out & about

shelves of Smithson, Perec etc. reproduced at Personal Libraries Library

The Personal Libraries Library is a specially-curated lending library located in Portland, Oregon. The Library is dedicated to recreating the personal libraries of artists, philosophers, scientists, writers and other thinkers & makers.

mark dahl (contemporary cultural producer)

William Burroughs on…Led Zeppelin

I pointed out that the moment when the stairway to heaven becomes something actually POSSIBLE for the audience, would also be the moment of greatest danger...

GREAT countryish Mixtapes

Shasta Daylight

"the Southern Pacific streamliner Shasta Daylight, passing 14,161 foot Mt Shasta on the scenic 718-mile Shasta Route between Portland, Oregon and San Francisco, California."

RIP Claude Chabrol my favorite director of the "new wave"...

out & about

I wish I could sing
like Ronnie Drew
instead of sounding
just like you.

With a nickel
& a nail
the Thursday freight
he could derail--

foghorn from Goldfinch
to Joanna
from Elisabeth St.
to Valhalla

something a circling bird
discerns
in meaty terms,

what was said & not said,
a hammering on
an empty head.

Empress Citation Shasta
disturbeth not
the quails at their suppers;

though the lookout
shoots through
the sweet-pea undercoil

then squawks left six feet
for everyone else
it's just another brindle head

patrolling loose & low
for the grasses & chicory
of the trackside pharmacopia.

interesting documentary about polymath/filmmaker Humphrey Jennings--YouTube - The Man Who Listened to Britain 1

Listen to Britain (1942) (ignore the long introduction)

After 40 Years, Dock Ellis Inspires Acid Test

If it seems almost routine to throw a no-hitter now, then consider one that was not.

Forty years ago, Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates raised the degree of difficulty to new, well, heights. He threw a no-hitter with Richard M. Nixon calling balls and strikes and Jimi Hendrix, wielding a Fender Stratocaster instead of a Louisville Slugger, digging in at home plate.

Or at least that is what he thought while pitching under the influence of LSD...

Top 10 Lost Technologies

Bring Back The PNE Demolition Derby Petition

"the wealth of nations"

Las Vegas Carpets

World's first 'tree cathedral' takes root in Italy

hubbub.org

Concrete Visual Poetry by Cecil Touchon

by means of a structural use of typography