chronicles of a green school trustee

Francis Alÿs: The Thief

amazing Heriberto Yepez on Arnold and much more

Jenny Colgan defends Scottish cuisine

Canadian spelling

Hoatzin - Relic of Prehistory - Article by Adrian Warren

About the size of a rather slender, upright pheasant, the hoatzin has an untidy crest of feathers, blood-red eyes encircled by bright blue skin, a long neck and long tail feathers. But perhaps the most interesting characteristic is the presence of claws on the wings and these, although useless to the heavy adult bird, are employed by the youngster to clamber among the branches near the nest- just as Archaeopteryx must have done so many millions of years ago.

The main function of the wing claws, it seems, is to assist the young hoatzin in times of crisis.

Danza Macabra

Castle of Blood

Urban Dictionary

Baiting Babel

What was the deal with Jimmy Carter and the killer rabbit?

fleeing from predators

litterbox

Pat Metheny's classic Kenny G smackdown

Seattle Art Museum: Stories of Krishna

Boarlin

Virtual Tour of Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle

good if conventional view of Orson Welles

The Vietnam II Preflight Check        

Newcastle Island Pavilion

Newcastle Island

Our tenth anniversary today.

Coming in from a one am backyard under the plum tree cocktail with PC of T found a spider in a ball resting on the tallest icecube in the bourbon. My touching the edge of the cube gently caused it to unfold itself like a hand opening, and it sank bank waving into the drink, assuming as it sunk the same hunched posture. Fishing it out with a spoon I rested the now unconscious spider in a dry part of the sink. PC said I should have drunk it, that such a thing was considered "good luck". This morning, warming the mug for my coffee I saw the spider, who had climbed out of the sink and was now enjoying something sugary on the counter, but it had already started spinning, so was able to lift web and spider with a knitting needle and deposit it in the front porch planter. Off to Newcastle Island today.

Japanese Prints: The Dutch in Nagasaki

Reid--

see if this works and the 2oth is ideal
book shd be out
and an airprt run for dan
seems ideal

bad rockford today

Wednesdays in Buffalo @ 4 Plus Fall 2003 incl. Bernadette Mayer and I on Oct 24, a Friday

Towel Amnesty Day

Mars Trilogy Concordance

who controls the spice??

Hopefully the hyped new movie of the same name will send viewers back to David Williams' great 1997 "Thirteen".

Maybe they should be watching Queimada!

instead of the Battle of Algiers...

The 10 Best Mars Images Ever

Perfect Front Door

Two Poems by Steve Malmude

Philip Guston's Poem-Pictures

Steve Malmude: The Bundle: Selected Poems

76/03/12
FOUL ON THE FIRST PLAY
T: Stephen J. Cannell [19]
S: Chas. Floyd Johnson [2] & Dorothy L. Bailey
D: Lou Antonio [5]
Rockford's former parole officer, a con artist par excellence, tricks
him into investigating the shady dealings surrounding the cutthroat
competition for a pro-basketball franchise.
Marcus Hayes/O'Brien [1] . . . . . . . . . Lou Gossett [1]
Manny Stickells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dick Davalos
Martin Eastman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David White
Greg Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pepper Martin [1]

Steve Sorenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Ingersoll
Tom Corell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Al Ruscio [1]
Todd Morris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Mahon [1]
Commissioner Bob Tremayne. . . . . . . . . Chuck Bowman
Ray Fairchild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vincent Cobb
Receptionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pamela Serpe
Sherm Addison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Leasing Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Al Checco [1]
Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Winter
Janice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jayne Kennedy

The Smoke, 1753

Canuck pot: 'Crack of marijuana'

Illegal smiles: "... the smile amnesty will run out on November 3, Meunier said"

Selections from the Oprah Book Club or Episodes of Magnum P.I. ?

