May 2008
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The Tangled History of Typewriters & Guns →
“Making writing rapid-fire, Remington turned a rather staid and quiet activity—writing—into one dominated by force and noise and physical effort” (serious. this is the raddest article i’ve read in awhile: typewriters & guns peppered w/nietzsche, h.james, m.twain & dylan references) via Cabinet (Fall 2002 issue, Pharmacopia)
April 2008
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“no, i like the fettuccine. i just don’t like the alfredo.”
– OVERHEARD: Front & Market.
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FEVER MATH No. 3
Car in golden dings is the same letter progression as Caring old endings.
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THE STATE OR CONDITION IN WHICH HUMAN BEINGS EXIST...
tonite at the grocery store, i watched a fat man take a candy bar w/out paying & then get tackled into a display of flowers by two massive security guards. & i felt sorry for him… & i felt sorry for the overexcited security. & i felt sorry for the sad crowd of gawkers (including me!) that gathered around as these three clowns rolled around in a mound of broken flowerpots...
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“he wants me to make a killin’.”
– OVERHEARD: 1st & Mission.
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Brazil: Rescuers Fail to Find Priest Carried Aloft... →
“Rescuers have reached a cluster of brightly colored party balloons floating in the ocean off Brazil’s coast, but did not find the Roman Catholic priest who had been using them” (i am at a loss for words to type here) via The New York Times ps. ever heard this one?
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QUE CERA SERA
this morning i realized michael cera is our generation’s bob newhart. & dudes! i have accepted this epiphany as fact.
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WatchOLD SONGS my favorite space to place anxieties is w/in a chord sequence. it’s an ok habit, i think. this is an old song, old worries, new recording… i had completely forgotten about it until i realized a new one had a similar structure. (via vimeo)
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STUDY: Secondhand Smoke Linked To Secondhand... →
“… secondhand smoke established him as a hip, freethinking individual, the kind of person who might one day run with the bulls in Pamplona” (humor is an art & this publication is the louvre) via The Onion
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i stumbled out the door of my office & straight into caroline rhea after work this afternoon. she was arguing w/a man. it was funny. that’s all.
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PILE OF PHOTOGRAPHS
i apologize for the weight of photo after photo here lately. i have so many from recent travels that i must toss them upward as uploads to ever get through to anything else again. soon, though, more stuffs like: overheard songs words fever maths loops & anecdotes [ thank you so much to utata & keri smith for featuring this site today! ]
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“she said no sex. ahh i’d rather drink beer anyway. lasts longer.”
– OVERHEARD: Larkin & Golden Gate Avenue.
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WAVES
my father is a pilot. he took me flying before i could walk properly &, as a child, i had many plastic airplanes i flew daily on imagination. my family traveled often & i always loved the flights deeply. then one nite in the mid-1990s, midflight, while taking the red eye from honolulu to minneapolis, it occured to me that the magic of flying was simply air pressure. a minor panic attack on...
