Weekly Picture 159
Goal, Zilker Park, Austin, TX 7.23.2009
Dreaming of Beach Cocktail Music
Texas Man Wins Hemingway Look-Alike Contest
Synchronized Dispensation
of the Hyper-Fragmentary Oracle.
My List
Cormac McCarthy Suttree
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy Child of God
Cormac McCarthy Outer Dark
Cormac McCarthy The Orchard Keeper
Donald Barthelme Sixty Stories
Donald Barthelme Forty Stories
Donald Barthelme Snow White
Donald Barthelme The Dead Father
Barry Gifford New Mysteries of Paris
Barry Gifford Port Tropique
Barry Gifford Francis Goes to the Seashore
Barry Gifford Landscape With Traveler
Raymond Carver Where I’m Calling From
Raymond Carver What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver Will You Please Be Quiet Please
Raymond Carver Cathedral
Gordon Lish Peru
Gordon Lish Self-Imitation of Myself
Gordon Lish Epigraph
Gordon Lish My Romance
Gordon Lish Extravaganza
Gordon Lish Krupp’s Lulu
Gordon Lish What I Know So Far
Gordon Lish Mourner at the Door
Gordon Lish Zimzum
Gordon Lish The Quarterly
Clusterfloat
Texas Weather
These two pictures were taken right outside our front door, about a month apart (June/July 09).
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Sunday Paper
The groom graduated from Bridgeport High School and the Dallas Mortuary Institute and is employed by Terminix Pest Control.
Basketball is big in Greece!
A little something from my recent visit to Crete. Toy camera and film.
Crawling from the Wreckage
Cam-phone photo. LG VX11000. July 25, 2009.
Crawling from the wreckage
Crawling from the wreckage
You’d think by now at least that half a brain would get the message
Crawling from the wreckage
Crawling from the wreckage
Into a brand new car
("Crawling from the Wreckage" written by Graham Parker. Given to Dave Edmunds.)
CATGUT Taco with all the Fixings
200books.com
To riff on Michael Pollan’s dictum: Read books, Read them well, Mostly Classics.
Amanda Patchin decided to spend her second baby’s first year reading two hundred books. She thinks it’s a good thing to do.
I’m a slow reader, but I’m game. Anyone wanna try? What would you plan to read?
P J Harvey – Horses In My Dreams
With a little help from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia. I had to cut the sequence a lot for the tune, so if you are interested in seeing the really quite beautiful scene, you can view it all here.
The Last Fighting Tommy
Harry Patch was Britain’s last surviving soldier from WWI.
Patch, who died Saturday at 111, was wounded in 1917 in the Battle of Passchendaele, which he remembered as “mud, mud and more mud mixed together with blood.”
Would you drive this vehicle?
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Sure, an orange and yellow vehicle in the shape of a hot dog might be tacky to some, but Outdoor Circle has taken real umbrage and wants it to be clear that the big dog shouldn’t come back.
Something in Spanish I didn’t understand
wow
The Bush administration in 2002 considered sending U.S. troops into a Buffalo, N.Y., suburb to arrest a group of terror suspects in what would have been a nearly unprecedented use of military power, The New York Times reported.
For context:
Dispatching troops into the streets is virtually unheard of. The Constitution and various laws restrict the military from being used to conduct domestic raids and seize property.
An article explaining who the Lackawanna six were.
Postcard from Brooklyn
Flatbush, Brooklyn
I’ve missed y’all.
Land Shark?
Witnesses told police the men dragged the shark down the street.
Fuck You
by Marion Peck (via Monoscope)
Dear Clusterflock: Is there a tune you wish you had never owned?
Mine is Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. I adored the tune; it made me intensely sad and yet made me smile and cry at the same time. If it came on the radio, it was the highlight of my day and yet the not knowing had its own wonder. Then one Christmas someone bought me the album that contained the tune. I remember that day vividly. I must have played it a dozen times on the trot and in doing so killed it. Suddenly that magic had evaporated.
I didn’t play it for years. I relied on chance offerings on the radio once more and slowly the magic came back. Now it moves me as much as ever.
I wish I had never owned that tune. What tune do you wish you had never owned?
I remember when we were driving driving in your car
Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
Ice Roads | For Cooper
Cooper. Cooper. What will it take to convince you that bracing cold is good?
What’s not to like about Canadian ice roads?
What’s not to like about Ice Road Truckers?
Useful and Beautiful Devices
Skinner’s July 2009 auction of Science, Technology & Clocks features the most comprehensive collection of scientific instruments to come to market in a long time. From a private collection, offerings include several important pairs of globes by Newton, a sextant by Ramsden, an octant by George Jones, equinoctial dials, astrolabes, chronometers, microscopes and nautical antiques.
quote out of context
Educated middle classes insisted that peeling off was a woman’s right, while family groups claimed exposed nipples would scare children.
