January 2010
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Punitive ghosts like steam-driven tennis courts haunt the apples in my nonexistent orchard.
Richard Brautigan
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Our language, Tiger, our language, hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of possible legitimate new ideas, so that I can say this sentence and be confident it has never been uttered before in the history of human communication: “Hold the newsreader’s nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.” One sentence, common words, but never before placed in that...
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قَدْ تَخيّلتكَ لحْناً →
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The captain vs.
The captain versus a pinhole in the sky. The captain versus a ship in a bottle and its unlikely creaking. The captain versus his hometown’s silhouette. The captain versus the sword at his side, his lover’s slow eyes. The captain versus a whale: something at least laterally familiar. The captain versus a cloud of breath. The captain versus flatlands and a far interior. The captain versus a...
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RADIOLAB: ANIMAL MINDS
When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved pets, can we ever really know what they’re thinking? Is it naive to assume they might be experiencing something close to the emotions we feel? Or, on the contrary, is it ridiculous to assume that they AREN’T feeling anything back?
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sigh. i wish i could speak whale..
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Ryuichi Sakamoto, “Solitude” (from Tony Takitani...
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لمّا بَدا يَتَثَنّى →
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Remaindered Ideas:
#1 A sitcom about a ghost and a zombie… of the same guy. In the pilot episode, Joe’s roommate Ted has a terrible accident and dies. He’s buried in the old cemetery by the town’s nuclear plant. A few days later Ted’s ghost comes home, much to Joe’s surprise. Later that day, Ted’s zombie corpse shows up too! Has there ever been a story about a ghost and zombie of the same...
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Pantone, Ms. Eco? Silver Slate Davy’s Feldgrau Charcoal Black, A moonly terminator; liminal.
- Richard Gassan
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a hybrid novel by Alberto Hernández
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Lined & Unlined: Serial Series
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Serial Series is a six-part meditation on the production of text from the text’s point-of-view. It was written serially and published serially during the three-week run of Dexter Sinister’s The First/Last Newspaper, a project for Performa 09.
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Ettela’at Sahl (1971)
Westvaco Promotion Guide #1 (1956-1961)
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Westvaco manual #II: Inspirations for Printers (1953-1955)
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When in (Renaissance) Rome... →
After blowing your nose: You should not open your handkerchief and look inside, as if pearls or rubies might have descended from your brain. —Giovanni Della Casa, Galateo (1558)
How to approach, for the first time, a woman you love: His first words shall test her mind and probe her wish in a manner so ambiguous as to leave her a way of certain escape by making it possible for her to pretend...
Heroic Moments in Poetry: Ellipsis
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Fantastic Four 50, May 1966. Poetry … reminds you that Joe Simon and Jack Kirby invented the romance comic.
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Heroic Moments in Poetry: Onomatopoeia
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Fantastic Four 24, March 1964. Poetry is a giant angry baby with a terminal skin condition that looks when it says it sounds and sounds when it says it looks.
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