out & about (Shasta is wearing a T-shirt to protect her stitches as she's healing from a recent stick-related injury--she's almost all better now)

 

awesome Big Map Blog

Martin Usborne--photos of dogs left alone in cars

one of America's finest filmmakers in a rare NYC appearance--Vanessa Renwick: The Oregon Department of Kick Ass – Documentary Film, Radio, Photography | Presentation + Production | Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Older Guys USTV (full version)

Flying Burrito Brothers - Christine's Tune

Jackie DeShannon - A Lifetime of Loneliness 1965

Jackie DeShannon - The weight

Jackie DeShannon - You've Got Your Troubles (Video)

UNDERTHESUN - Roy Arden

In Praise of the Typewriter - Photo Gallery - LIFE

The Passing Show: The Life and Music of Ronnie Lane part 1/6

60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos

Sketches of Nanaimo, 1893

Luc Sante reviews Geoff Dyer the quick-change artist

...Which is to say that instead of being agglutinations of data, his works are characterized by the fact that they are writing—that their insights and their expression are inseparable and maybe indistinguishable. They are the opposite of Wikipedia: By design, they tell you as much about the author as about the ostensible subject. It's like with music—you want the voice before you want the song, don't you? Or do you just indifferently punch up any old cover of "Moon River" and that's good enough? Likewise, with a writer such as Dyer (and there aren't too many in his league), what you dig is interpretation, in its several senses: exegesis, and profound internalization of a subject, and a thorough imaginative remaking of that subject...'

Listening to Taxi Driver

"Morris Minor in a Field" from Unmitigated England

Who Would Dare? by Roberto Bolaño

I remember the edition: it was a book with very large print, like a primary school reader, slim, cloth-covered, with a horrendous drawing on the jacket, a hard book to steal and one that I didn’t know whether to hide under my arm or in my belt, because it showed under my truant student blazer, and in the end I carried it out in plain sight of all the clerks at the Glass Bookstore, which is one of the best ways to steal and which I had learned from an Edgar Allan Poe story...

The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s “The Wire”

If at any time besides its treatment of Templeton The Wire flirts
with caricature, it does so in the character of Omar Little.  Yet no
one would ever reduce such a monumental culmination of literary
tradition, satire, and basic human desire for mythos as Omar
Little by defining him as mere caricature.  Little is not Dickensian. 
Nor is he a character in the style of Thackeray, Eliot, Trollope, or any
of the most famous serialists.  If he must be compared to characters in
the Victorian times, he most closely resembles a creation of a Brontë;
he could have come from Wuthering Heights...

Elizabeth Taylor

Shasta at Beck Lake

out & about South Delta

Trabant Burnout

from Vintage Seattle -- A High-Res Blog Visualizing Seattle's Past

Looking for Truth with a Pin (Ivor Cutler Documentary) [1/6]

Don Gill - Walking

"Trash" 2011 from Anodyne

Roxie Laybourne, Feather Detective

THE MOVIE ART OF FRANK McCARTHY

TCM's Classic Movie Blog

from RM--LRB · Benjamin Kunkel on David Harvey · How Much Is Too Much?

The incorporation into the capitalist domain of non-capitalist territories and populations, the privatisation of public or commonly owned assets, including land, and so on, down to the commodification of indigenous art-forms and the patenting of seeds, offer instances of the accumulation by dispossession that has accompanied capitalism since its inception. This field for gain would be exhausted only with universal commodification, when ‘every person in every nook and cranny of the world is caught within the orbit of capital.’

Life With Dada

"Life With Dada" made by Gregg Simpson in 1965, starring Gerry Gilbert & Roger Tentrey

Inky crash

A tractor-trailer hauling industrial printer cartridges rolled over this morning on the ramp from Route 128 North to Interstate 95 North in Peabody, spewing ink across the roadway. The ramp could be closed for up to eight hours while the mess is cleaned up, State Police said...

EDGELANDS by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts reviewed by Sean O’Brien

Edgelands in England are for the most part the zone of the in-between, places
neither urban nor rural, often marked by desire paths, dead cars and
hawthorn trees. They are likely to have an industrial history but they may
also simply be places where suburbs have run out of steam and money. They
escape inclusion in plans, or have been included but have managed to sustain
a sense of difference despite the planners’ intentions. At some point, the
powers that be will come for them and convert them for retail development or
a business park, but on that day the edgelands will move further down the
road and out of sight and somehow persist to undermine and complicate the
new developments. In spirit, edgelands are untidy, improvised, accidental,
secret and quite likely a risk to health. For many people of a certain age
and background they are more real than the countryside to which the
city-dweller’s aspirations have long been directed. For one thing, edgelands
are accessible; for another, it can seem, at least for a time, as if no one
owns them...

  out & about

Curtis Mayfield: After the Rain

While many focus on President Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey as proof of racial equality, in reality, it has only created the illusion that racism no longer exists. In actuality, what little progress has been made has only forced the face of racism to strengthen itself through institutionalized and systematic conditioning that has influenced the perception of most Americans. Consequently, discrimination has become so much a part of the American fabric that we have lost our ability to even distinguish the difference. Sadly but not surprisingly, racism has further embedded itself into our social foundation and structure...

Curtis Mayfield We are the People Darker Than Blue

The Impressions - Choice Of Colors

Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up

Sexy Trees of the Marigny Calendar

please sign the Southlands - Back in the ALR Petition


Southlands is comprised of over 500 acres of land that was successfully
farmed until it was purchased by developers in 1982. Since then, this
land has been under regular threat of development, with the latest plan
envisioning as many as 1,900 homes being built.


Due to these constant pressures the best solution is to place the land back in the Agricultural Land Reserve.

David Foster Wallace: “Backbone”

Every whole person has ambitions, objectives, initiatives, goals. This one particular boy’s goal was to be able to press his lips to every square inch of his own body...

Baseball's famous Duke dies at 84 - Montreal - CBC News