Its been a year since I've posted on this place. I promise to come back ( Read more... )

To read Henry Miller while being a suburban wunderkind perched on a suburban back porch, drinking coffee, eating cake, ah to be a bohemian. Memories of Paris. Being stupid again ( Read more... )

Folks, I have about a zillion fishtanks complete with fish and various aquatic plants. They are going to be in a dumpster on October 20th. If you or someone you know (that is not flaky) would like them, let me know. The plants can (and have been for fifty years, so I know its true) be shipped in wet newspaper throughout the continental United ( Read more... )

Recently read/watched/happened things:

state of things (obvious)
Italo Calvino (If On A Winter's Night A Traveler...)
J.G. Ballard ("Concentration City")
conversations with Tom Matthew about dystopian technological future,
The 400 Blows (platonic love, hands ( Read more... )

I just watched "Communion" with my sister. It is pretty ridiculous. Christopher Walken is Whitley Streiber, the abductee. At the climax of the movie, he dresses up in a black suit with a funny hat and goes to see them. They dance for him, give him high-fives and then explain how he is a chosen one. I still have residual xenophobia when I'm in the ( Read more... )

I am waiting to hear back about a job working on a tugboat in Philadelphia-it will happen, they say, or something similar will happen. Its the union people saying this, dirty-minded people that talk to me about the blowjobs of Jersey girls as soon as I walk into the Union Hall, as I am now a member of the Longshoreman's Union(I will slash you with ( Read more... )

What we're basically demonstrating is the unusual phonetic similarity between the Dutch language and our own.

Courtesy of the best radio station: http://www.wfmu.org/.

Three days in the wilderness, proof of the existence of god, ascetic music listening habits, "skinlessness," digital vs. analog, ghosts, myths of Brittany, and weird metaphors-the demanding Joanna Newsom interview/article that you have always wanted to read.

These maps are just crazy:

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

and this


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These maps are just crazy:

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

and this


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