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The Memory Hole has a cool page up
Inside The CIA Museum
Some amazing stuff there, the place resembles The Museum of Natural History as much as it does Q's workshop.
mr wilson and his wunderkammer.
A scholarly Celtic blog from the Digital Medievalist. She also explains why the Mac is the Celtic computer (OK, maybe that one’s obvious....)
Cory Doctorow's "impressionistic transcript" of the Zack Exley / Eli Pariser MoveOn keynote from the SXSW conference.
amy's mother's messages
Lagrimas y sangre--tears and blood.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3500774.stm
Here's a long post, so long---I promise, I won't impose this way again. My apologies, and my thanks for this forum, in advance. .
No longer to see that ruined face, as I have seen it, off and on through a loop that has now stopped: At the back of "the house" at a professor's play done at wooster st.; at an early desk reading--I remember resenting the implacable image of "man at the desk talking about himself." Coming and going, walking, down through the years of New York---outside the "bad museum," on the bowery with shafransky in '87, to the monstrous box, which I didn't really find funny, only brackish, like my own family's peculiar humor, and sad.
In early December, I passed Gray and some of his friends walking down 1st Avenue, seemingly in fine fettle. I looked at him, and he returned the look, as he always did: I think it was a theatrical impulse, since although I had seen him around often throughout the years, I never knew him. In the past, I had seen him gaze back with either intense and impersonal amazement, or with a glance of acknowledged common humanity. In December, I observed the look of doubt, and I thought, "oh, but he's better now. . ."
If I continued to search, I'm sure I could come up with better poems to use instead of my own clumsy voice. I'm posting one by W.S. Merwin (before he got "soft"), and one by Wallace Stevens, both fellow New Englanders.
Beggars and Kings -- W. S. Merwin
In the evening
all the hours that weren't used
are emptied out
and the beggars are waiting to gather them up
to open them
to find the sun in each one
and teach it its beggar's name
and sing to it It is well
through the night
but each of us
has his own kingdom of pains
and has not yet found them all
and is sailing in search of them day and night
infallible undisputed unresting
filled with a dumb use
and its time
like a finger in a world without hands
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock -- Wallace Stevens
The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches Tigers
In red weather.
animal instincts
adult swim
(sprung) i noticed in the park earthworm mounds. on the radio (npr) they mentioned that its time for the earthworms to start moving around and that the robins would soon respond (looking for food). any crocus sightings yet ?
'the [New York Times] paper's policy on "Ethical Journalism" states: "Staff members may not accept gifts, tickets, discounts, reimbursements or other inducements from any individuals or organizations covered by The Times or likely to be covered by The Times. (Exceptions may be made for trinkets of nominal value, say, $25 or less, such as a mug or a cap with a company logo.) Gifts should be returned with a polite explanation."
Most reporters at the Times make between $60,000 and $80,000.'
I am still feeling out this blog medium, and I think I ran into a personal boundary recently. I created an art criticism monster thread and the experience is nagging at me. At first I loved it that so many people got involved, but in the end it was unweildy and for some reason, that I can't pin down yet, disatisfying. Partly, the heavy, abstracted subject matter just got to be too much. Maybe I should have moderated more? Or maybe its a technical thing. I changed it from flat comments to threaded comments part way through, thinking it would help to lend clarity, but I think it actually broke up any coherent trains of thought that had been developing and made the whole exercise feel more futile. I'm trying to figure out just what I am getting/want to be getting out of this project, and having tons and tons of people post to a thread no longer seems like a big goal. Any thoughts or past experiences from Tree-ers would be much appreciated.
Have you people heard about Howard Stern being taken off the air in six different cities? The reason seems to be because he was talking about how much Bush sucks.
dont have a cow, man.
DLC approved: Kerry's hair.
i think this is an ad
am i the only one still watching debates?
Before I suffered brain damage and stopped reading anything that didn't have the word 'manual' in the title, I would have loved this: Grey Lodge Occult Review. Issue number 10 just went online, with pieces by Korzybski, Artaud, Burroughs, Dick, Baudrillard, Huxley, Battaille, etc....
The NY Post’s Sean Delonas has produced some powerful political cartoons, mostly on the basis of sheer grotesquery rather than wit, like his famous image of Cuomo and Giuliani literally “in bed” together. But I thought this one was actually a good pun.
Nice. Preview is the top link right now on memepool.
Can you see your hits over there Joester? Does that drive much traffic?
bird sighting
Wish I could post a picture, but I was going 65 mph at the time. I saw a pair of hawks (?) perched on a light pole in the middle of the US 101/ I-880 interchange. Very cool. Nice to know that some predators can coexist with us.
the slot: a spot for copy editors