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About Me
After a decade of life on the East Coast, near the centers of Intellectual and Cultural Life, Count Fosco is cast out. He takes up residence in California to begin anew. Fosco Lives! is the journal of Fosco's new life.
Fosco Lives! follows Fosco's pursuit of pleasures sensual and intellectual. His blog covers the breadth of his interests: gay life, food, books, art, popular culture, travel, music. Regardless of the topic, Fosco aims to share a perspective both humane and civilized. Join him.
Fosco Lives! follows Fosco's pursuit of pleasures sensual and intellectual. His blog covers the breadth of his interests: gay life, food, books, art, popular culture, travel, music. Regardless of the topic, Fosco aims to share a perspective both humane and civilized. Join him.
Thoughts on Exile
Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,
Said then the lost Archangel, this the seat
That we must change for Heaven?
(Milton, Paradise Lost)
"Exile must be a terrible thing," said Norton sympathetically.
"Actually," said Amalfitano, "now I see it as a natural movement, something that, in its own way, helps to abolish fate, or what is generally thought of as fate."
"But exile," said Pelletier, "is full of inconveniences, of skips and breaks that essentially keep recurring and interfere with anything you try to do that's important."
"That's just what I mean by abolishing fate," said Amalfitano.
(Roberto Bolaño, 2666)
Said then the lost Archangel, this the seat
That we must change for Heaven?
(Milton, Paradise Lost)
"Exile must be a terrible thing," said Norton sympathetically.
"Actually," said Amalfitano, "now I see it as a natural movement, something that, in its own way, helps to abolish fate, or what is generally thought of as fate."
"But exile," said Pelletier, "is full of inconveniences, of skips and breaks that essentially keep recurring and interfere with anything you try to do that's important."
"That's just what I mean by abolishing fate," said Amalfitano.
(Roberto Bolaño, 2666)
Contact Fosco
Email Fosco and he may feature your comment or question in the exciting upcoming feature: Fosco's MailSac.
Blogs by People I Know
- The Gideonse Bible, by my college classmate Ted Gideonse
- Osti Music, including the Blog/Journal of Composer John Mackey
- Todd Draper, one of my oldest friends, most recently blogging about things annoying.
- David Lat, one of my college roommates. Also something of a professional blog pioneer.
- It's Jelly Tofu, live from Hong Kong.
- kungfuramone loves history. And tattoos. And rabbits.
- The Goddard Family is absolutely brilliant. Mama Jean blogs about real estate. Joanna blogs about life in NYC and beautiful things. Nick blogs about the future of fuel efficiency.
- Fosco's former student Mere is a connoisseur of human folly.
- The blog of the unknown "abacus" is back.
- Jill is absolutely fabulous and so is Stella's Roar.
- My friend and colleague Evan Calder Williams will blow your mind at Socialism And/Or Barbarism; or perhaps he will annoy you with X avec Y. Either way.
- My friend and colleague Calvin McMillan blogs about Hong Kong film and related matters (like his smokin' hot girlfriend) at Ronin on Empty.
Blogs I Read
- afrohomo
- Another Kind of Nerd
- Cake Wrecks
- Capitolism
- Christopher Hayes
- Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler
- CommonDreams
- Critical Mass
- Deadspin
- FABULON
- FiveThirtyEight
- Gawker
- GayUganda
- God of Biscuits
- Gridskipper
- Guanabee
- Idolator
- Improvisatrice
- Inland Emperor
- IvyGate
- Jean-Georges Vongerichten
- Jezebel
- Joe. My. God.
- Mashuptown
- Michael Berube's American Airspace
- No Salad As A Meal
- NoFo
- Protest 8
- Queer the Pitch
- Sex and the Ivy
- Steamboats Are Ruining Everything
- Supervalent Thought
- The Daily Beast
- The Daily Dish
- The Rest Is Noise
- Urban Pug
Links of Fun
- The Nietzsche Family Circus
- States that are not Midwestern, from McSweeney's.
- Marmaduke Explained, a public service by Joe Mathlete
- Personal "On Notice" Board Generator, for those of us who wish we were Stephen Colbert
- Have You Got Scurvy?
- Church Sign Generator
- Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
- Dr. House, is it lupus? It's not lupus.
- Zac Ephron please stop tanning
- Pa Rappa the Rapper learns to drive.
- Welcome to _____, a compilation of town signs from across the US.
- Adam's Block, streaming video from one of the worst neighborhoods in San Francisco.
- What is your blog's personality?
Fosco's Shared Items
Best of Fosco
- On Playboy's "Girls of the Big 12" Pictorial (Fosco's most viewed post. Thanks, Google.)
- On his new friend, Anne Hathaway
- On Mormons
- On In-N-Out Burger
- A visit to the Matthew Shepard fence
- On the Mumbai attacks
- Are we human? Or are we dancer?
- On Canadian Thanksgiving
- At the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Blog Archive
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- Gallant Link
- Saturday Story Hour: Mavis Gallant
- Rounding Up Food, Because Why Not?
- Teens Can Make Anything Evil
- I'm working on a dream
- Birthday Panda for Jeremy
- My Favorite April Fool
- "Tastes Like Vanessa..."
- Autism, Visual Thinking, and Justifying the Humani...
- Musical Abuse (I just don't argue any more.)
- Every Thing That Lives Is Holy
- Keeps Your Brains Warm?
- My Heart with Pleasure Fills
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Credits
The title of this blog, Fosco Lives! is borrowed from a chapter by A. D. Hutter, which appears in the collection Reality's Dark Light. This is the only similarity that this blog bears to what is, frankly, a rather odd little chapter.
Information on the engraving in the title bar can be found in this post.
Uncredited direct quotations occur occasionally on this blog, but they should be obvious to the reasonable reader.
Most of the pictures have been shamelessly stolen using Google Image Search.
All other content on this blog is the product of Fosco!
Information on the engraving in the title bar can be found in this post.
Uncredited direct quotations occur occasionally on this blog, but they should be obvious to the reasonable reader.
Most of the pictures have been shamelessly stolen using Google Image Search.
All other content on this blog is the product of Fosco!
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