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1906
Reading San Francisco, As it Was, As it Is, and How to See It by Helen Throop Purdy, an amazing woman who lived in my house here in the Western Addition at the time of the 1906 earthquake, and I have been fascinated with her account of it. Many of her details are clearly based on her own experience, and her portrayal of the cheerful black humor ( Read more... ) -
Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski
French sculptor, painter, and installation artist, best known for his work using old and found photographs. Boltanski uses the detritus of everyday life - wrapping paper, biscuit tins, clothes, yearbook photos - to create pieces that focus on death, childhood, loss, and memory.
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jarvis/ ali g : keep off the crack
because i have had this stuck in my head all day...
and because it has made me 1000 times more obsessed with jarvis cocker than i already am ordinarily...
and because it's fucking funny
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poofect!
...So, the other day I was in line at Walgreens and spied this stuffed inanity called Mr. Wonderful ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
i have gotten absolutely nothing done today.... and am still procrastinating very, very well.
started the day having my coffee infront of a history channel program about scheherezade and the thousand and one arabian nights, which still has my hackles up. i think i am going to do a series of documentaries on american folk tales (y'know, johnny ( Read more... ) -
Dream # 2
I hack someone to death with one of those iron pokers that you keep by the fireplace.
Of particular aesthetic interest is the difference in feeling between hacking into harder areas like the lower leg, softer bits like in the side below the ribs, and the sort of m&m's-like feeling of piercing through the skull and into the brain.
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Dream # 1
Dream # 1:
So, I am at the doctor's office, and the good doctor tells me that, in his esteemed opinion... I need to get laid more often.
I then realize that the doctor is, in fact, Chevy Chase.
OK, kids, analyze away....
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