1. Death of the Flowers
2. River, Cross My Heart
3. The Arrow That Is Not Aimed
4. Songs in Ordinary Time
5. Going Home
6. Stones from the River
7. Echoes Of The Mind
8. A Lesson Before Dying
9. Let Me Hear The Music
10. The Pilot's Wife
11. Did You See the Sunrise?
12. Drowning Ruth
13. Open House
14. Autumn Warrior
15. Back Roads

1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14 are Magnum P.I. episodes

Arms And The Man--Iraq profiteering blog

Biscuit Henge

Butch Mushroom

Pearl Blauvelt

The Worst Journey in the World: " Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep them on until Christmas, and, save for a layer of the natural grease of the body, find them as clean as though they were new. It is more lonely than London, more secluded than any monastery, and the post comes but once a year. As men will compare the hardships of France, Palestine, or Mesopotamia, so it would be interesting to contrast the rival claims of the Antarctic as a medium of discomfort. A member of Campbell's party tells me that the trenches at Ypres were a comparative picnic. But until somebody can evolve a standard of endurance I am unable to see how it can be done. Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin."

CONTEXT: Martha Haas on Jean Rhys: "Yet her elusiveness is of a completely different kind from the tradition established by Stein, Barnes, Joyce, and Woolf, and for that she is perpetually ignored by critics of the experimental, even though she is also ignored by the critics of realism because she doesn't fit easily into a realistic tradition either. "

Neal Stephenson Rewrites History

Deep Beatle and Shostakovich listener Ian Macdonald passes: "I consider there are no experts on Shostakovich. The subject is too vast, our present knowledge too partial, and the requisite state of sympathetic insight into his life and work too underdeveloped for anyone to claim to be, or be regarded as, an expert on him . . . I certainly wouldn't, being at best an ephemeral agitator in the cause of truth . . ."

Robert Christgau's Hitchenesque decline

Lenny Bruce died for our sins

stripey guy

The Believer - Beth Orton: "It's an hour drive to beaches that look like muted over-exposed photographs, and countryside every shade of green you ever saw all at once. And the trees and bushes would have a kind of light fur a bit like skunk weed, and the trees seemed to glisten. Kissing was something I did a lot of. "

Greatest Animal Novelist of All Time?

We Have Ways of Making You Talk: "Admiral Jacoby’s rationale is fascinating: first of all, because there might be something the interrogators missed, or can find out if there are new suspects captured somewhere else sometime. And you wouldn’t want Padilla to have any sense of hope if they need to question him again: “Any delay in obtaining information from Padilla could have the severest consequences for national security and public safety.” Secondly—and this is what’s really creepy—because Padilla might reveal “sources and methods.” That is, he might talk about precisely those means that were used to make him talk, therefore he can never be allowed to talk at all.
"

Asian Historical Architecture

via Ron...

Lee Ann Brown in the Charlotte Observer

Sardine cans

Guston from Gusto

wish Ray Bradbury a Happy Birthday

The cat, mice, the weasel

"The cat is called musio, mouse-catcher, because it is the enemy of mice. It is commonly called catus, cat, from captura, the act of catching. Others say it gets the name from capto, because it catches mice with its sharp eyes. For it has such piercing sight that it overcomes the dark of night with the gleam of light from its eyes. As a result, the Greek word catus means sharp, or cunning. "

The Aberdeen Bestiary

Le Camembert Magique - Paris, 13th district, by night

Modern Library dust jacket designers/illustrators

Russian Utopia : depository

good amazon scarlatti list

Wanda Landowska

"In the preface to his first collection of keyboard works—a set of thirty sonatas he called Essercizi—Domenico Scarlatti warns the reader not to "expect any profound learning, but rather an ingenious jesting with art . . . therefore show yourself more human than critical, and then your pleasure will increase."

The Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti

Tristram Shandy: "'Tis an undercraft of authors to keep up a good understanding amongst words, as politicians do amongst men - not knowing how near they may be under a necessity of placing them to each other.' "

Honoré Daumier and His Lithographic Work

Nice Allmans essay: "When the Allman Brothers Band set out to make its first record, the world was falling apart. The Beatles were in their death throes. Led Zeppelin had introduced its savage, Druidian form of the blues. American pop music was swamped in psychedelia. Motown had been Spector-ized, and jazz was disoriented by the cerebral experiments of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. What the musical landscape needed was a revival, a movement that gathered up the fragments and gave meat to the poor in spirit. "

The Savage Rose - wonderful Danish anarchist band I loved in the 70's

blissblog: "And Jack White, for sure, excels at what he does--in the same way that a cabinet-maker, or an engraver, or someone who has mastered the art of crafting magic lanterns, excels at what they do. It’s just that there’s not that much call for it anymore. You can listen and feel your ingrained reflexes responding to the tug of that certain way of building with riffs and spacing, builds and dynamics. But then every so often (I find) one's old modernist instincts resurge and it’s like you’re in some dank old cellar and the music has the shuddery sensation of cobwebs on your skin, and you’re like ‘eeurrgh, yukyuk, get it off me get it off me’."

