Tres reasons why I need to bring a Holga on my Puerto Rican TG jaunt. (Courtesy of my artist-writer-friend, Annie D.)
Clean Slate for the Pessimist is a genius ’exercise in default accountability’ in a ’bastion of enduring Robert Moses Municipal Rape’. Brought to you by one of my favorite artists (and platonic lover) J.J.W. III.
Is it just me, or did the Bloomsberry auctioneer post this upside down?
Jorge Luis BORGES (Argentinian, 1899 - 1986) Self-portrait. ink on paper
8 3/4 x 6 inches (225 x 150 mm)
Dear Liberty,
We will miss you. You were a good moto, even if you lost your kickstand on the autopista and nearly killed us. We don’t blame you.
Besos,
C + L
This little vid. is a purdy way to soak up some virtual vitamin D and keep from getting too SAD.
(It’s part of an eposodic documentary titled EVERYONE FOREVER NOW - an exploration of “the collective wisdom inherent in everyday human behavior.” The one on stoop sitting is also neat…)
Told you so! Daydreaming makes you smart! Tra la la, hum humm di do…
In Frontal Cortex, Jonah Lehrer, (my fave science writer) discusses the importance of daydreaming and new evidence of the link between daydreaming and intelligence:
“…in the latest edition of Mind Matters, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli and John Gabrieli of MIT outline some interesting new research on the link between resting state activity - the performance of the brain when it’s lying still in a brain scanner, doing nothing but daydreaming - and general intelligence. It turns out that cultivating an active idle mind, or teaching yourself how to daydream effectively, might actually encourage the sort of long-range neural connections that make us smart.”
Here’s another good article by Lehrer that discusses why we need to take daydreams more seriously.
(photo by Carol Texas Ranger)
Puerto Vallarta to New York City via Tennessee…
Watched A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE for the first time (finally) on my flight back from Mexico yesterday. Marlin Brando, that brute, was hotter than the tropics for sure - fell for him at 40,000 feet (Voy a soñar contigo…). As for Mlle. Blanche DuBois? Well, I hear Cate Blanchett is giving Vivien Leigh a ‘proper’ run for her money in the BAM production which opened yesterday. Wish so bad I had tickets… perhaps a ‘kind stranger’ will come through?
the maids have not been here for months maybe days
when they arrive late so late I will fire them every one I am preparing my speech it will be abrasive Thomas brings the bottles drink deep from milk bottles high on this low bed crying in three-space gaps I have been giving small orders I want to stop”
