star struck kid and
p…”
March 08, 2012 06:46PM - “@George Hoffman:
Actually, Mailer didn't refer
to himself
as
"Aquarius"…”
January 01, 2012 07:12PM - “Mailer's meditation on
violence and evil will not be
every
one's idea of a good
n…”
January 01, 2012 07:07PM - “@Miguella: His
contradictions were what made
his brilliance
exasperating; I
sup…”
December 17, 2011 10:40AM - “Thanks wendy. It's not
that I'm against subjecting a
work to
critical
examination…”
August 14, 2011 06:44PM
Ted Burke's Links
March 08, 2012 06:46PM
“Rand was smitten by Monroe's persona no less than any other star struck kid and projects her own exaggerated and balmy ideas of genius unto yet another…”
About: Ayn Rand About Marilyn Monroe
“Rand was smitten by Monroe's persona no less than any other star struck kid and projects her own exaggerated and balmy ideas of genius unto yet another…”
About: Ayn Rand About Marilyn Monroe
January 01, 2012 07:12PM
“@George Hoffman: Actually, Mailer didn't refer to himself as "Aquarius" until "Of a Fire on the Moon", which came out a few years…”
About: Norman Mailer's Combustible Ego
“@George Hoffman: Actually, Mailer didn't refer to himself as "Aquarius" until "Of a Fire on the Moon", which came out a few years…”
About: Norman Mailer's Combustible Ego
January 01, 2012 07:07PM
“Mailer's meditation on violence and evil will not be every one's idea of a good novel to read on the beach, but An American Dream is a fully realized m…”
About: Norman Mailer's Combustible Ego
“Mailer's meditation on violence and evil will not be every one's idea of a good novel to read on the beach, but An American Dream is a fully realized m…”
About: Norman Mailer's Combustible Ego
December 17, 2011 10:40AM
“@Miguella: His contradictions were what made his brilliance exasperating; I suppose he regarded his task was to challenge everyone who read or heard…”
About: Christopher Hitchens is Dead
“@Miguella: His contradictions were what made his brilliance exasperating; I suppose he regarded his task was to challenge everyone who read or heard…”
About: Christopher Hitchens is Dead
August 14, 2011 06:44PM
“Thanks wendy. It's not that I'm against subjecting a work to critical examination, it's just that we seem to live an a time of instant opinions. Much o…”
About: REMARKS ARE NOT LITERATURE, NOR ARE THEY CRITICISM
“Thanks wendy. It's not that I'm against subjecting a work to critical examination, it's just that we seem to live an a time of instant opinions. Much o…”
About: REMARKS ARE NOT LITERATURE, NOR ARE THEY CRITICISM
June 14, 2011 03:03AM
“The alternative is up to each of us, individually. It is one thing to have a hero while young because he or she sets an example of how to be your own p…”
About: Fuck Dylan
“The alternative is up to each of us, individually. It is one thing to have a hero while young because he or she sets an example of how to be your own p…”
About: Fuck Dylan
June 12, 2011 10:36AM
“Greatly appreciated, Charlie. Here is the Mark Strand poem that inspired these paragraphs: http://ww w.slate.com/id/2296345”
About: Paragraphs for Mark Strand
“Greatly appreciated, Charlie. Here is the Mark Strand poem that inspired these paragraphs: http://ww w.slate.com/id/2296345”
About: Paragraphs for Mark Strand
April 17, 2011 10:08AM
“@old new lefty: Well, I did mention that I couldn't say that all Republicans are mean due to an accumulation of anecdotal evidence that there are decen…”
About: Why Are Republicans So Mean?
“@old new lefty: Well, I did mention that I couldn't say that all Republicans are mean due to an accumulation of anecdotal evidence that there are decen…”
About: Why Are Republicans So Mean?
April 15, 2011 04:03PM
“@justanotherAJ: Actually, I can truthfully say that I rarely gave less than 100 percent in how I helped my customers through the years; my people skills…”
About: I killed the Bookstore
“@justanotherAJ: Actually, I can truthfully say that I rarely gave less than 100 percent in how I helped my customers through the years; my people skills…”
About: I killed the Bookstore
April 15, 2011 04:03PM
“@justanotherAJ: Actually, I can truthfully say that I rarely gave less than 100 percent in how I helped my customers through the years; my people skills…”
About: I killed the Bookstore
“@justanotherAJ: Actually, I can truthfully say that I rarely gave less than 100 percent in how I helped my customers through the years; my people skills…”
About: I killed the Bookstore
February 25, 2011 10:04AM
“The hyperlinks can be irritating at times, but no more so than print ads ever were in the daily newspaper that forced you to turn the last and least ac…”
About: NY Times' Hyperactive Hyperlinking Must End!