Advertising Posters from 1930's Shanghai

Okanagan Mountain Fire

"According to the preliminary plan, that means soaking the photos and clippings in the bleach and vinegar, shredding them, wrapping them in plastic and duct tape, and disposing of them at a location not yet chosen."

John Coplans, 83; Art Critic Who Turned Photographer Late in Life

LIFE Classic: Rock Parents

re Alan Gilbert: free downloads from DJ /rupture

& Muslimgauze

The Century Dictionary Online in DjVu ( little plug in you have to download is worth it)

Late Birthday prezzie from Rose. And from Lis a red tin Chinese restaurant cocktail tray sporting a carp wielding tot. I'm off under the plum trees.

nicest surprise on Steve Evans' reading list gathering is Alan Gilbert's choice of DJ /rupture and Muslimgauze

Where is Raed ?: "G. my friend got beaten up by US Army last night, he was handcuffed and had a bag put on his head. he was kicked several times and was made to lie on his face for a while. All he wanted to do was to take pictures and report on an attack, he works for the New York Times as a translator and fixer. He got more kicks for speaking english.
his sin: he looks Iraqi and has a beard.
story will be told, I need to get him drunk enough to get the whole thing out of him he doesn't want to talk. "

Trouts and Seasons of The Mountain Village - Paper Craft

Still Life With Bowl of Citrons

Sour Orange, Terrestrial Mollusk, and Larkspur

Egg

lime tree greener and handsomer than ever

The Julie/Julia Project--she's cooking her way through "Mastering the Art of French Cooking"

"Couch-surfing Rule No. 1 is that sometimes you're the surfer, sometimes you're the wave," he says.

Underground History - Disused Stations on London's Underground

"We feel it's a very solid case for some sort of mixed fermented beverage," says Mr. McGovern, a senior research scientist at the museum.

sheet music

Claudia Roden's Middle Eastern Orange Cake

2 large oranges, washed
6 eggs, beaten
250 g. ground almonds
250 g. sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder


Boil oranges in a little water in a covered saucepan for 2 hours. Allow to cool, then cut open, remove pips and chop roughly.

Preheat oven to 190ºC and butter and flour a springform tin.

Blend oranges and remaining ingredients thoroughly in a food processor. Pour batter into prepared tin. Bake for 1 hour. If cake is still very wet, cook a little longer. Cool in tin before gently turning out

vivid memoir of Steve Carey sent by Peter Cummings in Tsawassen

Music as speech

Eureka!

mermaids, merman, and sea nymphs

Bienvenue dans le monde fantastique des photographes Pierre & Gilles

As Brooklyn Slowly Drunkened (Ftrain.com)

The MacGillivray Art Collection

electric shepherd

Blackout Moon and Mars

Naturally anarchic hives contain a few dozen laying workers, and seem to function well. But by selective breeding, Oldroyd and his colleagues have got the egg-layers up to about 40% of the workforce. In these hives, breeding workers neglect their chores and the hives become decadent to the point of collapse. "They can barely feed themselves, and they do weird things like trying to raise queens out of male larvae," Oldroyd says.

Studdy-ing with Bonzo; A Site Dedicated to Bonzo Dog and George Studdy

New Wave Photos by Philippe Carly

Salon.com | The right wing's summer of hate: "decay ... failure (fail) ... collapse(ing) ... deeper ... crisis ... urgent(cy) ... destructive ... destroy ... sick ... pathetic ... lie ... liberal ... they/them ... unionized bureaucracy ... 'compassion' is not enough ... betray ... consequences ... limit(s) ... shallow ... traitors ... sensationalists ...
'endanger ... coercion ... hypocrisy ... radical ... threaten ... devour ... waste ... corruption ... incompetent ... permissive attitudes ... destructive ... impose ... self- serving ... greed ... ideological ... insecure ... anti-(issue): flag, family, child, jobs ... pessimistic ... excuses ... intolerant ...
'stagnation ... welfare ... corrupt ... selfish ... insensitive ... status quo ... mandate(s) ... taxes ... spend(ing) ... shame ... disgrace ... punish (poor ... ) ... bizarre ... cynicism ... cheat ... steal ... abuse of power ... machine ... bosses ... obsolete ... criminal rights ... red tape ... patronage.' "

