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3:AM Magazine —

Jim Carroll, seminal punk poet in the “outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs,” and author of The Basketball Diaries has died. Stephen Elliott writes a fine tribute to Carroll in The Rumpus.

1 comment 14/09/2009

forces of geek —

Hey people, the summer is coming to an end (I have to go back to school tomorrow!), and we all know what that means… IT’S EMMY TIME! As usual, E! started their coverage at 6, and it was, as usual, a whole lotta nuthin’. Ryan Seacrest and that bobble head, Giuliana Rancic just blathered on and on about what people are wearing, and who will be the next judge on American Idol (I think Seacrest plugged...

1 comment 30/08/2010

enthusiasm —

(via Silliman’s Blog) Possibly wrong to bring it up in an RIP box, but: whilst peering into the depths of the David Shankbone portrait on Silliman’s Blog, it struck me that if anyone were planning to make a film of Carroll’s life (and yes, I know there’s already the Basketball Diaries movie with DiCaprio, which I [...]

1 comment 14/09/2009