I liked this "Raven Wonders of Bird Life Limited Edition Book Print"

The Polari Bible

1 In the beginning Gloria created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was nanti form, and void; and munge was upon the eke of the deep. And the fairy of Gloria trolled upon the eke of the aquas.
3 And Gloria cackled, Let there be sparkle: and there was sparkle.
4 And Gloria vardad the sparkle, that it was bona: and Gloria medzered the sparkle from the munge...

re-visit Aestheticism and Loyalty: Basil Bunting's Response to World War II

I criticize a machine by nearly the same criteria as I do a work of art. A Lee-Enfield rifle, a Hotchkiss machine gun, have nothing superfluous nor fussy about them. They are utterly simple - having reached that simplicity via complication and sophistication galore. The kind of people who, if they had literary minds at all, would like euphemism or trickiness, prefer Lewis guns or Remington or Ross rifles. My machine-gun is a Hotchkiss and I feel toward it something similar in kind to what I feel for Egyptian sculpture . I think Holbein or Bach or Praxiteles, as well as Alexander, would have appreciated a Hotchkiss gun...

Fleetwood Ghost, 2009 from Photographs, 2005

"Online presence of Canadian photographer Christopher Brayshaw"

Law & Order gets cancelled just before breaking Gunsmoke's on-air record...

Rim Pine, Bryce Canyon National Park,
2010
at Anodyne

Solitude, Exile and Ecstasy--interesting transcript of a "radio music-drama" (from original sources) devised by Bruce Charlton, about solitude, Thoreau, Hugh MacDiarmid & Glenn Gould...

'I have a commonplace book for facts
And another for poetry,
But I find it difficult always
To preserve the vague distinctions I had in mind
- for the most interesting and beautiful facts
Are so much the more poetry,
And that is their success.
- I see that if my facts
Were sufficiently vital and significant,
Perhaps transmuted more
Into the substance of the human mind,
I should need but one book of poetry
To contain them all!’

Nathaniel Mackey at Isola di Rifiuti

“To poetize or sing is to talk like a bird, a way with words and sound
given rise to by a break in social relations, a denial of kinship and
social sustenance, as if the break were a whistling fissure, an opening
blown on like a flute.”

How Conny Black and Izzy Asper Plotted to Control Canadian News Biz

"This isn't the end of a deal, it is only the beginning of the real
deal," Asper enthused in a fax to Black days after his CanWest Global
Communications bought Southam. "The possibilities are truly awesome and
infinite..."

fine essay on HUGH MACDIARMID, SCOTLAND’S REVOLUTIONARY POET

We must be humble. We are so easily baffled by appearances
And do not realize that these stones are one with the stars.
It makes no difference to them whether they are high or low,
Mountain peak or ocean floor, palace, or pigsty.
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined
stones.
No visitor comes from the stars
But is the same as they are...