December 2007
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HOW TO KILL A CAMERA timer, toss, repeat
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HANG SLANG
2007:“hey, you wanna go out & see a show or something tonite?” “nah, i just wanna hang out at home.” 2008:“hey, you wanna go out & see a show or something tonite?” “nah, i’m just gonna hang in.”
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FUTURES WE COULD NOT FORESEE
i’m thinking about this, but not like you’d think… i’m driving down a seven-lane highway in the eastbay in an oversize van & traffic is thick & only moving like the exit lanes of a parking lot. it’s a drizzly saturday afternoon & we’re going to ikea from hayes valley. there is no freedom on the freeway anymore. none. i’m listening to vinyl...
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NONEVENTS & OTHER UNHAPPENINGS
wandering back to the office from lunch today, i was stopped by an officer on first street. ‘get back,’ he said. ‘we have a suspicious package.’ he pointed it out. across the street, a long tube of sealed cardboard stuffed into a tree planter. it was then that i noticed swarms of police & firemen & the strange stillness of a noon hour w/out traffic. surreal. anyway....
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the problem is that we are, and are about not to be.
– ROMAN OPALKA this man is deeply interesting. & it’s so rad to find this on noah’s site because of the now-obvious similarities in projects of the two artists that i hadn’t realized before… from wikipedia: In 1968 Opalka introduced a tape recorder, speaking each number...
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DEPRESSED IN 2007? WISH FOR THINGS YOU'RE...
HEAVENLY • An eclipse (solar: Feb. 7, Aug. 1; lunar: Feb. 21, Aug. 16) • A meteor shower (Quadrantid, Perseid, Geminids) & comets • Sunrises & sunsets, or else the Rapture (hope i get the doll house!) WORLDLY • French fries & toilet water (UN declared 2008 year of the potato & also year of sanitation!) • A complete American quarter collection (the Hawai’i coin is minted...
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want porkchop? i can make porkchop. taco? i can make taco.
– OVERHEARD: South San Francisco BART.
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you wanna get dissected? i. will. dissect. you. sucka.
– OVERHEARD: 16th & Mission.
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In a Funk, Italy Sings an Aria of Disappointment →
“Italy… the Florida of Europe” question mark (no way no way never) via The New York Times
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