“The hyperlinks can be irritating at times, but no more so than print ads ever were in the daily newspaper that forced you to turn the last and least ac…”
About: NY Times' Hyperactive Hyperlinking Must End!
January 10, 2011 12:40AM
“Thank you, Kathy. I am glad you enjoyed the post.”
About: About the Velvet Hammer
“Thank you, Kathy. I am glad you enjoyed the post.”
About: About the Velvet Hammer
November 26, 2010 09:47AM
“Jonathan Franzen is a major novelist who seems fated to be remembered for being a weenie as much as being an important writer. The eclipse of the nove…”
About: Do Novels Still Matter?
“Jonathan Franzen is a major novelist who seems fated to be remembered for being a weenie as much as being an important writer. The eclipse of the nove…”
About: Do Novels Still Matter?
April 30, 2010 10:09AM
“I saw the interview as well, and I think it's very much an issue that an organizatin that had a hand in writing the Arizona legislation has had race-ba…”
About: Rachel Maddow roasts President of FAIR--But is she FAIR?
“I saw the interview as well, and I think it's very much an issue that an organizatin that had a hand in writing the Arizona legislation has had race-ba…”
About: Rachel Maddow roasts President of FAIR--But is she FAIR?
March 02, 2010 01:21AM
“It's heartening, I suppose , that "Shutter Island" is a hit because it suggests an audience for a smarter major release, but that's slim cons…”
About: Open Salon box office in review (02/28/10)
“It's heartening, I suppose , that "Shutter Island" is a hit because it suggests an audience for a smarter major release, but that's slim cons…”
About: Open Salon box office in review (02/28/10)
February 13, 2010 10:01PM
“I think there are a block of otherwise smart people who distrust and actively dislike anything that suggests elegant or lyric prose writing. John Updik…”
About: Point Omega by Don DeLillo
“I think there are a block of otherwise smart people who distrust and actively dislike anything that suggests elegant or lyric prose writing. John Updik…”
About: Point Omega by Don DeLillo
February 13, 2010 11:25AM
“You're not a drone for not being drawn to DeLillo; he either appeals to you or he doesn't, as is the case with any other serious (or less serious) writ…”
About: Point Omega by Don DeLillo
“You're not a drone for not being drawn to DeLillo; he either appeals to you or he doesn't, as is the case with any other serious (or less serious) writ…”
About: Point Omega by Don DeLillo
January 24, 2010 05:09PM
“The absence of Paglia's bombast won't diminish Salon's quality at all, and I'd hope that Joan Walsh and others who make decisions regarding the magazin…”
About: CAMILLE PAGLIA'S DISAPPEARANCE
“The absence of Paglia's bombast won't diminish Salon's quality at all, and I'd hope that Joan Walsh and others who make decisions regarding the magazin…”
About: CAMILLE PAGLIA'S DISAPPEARANCE
December 15, 2009 12:33AM
“Much obliged for the correction of the drug's name, and note the change in orignial post. You get the gold star.”
About: Artificial yes. Intelligent, no.
“Much obliged for the correction of the drug's name, and note the change in orignial post. You get the gold star.”
About: Artificial yes. Intelligent, no.
December 05, 2009 01:34PM
“The irony for pound was that for all his emphasis on precision and clarity in images, free of outworn "literary" rhetoric that made poetry…”
About: Pound or Frost?
“The irony for pound was that for all his emphasis on precision and clarity in images, free of outworn "literary" rhetoric that made poetry…”
About: Pound or Frost?
October 23, 2009 08:12PM
“I wonder why you bother to ponder the distinction between a fiction created to heighten a visceral experience (and garner ratings) and the punch in…”
About: Grey's Anatomy vs. Real Death
“I wonder why you bother to ponder the distinction between a fiction created to heighten a visceral experience (and garner ratings) and the punch in…”
About: Grey's Anatomy vs. Real Death
Verbal Remedy AKA Denise
John Hughes
Dorinda D.
Paul Levinson
Joan Walsh
Karen Templer
Salon.com