November 2008
24 posts
This is a fictional history.
My grandfather was a mechanic in the Air Force. He liked tools and he always wore coveralls and he once worked on Air Force One, when Eisenhower was President. He was a coward and he used to faint at the sight of blood and he was an alcoholic for most of his life until he died a few years ago. This was my father’s father. His wife my grandmother stayed at home and then later she sold...
Patti Smith - Helpless (Neil Young)
on better sleep
[Texture Tips]
Dude, Mark Bittman's kitchen is as tiny as yours. →
Except, actually, it seems bigger than my kitchen.
A lot bigger. With a window.
Watch When the Babies Read The Book of the Dead
The Hidingplace: “Installation with furniture, cardboard boxes, wood, plastic bags, sheets, blankets, comics, pillows, clothes, potato-chips, popcorn, alphabetical biscuits, sweets, Lego, actionmen, lamps, TVs, VCR, Science-Fiction movies, miniatyre-sculptures of plastecine, Super-Nintendo, stereo, LP-records.” [Flickr]
Encouragement
My girlfriend went away last Saturday. She flew to Illinois to be with family for about a week. Since we moved to Brooklyn together, I’ve left her alone for that long two different times. But being by myself here for so many days is new for me. It’s kind of like being on vacation - everything feels a little weirder (but also a little sweeter) and it’s hard to fall asleep. On...
Be Good To Them Always - The Books
The Gap Road
What My Hair Saw
Sunday, November 9, 2008.
Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire -...
Sandwich of the day: ham, scrambled egg, and...
Note: also in the running for sandwich of the week.
How to Not Get Home (How to Get Lost)
“…he toppled over, sprawled full-length, flat on his back and lay there, his massive neck slumping to one side, and sleep that conquers all overwhelmed him now as wine came spurting, flooding up from his gullet with chunks of human flesh - he vomited, blind drunk. Now, at last, I thrust our stake in a bed of embers to get it red-hot and rallied all my comrades: ‘Courage - no...
A List of the Figures that Appear on the North &...
North: Justinian, Muhammed, Charlemagne, King John, Louis IX, Hugo Grotius, Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, Napoleon
South: Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius, Octavian
Hugo Grotius? [Courtroom Friezes PDF]
Midlake - Young Bride (Live)
I like every version...
