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Solitary House in Iceland
Daylight savings just ended. There is the general craziness of the time change (I am particularly taken by the way it affects animals and the ... go to full post →
Kace’s Bardo Letter #2: Edgar Allan Poe
Hey Ed ∙∙∙
Ages, right? How’s Baltimore? This monstrous gap of time… the blame falls on me. Haven’t seen you since my wedding. Bells Bells ... go to full post →
Marching with Twyla
Apparently, Twyla Tharp is known to keep healthy and on point with a vigorous morning workout. I’m fascinated that this routine includes marching around to ... go to full post →
Metro North Train Schedule Icons
Before they’re gone for good, I want to say a word about these two little icons. In terms of web design, they’re so outdated, yet ... go to full post →
NO NO NO NO!
The war against Ukraine is escalating. Many are fleeing, suffering, dying.
I received the following from Duane Michals.
Spreading the word…
... go to full post →
Christopher Nolan: Up Close and Distant
With all the anticipation surrounding Tenet, here’s a reversed way of looking at Christopher Nolan:
There is something ... go to full post →
Tobi, Protector of Mind
Tobias: God is good.
Tobi protects Xavi.
Hacker, coder, gamer, possessor of eternal memory.
Anonymous Presence.
Instant Access.
All that is lodged in the annals ... go to full post →
DFW and the Theory of Strings
One thing I’d like to see: David Foster Wallce hooking up with a quantum-powered theoretical physicist. Let’s talk about strings—tennis, yarn, wave theory, particle theory—bring ... go to full post →
Kafka-Kandinsky
A Kafka Metamorphosis—
One morning, when I woke from troubled dreams, I found myself transformed in my bed into a Kandinsky painting. I lay on ... go to full post →
Xerxes: Great Things and Great Dangers
It seems that among classicists there is some debate whether Xerxes actually said this, but some agree that the words suit him well. Like many, ... go to full post →
Kalachakra: 2011
In a talk from 2011, Robert Thurman introduces His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his thirtieth reading of ... go to full post →
The Union Case Photographs of Bill Travis
Artist Bill Travis has been creating a remarkable series of photographs entitled “Poems of the Body”: Enchantingly illuminated male subjects framed in 19th-century union cases.
... go to full post →Joan Didion: Writing is the ability to change reality
Joan, I turn to you for straight talk. You say writing is the ability to change reality, change the beginning, change the end, to upend ... go to full post →
The Cyrillic Letter Ж
I have a friend named Kace who adores the Cyrillic letter ж.
Kace writes many letters to me, and early on in our correspondence, he ... go to full post →
My Cousin Joseph K. Faces Off with AI
According to his Memorial Record, my cousin, Joesph K. (I wonder if he knew Kafka) died on June 4, 1912, at the age of 37 ... go to full post →
Brotherly Love
I keep staring.
It captivates.
Title is Brothers.
This tremendous love, but then I’m not so sure: I start to sense a deep rivalry.
Perhaps ... go to full post →
Celebrating Rio
November 14th for me will always be “Rio Day”—the birthday of my good friend who lives there and who is huge fan of science fiction ... go to full post →
WRX Anime
The WRX is mythic.
If you don’t own one, you just can’t relate. There’s something otherworldly and awesome about this car (and I am super ... go to full post →
A Little Life and Complete Abandon
In a Guardian interview some years ago, Hanya Yanagihara has this to say about Jude in A Little Life:
For me, the keyword there is ... go to full post →
Bruce Chatwin Dissolves
Bruce Chatwin: Traveling, unfixed, nomadic, dissolving.
Identity that spreads far and wide but nearly imperceptibly… underground. The way Deleuze and Guattari speak of identity as ... go to full post →
Isolator — Hugo Gernsback Invention
Seems like a made-for-quarantine item, at least for those who are forced to chill at home for days with all sorts of distractions. It’s somewhat ... go to full post →