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And when I first saw one of those trees, I thought, “That is how I think.” Little thoughts just sprout off and drip down and take root, and then they end up supporting more and more tendrils of thought, until it all coheres into one thing, but it’s still rickety-looking and spooky.
headline of the day, II
54 Bags of Heroin, Pills & Loose Change Found in Woman’s Vagina
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Amazon Seeds Spread Best by Fish Poop
from the archives: February 2, 2007
Mesdames et messieurs, je vous présente Les Chauds Lapins:
(Clickez sur la photo; you can also see the video more crappily, at MySpace.)Why yes, since you asked–those are banjo ukuleles. Aren’t they the cutest things?
Les Chauds Lapins means literally, ‘the hot rabbits.’ Figuratively it means someone who is always turned on sexually. Usually, it refers to the guys who are always hitting on girls. This music will cause you to recklessly try your luck.
A thirteen-track album is apparently “‘in the can’ as they say.” And if you, as I do, enjoy Meg Reichardt’s singing, you may also like her band The Roulette Sisters.
(No, I do not know these people.)
And today, March 24, 2011, Les Chauds Lapins live in the studio on WNYC’s Soundcheck.
mathematical legislation?
Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-Ala.) wants to legally change the value of π:
Roby, raised in Montgomery, Ala., is on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education.
“It’s no panacea, but this legislation will point us in the right direction. Looking at hard data, we know our children are struggling with a heck of a lot of the math, including the geometry incorporating pi,” Roby said. “I guarantee you American scores will go up once pi is 3. It will be so much easier.”
Democrats first responded to the measure with a mixture of incredulity and amusement.
I’m confused.
UPDATE: The internet tells me this is a sham. Thank god.
Metronomy – The Look
(via ★Chris Glass)
R.I.P. Richard Leacock (1921-2011)
Posted to the Association of Moving Image Archivists list. Subject line: Sorrow.
Ricky Leacock died this morning in Paris. He was friend, teacher, comrade-in-arms, perpetual subversive and filmmaker extraordinaire. He changed the history of world cinema. And we loved him very much. – Joel DeMott & Jeff Kreines
By the Time It Gets Dark — Sandy Denny
You may know the version by Yo La Tengo, lovely in its way, but to my ears missing the deep sadness of the original by Sandy Denny, a sadness that lends all the more buoyance to its evanescent joy.
Made, pt. 1
I had the sneaking suspicion that I could do a lot better, so I pitched something over dinner to him as soon as I got back home. I wasn’t even sure if he was actually interested or just being polite but he said he’d love to see a treatment. I’d written four pages of it at Sundance, just rough dialogue and certainly didn’t have enough to show anyone. I worked on it intermittently for a few weeks until he wrote and said he’d pitched the idea to a director, and even if she wasn’t able to direct she’d like to be in it. He wanted something to show her, so I wrote the first draft in four days. It took him a week to get to it, during which time I fretted and showed it to a few people who all said they really liked it and made some good suggestions for changes. When he finally read it he loved it, made some suggestions and I worked up a second draft in two days. It was decided that I should direct, and we moved forward with securing a line producer and began to talk about cinematographers and budgets and actors.
Wise words
I don’t know why it’s taken so long to figure out it’s good to draw something lots of times to get it right rather than just correcting the one piece.
puck defies the laws of physics, or something
Maybe it comes off the stick at the end?
That would be considered safe
A Toilet Room.
Natural Food Conservatory. Niagara, New York. [Between 1900 and 1906.]
More archival images of bathrooms, please.
(Note: The Natural Food Conservatory was one of the names of the company that made Shredded Wheat cereal. In 1928 the company was sold to what became Nabisco.)
Named for the shores, not what flows between them.
quote out of context
There is a lot of money to be made off of female desire and, it’s important to note, men’s desire to better understand it.
from the comments
I tend to favor short fiction, so I have struggled some with Proust and Henry James, and have not read some of their works that I should have. I have read Ulysses, though, and I remember the experience the way one might recall a two-week holiday in a wonderfully strange country. It’s the music of it I think of, and the fecund vibrance of the narrative that is so skillfully punctuated with stretches of sadness brought by perspective–walking a dog on a beach so bright and dim at the same time that it doesn’t seem to have a horizon.
twitter? (I hardly know her)
zen koan
The Q-Tips are out, so I clean my ears.
from the comments
I actually did that once — knocked on the door of a strange apartment in a strange city, and found the person I was looking for on the first try.
I can also memorize phone numbers by the tones the keys make when you press them. Likewise, I can tell you the number you just dialed by listening to you dial it.
headline of the day
Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars
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Hearing a familiar voice seemed to encapsulate everything that camaraderie came to mean
Over the years, all of us had seen men detained, blindfolded and handcuffed at places like Abu Ghraib, or corralled after some operation in Iraq or Afghanistan. Now we were the faceless we had covered perhaps too dispassionately. For the first time, we felt what it was like to be disoriented by a blindfold, to have plastic cuffs dig into your wrists, for hands to go numb.
The act is probably less terrifying than the unknown. You don’t know when it’s going to end or what comes next.
The story of four journalists from The New York Times caught in country without visas by the Libyan army.
I wanted to do something special for my 300th post
Seen here.
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