Beach access

Overlap: Drew Gardner's Blog: "On the was back we ran into Nao, the guitar player in Nao's Superfortress, a band I used to play drums with. Nao said that there was some kind of mini-burningman scene in Tomkins Sq. Park Thurs night, with bonfires, drumming, and people dancing naked and burning their clothes. "

gail wight: past projects

Kirk Varnedoe, 57, Curator Who Changed the Modern's Collection and Thinking, Dies. (His work on the Northern Light show most important for me.)

Compendium of Lost Words

The Blackout

Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview with Alasdair Gray: "The description of how he at last joins the Nature Circus of Arizona--the new deal which can employ all the homeless of America and Europe--was proof that even Kafka could write a good ending out of a world like mine--that human government was redeemable."

CONTEXT: Janice Galloway Reading Alasdair Gray: "Even within Scotland, a country you'd think would be keen to develop more democratic analytic discourse on account of its own marginalization within the British literary establishment, this persists. Due to the extent of internalized second-class nationhood in Scotland which presupposes Scottish artistic status and priorities as naturally lesser (as opposed to different) to those of the English canon, it can actually be worse. " Gee...sounds familiar, but where?

Books | Founding father of the Scottish renaissance

Happy Birthday Madonna!

oh and last but not least 4. Jacques Tati: His Life and Art by David Bellos. Bellos' wonderfully capacious biography of Perec (he also translated "Life A User's Manual" ) is one of my favorite books, this one though not as big seems similarly detailed and photo-filled. Now to see if a 70mm print of "Playtime" is showing locally....

Power Outage Traced To Dim Bulb In White House

: "'Do not let smart children handle this book. It will help them pass examinations without reading anything else'"

three. The Company by Robert Littell

two. Claudia Roden - Book of Jewish Food

Birthday Book one: Alasdair Gray - Book of Prefaces

New Jersey Churchscape

The Daily Bleed: A Calendar Better Than Boiled Coffee! Timeline, Chronology, Labor, Radical, Arts, Literature, Authors, Poets, Anarchists...

Also born today

1432 Luigi Pulci Italy, poet (Morgante)
1688 Frederick-William I king of Prussia (1713-1740)
1769 Napoleon Bonaparte resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
1771 Sir Walter Scott Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
1785 Thomas De Quincey Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
1803 Sir James Douglas father of British Columbia
1845 Walter Crane England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
1856 J Keir Hardie 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1860 Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding 1st lady
1875 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
1879 Ethel Barrymore Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)
1887 Ferber Edna, Mich, writer (Showboat, Cimarron, Giant)
1888 T.E. Lawrence Tremadoc Wales, soldier/writer (aka Lawrence of Arabia)
1890 Jacques Ibert Paris France, composer (Escales)
1892 Louis-Victor due de Broglie France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
1893 Harlow H Curtice pres of General Motors (1953-8)
1898 Lillian Carter Pres Carter's mom
19-- Jim Lange St Paul Mn, TV host (Dating Game, Name the Tune)
19-- Jonathan Daniel rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
19-- Matt Kramer rocker (Saigon Kick-New World)
19-- Tom Williams Chicago Ill, actor (Nobody's Perfect)
1901 Arias Arnulfo 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68)
1904 Bill Baird Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
1912 Julia Child Pasadena Calif, chef (French Chef)
1912 Wendy Hiller actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield)
1915 Signe Hasso actress (Double Life)
1920 Huntz Hall actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game)
1922 Lukas Foss (Fuchs) Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie)
1923 Rose Marie NYC, actress (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1924 Phyllis Schlafly St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
1924 Robert Bolt playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago)
1925 Mike Connors Fresno Calif, actor (Joe Mannix-Mannix, Night Kill)
1926 Georgiann Johnson Decorah Iowa, actress (Marge-Mr Peepers)
1931 Janice Rule Norwood Ohio, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Doctor's Wife)
1933 Lori Nelson Santa Fe NM, actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire)
1935 Abby Dalton Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show)
1935 Jim Dale Broadway entertainer (Barnum, My One & Only)
1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr civil rights activist
1941 Don Rich Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw)
1943 Barbara Bouchet Reichenberg Czech, actress (Casino Royale)
1944 Linda Ellerbee Bryan Texas, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1945 Gene Upshaw NFL guard (Oakland), NFLPA leader
1946 Jimmy Webb Elk City Okla, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
1946 Kathryn Jean Whitmire Houston Texas, (4 time Mayor-Houston)
1947 Gerald Velez congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1947 Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)
1949 Ann Ryerson Wisc, actress (Pvt Carol Winter-Pvt Benjamin)
1950 Princess Anne England (daughter of Queen Elizabeth II)
1950 Tess Harper actress (Amityville 3D, Tender Mercies)
1955 Larry Mathews Burbank Calif, actor (Ritchie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1957 Zeljko Ivanek Yugoslavia, actor (Mass Appeal)
1960 Maureen "Peanut" Louie Harper SF, tennis player (Denver-1985)
1960 Tommy Aldridge heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man)
1961 Matt Johnson rocker (The The-Infected Soul Mining)
1964 MCA (Adam Yauch) rocker (The Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)

