February 2012
10 posts
Banana Prophecy
It seems to me this is how things like Skype work — just swap a physical window for a virtual one:
Day after day, we always kept an eye on each other’s windows, and so it felt almost as if we were living together. When Nakajima’s lights went out, I’d start to think that maybe it was time for me to hit the sack, too, and whenever I came back after a trip home and opened my...
Drinkify and Jive →
My tablet is cranking out The Clash right now, and Drinkify suggests I should sip an ounce of cocaine dissolved in an ounce of grenadine while listening. Miller High Life will enhance a Jimmy Buffett tune, and a bottle of pinot noir takes the edge off Sun Kil Moon. Miles Davis? One ounce of heroin. “Serve neat. Stir slowly. Garnish with salt.” Tuned into the Muppets? Drinkify says sip...
This Jobs for You
Apparently the Apple was wormy. (Or why I’ll never own another of their products.)
Pi
Last night a friend told the story of sitting down in a bathroom stall and finding a complex differential equation on a wall where smut was ordinarily posted.
“It must have taken ten minutes or more to work out,” he said, a little awed that someone would sit that long on a public commode.
“It is impossible for him to be a child of Amerika — no matter how he...”
– Eldridge Cleaver, in the introduction to Yippie! leader Jerry Rubin’s Do It!
“…every war suffers a progressive degradation with every month that it...”
– George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
Chico and Rita →
Billy Wilder or no Billy Wilder, “Chico and Rita” sounds like a jazz aficionado’s dream come true. I hope it wins an Oscar so I might get to see it.
Jackson Pollock: Unpublished Photos →
LIFE releases eleven previously unpublished photos of artist Jackson Pollock. In 1949 the magazine asked, “Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” A brief biography and overview of Pollock’s work can be found at the Artchive.
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Conrad
Reading Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo, this passage knocks me on my backside:
Mrs. Gould knew the history of the San Tomé mine. Worked in the early days mostly by means of lashes on the backs of slaves, its yield had been paid for in its own weight of human bones. Whole tribes of Indians had perished in the exploitation; and then the mine was abandoned, since with this primitive method it had...