November 2010
5 posts
“This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the...”
– (Deleuze and Guattari, “A Thousand Plateaus”, 161; in May, 151)
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
2 posts
WatchThis 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…)
January 2010
2 posts
November 2009
2 posts
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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...
September 2009
14 posts
everybody pickles →
The city of A Coruña and the Autonomous Community...
Sept. 22-26. Check it.
perfumers aprentice →
August 2009
14 posts
At least some people have manners...Thank you Ms....
“Munro Leaves Giller to Others Recent Man Booker International Prize winner and two-time Giller winner Alice Munro, 78, has withdrawn her just-released story collection TOO MUCH HAPPINESS from consideration for the 2009 Giller prize. Publisher Douglas Gibson says: “Her reason is that she has won twice and would like to leave the field to younger writers. In my role as greedy...
The Forgotten Dialect Of The Heart by Jack Gilbert
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according to which nation. French has no word for home, and we have no word for strict pleasure. A people in northern India is dying out because their ancient tongue has no words for endearment....
Clarice Lispector, Eu te amo →
As a bona fide Lispectorphile, I obviously can’t wait to read the new Lispector biography by Benjamin Moser—and this New York Times review makes me all the more antsy. Luckily The Faster Times procured me a review copy, and I’ll be devouring it and offering up my opinion soon.
Meanwhile, to curb my appetite, I think I’ll munch on The Apple in the Dark.
courtneyc:
Dirty Projectors - Two Doves.
The Most Expensive Jasmine Controversy
The Independant wrote this:
“This year, some perfume enthusiasts had feared that new regulations from the International Fragrance Association (IFRA), which come into effect next January, would spell the end of Chanel No. 5. The use of natural jasmine will, for the first time, be restricted in all perfumes to 0.7 per cent of the finished product, to ensure that wearers have no allergic...
June 2009
3 posts
Power Embodied: A POETICS FOR BULLIES by Stanley...
You must read it. (And when you are done, pause, regroup, and read this interview.)
A Poetics For Bullies by Stanley Elkin
I’m Push the bully, and what I hate are new kids and sissies, dumb kids and smart, rich kids, poor kids, kids who wear glasses, talk funny, show off, patrol boys and wise guys and kids who pass pencils and water the plants- and cripples, especially cripples. I love...
May 2009
1 post
April 2009
13 posts
Billy Joel -Doo Wop →
I have dreamed of, itched for, lusted on, suspired in, and just craved this FOR THE LONGEST TIME ;)