Compiler of this blog born 1958, exactly one day before Madonna.

Jordan: "Woke up when the motor of the fan started sputtering back up. "

"Call of the Wild" centennial: "'When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.' "

Clyde: "'I’m wiser than I’ve ever been,' he says with a smile. 'I always thought I was funky, I was built on funk. My goal was to be a machine, to be the John Henry of drums.'"

IAM Lyrics - L'Empire Du Cote Obscur: "I sweep away the little Ewoks like the wind sweeps away the dead
leaves"

Fives

Ben Katchor's favorite records (scroll)

nice interview with Zombie Rod Argent

I have all my dad's Ham Radio QSL cards (rescued from the damp basement) and must figure out a way to scan and preserve them. Some of them (esp those from 60's Eastern Europe) as interesting as anything on show here.

QSL COLLECTION

Gallery :: QSL-cards

SWL Shortwave Radio Listeners QSL Card Museum

August Highland's "Encyclopoetica"

Can you read this? Don't you wish you couldn't?

Zevon’s The Wind

Mooning Amtrak Trains, Southern California USA

When the Brain Grabs a Tune and Won't Let Go: "If I wasn't in the business of songwriting, I'd probably be seeing a doctor,' Mr. Diamond said. 'I've tried everything from cold showers to listening to other people's music, but nothing helps.'
Most of his songs spring from a melodic swatch of six notes repeating in his mind. 'I'll be driving or watching TV or having lunch, and it just invades,' he said. 'It's a horrible obsession, but it seems to have paid off.' "

Baron Munchausen Trade Cards

Bailey and Culley on Eskdale farming, 1794

James Hogg: poet and shepherd

stay up late!! Perseids set for sky show

Yahoo! News - 'Iceman' was murdered, science sleuths say

Don Lanphere

Proper Fats: "There are three main pools of Navarro, the Savoy and Blue Note recordings made as a leader and with Tadd Dameron, and a 1948 live broadcast (some of his best work) from the Royal Roost, material owned by Fantasy. At no time in recent memory have all three of these oeuvres been in print at the same time. Proper not only has put them all in one spot , 'Our Delight,' 'Nostalgia,' 'Fats Blows,' 'Good Bait,' 'Bouncing With Bud,' in short, the lot, it's thrown in the early work with Billy Eckstine and Kenny Clarke, as well as the treasured 1949 recordings with Wenatchee, Wash., bebopper Don Lanphere and the 1950 jam session with Parker at Birdland. Fats lives! "

Nostalgia: A Tribute to the Great Fats Navarro

Embro, Embro - the hidden history of Edinburgh in its music

as usual via beloved Plep...

The Morgan Library Exhibitions | Past | Picturing Natural History

Francis Grose

Robert Burns: TAM O' SHANTER

Greg's Column: "The estimable 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica described Grose as 'a sort of antiquarian Falstaff - at least he possessed in a striking degree the knight's physical peculiarities; but he was a man of true honour and charity, a valuable friend.' After sharing a few bottles of port with Grose, Burns agreed, writing 'I have never seen a man of more original observation, anecdote and remark.' It was for Grose that Burns wrote his famous supernatural poem, 'Tam o'Shanter,' and in a poem about Grose he wrote 'But wad ye see him in his glee, For meikle glee and fun has he, Then set him down, and twa or three Gude fellows wi' him; And port, O port! Shine thou a wee, And THEN ye'll see him!'"

Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary:: "The Devil got notice that Grose was a-dying
So whip! at the summons, old Satan came flying;
But when he approached where poor Francis lay moaning,
And saw each bed-post with its burthen a-groaning,
Astonish'd, confounded, cries Satan-'By God,
I'll want him, ere I take such a damnable load!' "

Grose, Captain Francis (1731 � 91)

309. Verses on Captain Grose. Burns, Robert : "
KEN ye aught o' Captain Grose? Igo, and ago,
If he's amang his friends or foes? Iram, coram, dago.

Is he to Abra'm's bosom gane? Igo, and ago,
Or haudin Sarah by the wame? Iram, coram dago.

Is he south or is he north? Igo, and ago,
Or drowned in the river Forth? Iram, coram dago.

Is he slain by Hielan' bodies? Igo, and ago,
And eaten like a wether haggis? Iram, coram, dago.

Where'er he be, the Lord be near him! Igo, and ago,
As for the deil, he daur na steer him. Iram, coram, dago.

But please transmit th' enclosed letter, Igo, and ago,
Which will oblige your humble debtor. Iram, coram, dago.

So may ye hae auld stanes in store, Igo, and ago,
The very stanes that Adam bore. Iram, coram, dago,

So may ye get in glad possession, Igo, and ago,
The coins o' Satan's coronation! Iram coram dago."

grose's dictionary of the vulgar tongue (1811)

Hayao Miyazaki

Fall is coming

Garibaldi asked by Lincoln to run army

German Stonehenge

The 2003 Perseid Meteor Shower

Schwarzenegger to move California state capital to Vancouver

String, and Knot, Theory of Inca Writing

The Idea In the Brush and the Brush In the Idea

Barbara Everett on Coleridge

elephant at play

it must be Jelly...

Oldest spider silk found

Women with Umbrellas

Futurama is history (my favorite recent line: Bender announces he's going to get some ice cream, and as he leaves Fry yells "The spoon is in the foot powder!")

nice review of new Lester Bangs by Richard Hell

Stop Canadian Change

"The writing forms also appear to be doomed by their link to their most frequent users - aristocrats."

Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black

Which B-Movie Badass Are You? - I was Ash, of course...

Jobs for all!!

Max und Moritz

josh blog: "The small deviations from regularity in house music, like a few extra hi hat hits every eight measures, even when they occur as part of a larger regularity, can sometimes become especially surprising - charged - just because there are always other regularities (ultimately always the kick drum, regardless of what else changes) to fix on. And once I do fix on them, and I become locked in somehow, eventually I hear one of the (regular) deviations - which can be so small - as enormous."

Inner Gowanus

very fine review of Fatal Error by Thomas Munch-Petersen: " Another factor at play is that while society generally claims to value the preservation of life above almost all else this is clearly not true. For the greater good of being able to drive cars as one pleases society is willing to sacrifice a huge percentage of its own. The comparisons to homicide are illuminating. Murder, it is generally agreed, is a very bad thing. There's little debate about that, and punishments are appropriately severe for those who commit this act (whether for deterrent effect or otherwise). But murder is the cause of far, far fewer deaths than motor vehicle 'accidents' (the majority of which are far from true accidents, involving considerable driver contribution -- whether through drink or carelessness or other actions). So clearly it's not life that's valued above all else -- and not even the right to avoid having your life taken by another (since that's usually what happens in motor vehicle 'accidents'). "

Death Valley '74

Jordan: deep sifting the Wall Street Journal and then a good question--: "Text of a Wachovia Securities ad in the WSJ today: 'What can Abstract Art teach us about Raising Capital? It takes a creative approach along with traditional execution to achieve execution.' Then the American Capital logo, 'An Uncommon Partnership Since 1998,' and a series of pasted-up squares with dollar amounts in the tens or hundreds of millions, captioned 'Co-Lead Manager,' 'Sole Manager,' 'Sole Placement Agent,' etc.

