looking ahead to clusterflockstock
So when we all gather in May 2009 in Fannin County, Texas for clusterflockstock ( –X– days of –X– , –X– , and –X– ), will Jandek perform on the clusterflock –X– Stage?
The Originator (1928-2008)
It’s a truncated clip (from the TNT Show), but it vanished completely from YouTube a while back, so a little bit is better than none. Longer and nastier than the clip that once was up and now is down. Bonus: The Duchess.
And: you get two songs. “Hey, Bo Diddley”, followed by “Bo Diddley”. “Bo Diddley” commences about two minutes into the clip, and that’s when things start to get really juicy.
A woman watches a short movie.
“A woman watches a short movie about Jack the Ripper at the Museum in Docklands, London,” read the caption accompanying this photo from the Telegraph’s Week in Pictures feature. Quite naturally, I thought of Our India and wondered how she is getting on.
Dos personas en el centro de Sevilla
Andalucian mystery courtesy of Alexander Trevi’s Pruned.
Mike and the dogs
I snapped this at Mike’s birthday cookout. We had wieners. Where were y’all?
Paging Christopher Walken
I’m a little under the weather today, if Christopher Walken has anything to contribute.
Happy Birthday Michael Grant Smith!!
Juvenilia, circa 1970-71
Western Park Advertiser insert: Targeted marketing.
(Courtesy Steve Humphreys Collection.)
Eh, Sheila, that’s aspersions, not dispersions.
(Not) Born Yesterday
The last thing I read Thursday night was India’s Craigslist post; the first thing I read this morning was an emailed request from a friend, a filmmaker and video artist based in New Orleans. Pinning his hopes on a Chicago Craigslist post, he hopes to trade a computer monitor for a video deck and wrote to ask whether, if he ships the monitor to me here in northern Illinois, I’ll execute the trade with the Chicago dude.
I told my friend I’d act as his mule, but I warned him that he’d better not set me up to walk into a trap. ‘Cause if he’s looking to hand me over to white slavers, he needs to know that I am not gun-shy and that over the years I have learned how to shoot. I wasn’t born yesterday.
Big Cat in My Backyard
For two months now I have kept this to myself — because once you go claiming you got evidence of a cougar — a mountain lion! — prowling around east of the Mississippi River, you better brace yourself for the snopes.com treatment.
But I’m telling you, people: Just before Christmas (the Saturday before Christmas, matter of fact — a good ways past the end of the Midwestern golf season) Jon was out with his clubs on the fairway of the first hole of the South Course of Eagle Ridge Resort, which is, in effect, our backyard. And out there he ran into some silly people on cross-country skis who didn’t realize that they were on a golf course, daytrippers who believed that seasonal sign about a Nordic Ski Center and took the deep snow all about as confirmation of that ski trail nonsense. Well, he straightened them out right smart, you bet, and thought to resume his practice, but then . . . he saw The Tracks . . .
. . . and ran back to the house to tell me that I’d best get myself outside to take a gander at some prints in the snow.
“Holmes,” he said, “they were the footprints of a gigantic . . . cat.”
90 Day Jane
I am going to kill myself in 90 days. What else should i say? This blog is not a cry for help or even to get attention. It’s simply a public record of my last 90 days in existence.
This has hoax written all over it, but like a car wreck, I can’t resist.
Will it Fly?
Few things have produced derision and nerdfury like the debate over the Airplane on a Conveyor Belt. Basically the premise is this,
“A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band conveyer). The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyer to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction). Can the plane take off?”
Deron touched upon it the first time around and after some misfires, Mythbusters finally aired the show where the myth was tested, and Kottke live blogged it. He includes a helpful link to a clear explanation from someone smart than you or I.
They called him Lord of the Ring
…and Boss of the Board.
“Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board.”
Regarding Michael’s Work
Michael applies careful analysis to his treatment of current events as this candid photo clearly demonstrates. Deron, before you ask that he “focus his attention solely” on anything, look long into the face of this man.
Is this really what you want?
Join the Bike Gang Summit
I’m setting this invitation out early because it might take some of you awhile to make it down here by bike. Bike gang summits have a controversial history. While the 2007 Summit is one of gang unity, in the past there were incidents…
A local curmudgeon by the name of Colonel D. Williams (Ret.) has started a website to stop the summit from happening (www.stopthebikesummit.com)
I ask all flockers to do what they can. Do not let Colonel Williams win!
On Ghosts
“There are things that we need to point out that are crap,” Park said.
The Donkey Punch
“To the best of my knowledge, there is no definitive reflex in the human neurophysiology that induces involuntary tightening of the anal sphincter after receiving blunt-force trauma to the back of the head,” says Dr. Jeffrey Bahr, a faculty member at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth
“Things are happening,” said co-founder James Fetzer, a retired philosophy professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, who maintains, among other claims, that some of the hijackers are still alive. “We’re going to continue to do this. Our role is to establish what really happened on 9/11.”
Suburban Aliens
