July 2007
22 posts
Peter: what is paper punching?
Nathan: it is when you have a roll of butcher paper
Nathan: and two post apocalyptic warriors hold the ends
Nathan: while another punches the paper in disgust
Metolius River, Deschutes, Jefferson
Three of the western tributaries of the Deschutes have their sources in giant springs—Metolius, Spring, and Fall rivers—and of these three, the Metolius is the largest and longest. It flows from the north base of Black Butte, full-bodied and icy cold, and, after winding northward through beautiful pine forests, swings around the north end of Green Ridge through a canyon of great depth...
Cage calls them “mesostics,” a literary form generated by chance (in...
– Mesostic I-IV Part I.mp3 and Mesostic I-IV Part II.mp3 from UbuWeb
The first thing the baby did wrong was to tear pages out of her books. So we...
– jessamyn.com: Donald Barthelme : the first thing the baby did wrong…
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home...
– Oscar the Cat Predicts Patients’ Deaths
david markson interview →
More of the Phantom thing
Important Cartography
I dreamt about living in Williamsburg last night, three months after moving here. In the dream the East River ran east-west, which is how all rivers should be in my mind even though I’ve never actually lived near a river like that. They have all been north-south. Willamette, Chicago, Hudson, East.
They made this at work last week.. I could not stop laughing. It was the funniest thing to ever happen in the office.
nlj: I'm just saying it's easy to forget about how awesome the short things can be
nlj: like that Perfect Human movie
nlj: it's a short
nlj: but it's awesome
pbm: http://www.theknowe.net/dfwfiles/pdfs/Wallace-Good_People.pdf
pbm: february new yorker
pbm: that dfw story had the barton fink effect on me
pbm: wherein I traversed several moods while reading: boredom -> loathing -> skepticism -> acceptance -> holy shit
This may be stupider than anything William Safire ever wrote, and I do not use...
– Re: Kakutani’s review of A.A. Gill’s The Angry Island - languagehat.com: THE SOUND OF THE KJV.
Almost Perfect
pbm: tell me about the walrus situation
nlj: oeao
nlj: basically this freaky walrus dude
pbm: he is into walruses? or he is a walrsu?
nlj: like how bats are to vampires
nlj: this dude is to walruses
pbm: impossible to understand
pbm: amazing analogy
Jan Švankmajer - 1989 - Manly Games →
This video is the best