What can Contemporary Poetry teach us about Raising Capital? Discuss."

Saskatchewan NDP caves over "Shrub" memo

MISCREAT >> IAN O'BRIEN INTERVIEW: 'Gigantic Days'

A New Form of Life: 'extremophiles'

Micrographia

Questioning the Delphic Oracle

Mr. Tong Bliss' Journal: "Spent this morning simultaneously reading Lee Ann Brown's Polyverse and watching National Lampoon's European Vacation. "

The Scottish Rite: "The fifth scene closes the grand climax. It borrows not its light from the rising or setting sun, nor derives its splendor from the moon. It is a flight, which only the genius of Loutherbourg could reach.

It is a view of the Miltonic Hell, cloathed [sic] in all its terrors. The artist hath given shape and body to the � fiery lake bounded by burning hills. He follows closely the descriptions of the poet. Belzebub and Moloch, rise from the horrid lake, and Pandemonium appears gradually to rise, illuminated with all the grandeur bestowed by Milton, and even with additional properties, for serpents twine around the doric pillars, and the intense red changes to a transparent white, expressing thereby the effect of fire upon metal. Thousands of Demons are then seen to rise, and the whole brightens into a scene of magnificent horror. "

Eidophusikon

Percy Shelley born today--

this from my favorite, Epipsychidion:

"At length, into the obscure Forest came
The Vision I had sought through grief and shame.
Athwart that wintry wilderness of thorns
Flashed from her motion splendour like the Morn's
And from her presence life was radiated
Through the grey earth and breanches bare and dead;
Through the grey earth and branches bare and dead;
So that her way was paved, and roofed above
With flowers as soft as thoughts of budding love;
And music from her respiration spread
Like light, -all other sounds were penetrated
By the small, still, sweet spirit of that sound,
So that the savage winds hung mute around;
And odours warm and fresh fell from her hair
Dissolving the dull cold in the froze air:
Soft as an Incarnation of the Su,
When light is changed to love, this glorious One
Floated into the cavern where I lay,
And called my Spirit, and the dreaming clay
Was lifted by the thing that dreamed below
As smoke by fire, and in her beauty's glow
I stood, and felt the dawn of my long night
Was penetrating me with living light:
I knew it was the Vision veiled from me
So many years-that it was Emily."

Self Portrait Sessions: "We moved to New York. Lookin' back, it really was a stupid thing to do. But there was a house available on MacDougal Street, and I always remembered that as a nice place. So I just bought this house, sight unseen. But it wasn't the same when we got back. The Woodstock Nation had overtaken MacDougal Street also. There'd be crowds outside my house. And I said, 'Well, fuck it. I wish these people would just forget about me. I wanna do something they can't possibly like, they can't relate to. They'll see it, and they'll listen, and they'll say, 'Well, let's get on to the next person. He ain't sayin' it no more. He ain't given' us what we want', you know? They'll go on to somebody else. But the whole idea backfired. Because the album went out there, and the people said, 'This ain't what we want,' and they got more resentful. And then I did this portrait for the cover. I mean, there was no title for that album. I knew somebody who had some paints and a square canvas, and I did the cover up in about five minutes. And I said, 'Well, I'm gonna call this album Self Portrait.' "

Shamefaced with Triumph, Ted Koppel of Arabia

Scottish Words Illustrated

NGA: Edward Ruscha - Lisp

The Mount Horeb Mustard Museum Online

Preston Sturges

The Palm Beach Story (1942): Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Preston Sturges: starts in 10 minutes

High hopes for the High Line

Glorious Noise - Sam Phillips Dead: "Phillips: 'Jerry. Jerry. If you think that you can't, can't do good if you're a rock and roll exponent—'

Lewis: 'You can do good, Mr. Phillips, don't get me wrong—'

Phillips: 'Now wait, wait, listen. When I say do good—'

Lewis: 'You can have a kind heart!'

Phillips: 'I don't just mean, I don't mean just—'

Lewis: 'You can help people!'

Phillips: 'You can save souls!'

Lewis: 'No! No! No! No!'

Phillips: 'Yes!'

Lewis: 'How can the Devil save souls? What are you talking about?' "

Desperately seeking Kraftwerk

Lunar Eclipse Gallery: May 15 and 16, 2003

The Fantastic Typing CyberMonkey