Remnick on Liebling

"In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiners Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh-picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island duck, he might have written a masterpiece."

new oed entries are occasionably
Occitanic

under the fire star has Akuri, a lovely sounding egg dish

gmtPlus9 has a rockin' Moon Mullican Mp3 this week

Happiest of birthdays honey.

a very nice little Coleridge dictionary

"glory-- a ring or spot of light (a natural phenomenon during misty weather in the mountains of the English Lake Country)"

Douglas Wolk on the Fleetwood Mac re-issues.

Haven't seen it yet, but any movie that gets its title from"Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope can't be all bad--

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;
'Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep;'
Desires compos'd, affections ever ev'n,
Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav'n.
Grace shines around her with serenest beams,
And whisp'ring angels prompt her golden dreams.
For her th' unfading rose of Eden blooms,
And wings of seraphs shed divine perfumes,
For her the Spouse prepares the bridal ring,
For her white virgins hymeneals sing,
To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away,
And melts in visions of eternal day. "

but it may have to wait until after I've seen Hellboy...

pdf's of earlier issues of ecopoetics can be found here.

Out inspecting the storm damage. Yesterday started out clear with a howling gale which brought in the big rain. When the power came back on I went out for the mail, the sky blue overhead, thin yellow cloud southeast through which the sun shone, big gun-metal grey stormcloud over downtown. The effect of the wind on the mild spring shower droplets through the blue sky and the bright low sun was to bathe everything in a super sharp platinum light, with distortion where the stormcloud met the horizon. Sometimes under similar conditions one sees crisp vignettes of normally smudged distant hills, those days when you can see Mount Baker but not Mount Benson.

Ecopoetics arrived from Buffalo, stuffed to the gunnels.

Found (as authentic storm jetsam) a flyer (with a picture of a wrecked bungalow) for a company (with 24/7 & within a half-hour service) specializing in:

. Nuisance Home Clean Ups
. Fire & Flood damage
. Grow-Op Rebuilds
. Impact & Vandalism
. Pet Odours
. General Contracting
. Furnace & Duct Cleaning
. Death Scene Clean Ups
. Carpet Repairs/Installs
. Mold & Mildew Abatement

thanks Glosses for LEOPOLIS, beautiful photos from L'viv in the Ukraine

the great John Hurt profiled in Salon. I bummed a Camel from him once.

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"It takes a peculiar skill to drive an old car fast over bad roads: & this is the kind of writer i've become."

Hannah Weiner--Clarivoyant Journal

many photographic collections at the George Eastman House

Julia Margaret Cameron's Idylls of the King photographs

Johnson's Chair

Cowper's Summer House

Rumsfeld Hosts No-Holds-Barred Martial Arts Tournament At Remote Island Fortress

"Rumsfeld, wandering among his collection of antique torture implements and feeding candied figs to his golden langur, said he remains unmoved.

'See here,' Rumsfeld said, indicating a gold-encrusted Minoan iron maiden. 'It is difficult to associate horrors with the proud civilizations that created them: Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the Samurai. They worshipped strength, because strength is the fundament for all other values. I shall find the strongest of all, and together, we shall shake the world to its very foundations.'"

Dani Siciliano - Likes you may know her from her vocals on Matthew Herbert's records