July 12, 2008


Gravity

I imagined standing in the laundry basket, hands on either side, lifting myself into the air.

posted by Deron Bauman in memory, science 

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16 Responses to “Gravity”

  1. Daryl Scroggins on July 12th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    That just seems like it ought to work, doesn’t it?

  2. Deron Bauman on July 12th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    shit. I could do a billion pull-ups but couldn’t lift myself off the goddamn ground once!

  3. Sheila Ryan on July 12th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

    I tried to do something similar in the garbage dumpster the other night, but it didn’t work either.

  4. Michael Grant Smith on July 12th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    Stupid laundry basket also does not excel as a boat, at least in my experience.

  5. Sheila Ryan on July 12th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    This is good to know, as I was thinking to suggest to Alek that she set sail for America in a laundry basket.

  6. Michael Grant Smith on July 12th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

    Tell her Deron will pick her up in Baltimore.

  7. Sheila Ryan on July 12th, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    I love the idea of Alek bobbing into the Baltimore harbor in a laundry basket as Deron waits on the quay. Maybe Amy would loan him the Porsche so Alek could be conveyed to Texas in style.

  8. jandek on July 12th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    I sit alone in my room. It is quiet outside for a Saturday. The record player’s been going non-stop and I am smoking as I sit alone a lot and think about her.

  9. Sheila Ryan on July 12th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    That’s not unheard of, especially in the still of the night. (Is this a Saturday night?)

  10. Andrew Simone on July 13th, 2008 at 12:45 am

    The Ghost of Saturday Night

  11. Alek Lindus on July 13th, 2008 at 1:13 am

    log book – 03 02 starship laundry basket / pages swelling in salt, ink clogging, mechanics of writing comic sans. Charting a course for Baltimore – somewhere north west of cape Verde somewhere round about here where we grope, slightly lower down or slightly higher up, a tiny space in the stars, the sea increases, what’s wrong with the rudder… but will they pick her up in Buenos Aires? … in a porsche
    no its Sunday morning. . . at least she tried

  12. Alek Lindus on July 13th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    the laundry basket is sonorous so is gravitas

  13. Rick Neece on July 13th, 2008 at 4:45 am

    I once used a laundry basket and a flip-chart pad to catch a wayward Starling who got down the chimney. The bats we catch with bath towels.

    There should be a poem in there somewhere.

  14. Michael Grant Smith on July 13th, 2008 at 6:03 am

    Rick, I think there already is.

  15. Rick Neece, there should be a poem in there somewhere : clusterflock on July 13th, 2008 at 9:16 am

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  16. Sheila Ryan on July 13th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    A flying valise would also be a lovely mode of transport for Alek, I think — a device such as the one that appears about 2:08 into this short film.

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