April 2: Special Follow-Ups Edition

As a fan of neo-crooner Michael Buble (PMD, May 8, 2008), I'm glad to see the New York Times's excellent critic Stephen Holden giving him respectful attention:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/arts/music/22buble.html

The blog PoemShape is on an impassioned mission to demonstrate that Shakespeare did not write any of the play Double Falsehood (PMD, March 16):

http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/double-falsehood-%E2%80%A2-its-not-shakespeare/

http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/double-falsehood-%E2%80%A2-tho-dekker-tho-middleton/

More evidence that illustrator/animator Alexandre Alexeieff (PMD, March 3; December31, 2009) is a terrific artist:

http://therumpus.net/2010/03/suffocating-in-the-villa-des-charmes/

With notice in the New York Times, Birdemic: Shock and Terror (PMD, March 3) is officially a schlock sensation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/movies/25birdemic.html

Among the more famous animals sent into space (PMD, March 16) was Ham the Chimp:

http://tsutpen.blogspot.com/2010/03/faces-of-science-23.html

Scott Esposito thinks that Cameroonian novelist Leonora Miano (PMD, March 19) doth protest too much:

http://conversationalreading.com/when-translations-happen-to-the-wrong-writers

Design Scene offers a cool video of the Porta Volta Fondazione Feltrinelli project in Milan (PMD, March 25):

http://www.designscene.net/2010/03/video-of-porta-volta-fondazione.html

Being able to eat and drink inside art installations (PMD, February 25) is apparently all the rage, especially in Canada:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=36939

I like the fact that this project is called "The Dork Porch"! I'm there.

GreenCine interviews Portuguese film director Pedro Costa (PMD, March 29) in an excellent podcast:

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/007775.html

Leonard Pitts shares my horror at what Internet discussion boards have become (PMD, March 27):

For every person who offers some trenchant observation on the point at hand, there are a dozen who are so far off point they couldn't find their way back with a compass and road map.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/31/1555967/anonymity-brings-out-the-worst.html