In the early darkness, each city bus is an illuminated stage-set: Nighthawks on wheels, dioramas scuttling to museum-safety.
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I dreamt a topical treatment for scurvy: patients enter a bouncy castle, and collide with oranges.
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To feel sufficiently under the weather is to become the weather.
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A litigator's philosophy: death is the ultimate Exclusionary Rule.
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11.18.2009
11.13.2009
Quote of the Day/Irish Edition
Author Cormac McCarthy during WSJ interview describes his research for The Road . "I have these conversations on the phone with my brother Dennis, and quite often we get around to some sort of hideous end-of-the-world scenario and we always wind up just laughing. Anyone listening to this would say, 'Why don't you just go home and get into a warm tub and open a vein.'"
WSJ: Brotherly conversation just turns to the apocalypse?
CM: More often than we can justify.
WSJ: Brotherly conversation just turns to the apocalypse?
CM: More often than we can justify.
11.04.2009
Hire More Horsemen
The Association of Booksellers for Children just published its ABC Best Books for Children catalog. It lists The Carbon Diaries 2015 with the following header:
"HERE COMES THE APOCOLYPSE".
"HERE COMES THE APOCOLYPSE".
11.03.2009
CHANNELING ROY BLOUNT
Of course the world revels in the American robbers who disguised their faces with masks and beards: drawn with permanent marker. National pride militates that we reclaim this rich material, and recast in our native tongue -- country songs.
I used the permanent marker
because I thought that you were mine
I scribbled on your torso--
thought you'd stay between my lines
But the package didn't warn me!
Beware the oxidants!
Not to mention that roadside bar,
peroxide bleach low-rents
I used the permanent marker,
but she scrubbed you head to toe
You think you are your own clean slate,
but the future you should know
She is stocking up on colors!
Not one of them flesh-tone!
Brace for the mirror! Skip that shave!
Dot-stubble now spells "owned"
I used the permanent marker
because I thought that you were mine
I scribbled on your torso--
thought you'd stay between my lines
But the package didn't warn me!
Beware the oxidants!
Not to mention that roadside bar,
peroxide bleach low-rents
I used the permanent marker,
but she scrubbed you head to toe
You think you are your own clean slate,
but the future you should know
She is stocking up on colors!
Not one of them flesh-tone!
Brace for the mirror! Skip that shave!
Dot-stubble now spells "owned"
10.31.2009
This morning's door-tag:
Isn't this a tad imperious, even for the U of C? The great seal, the Study for which University of Chicago is adequate identification, the declarative use of "will": all reduced me to serfdom before the second cup of coffee. I started to murmur condolences to my castrated dog on the approaching droit du seigneur.
The Latin motto Crescat Scientia Vita Excolatur is, roughly translated, "knowledge grows when no one is treated as human." At the U of C, even the social sciences aren't soft.
Isn't this a tad imperious, even for the U of C? The great seal, the Study for which University of Chicago is adequate identification, the declarative use of "will": all reduced me to serfdom before the second cup of coffee. I started to murmur condolences to my castrated dog on the approaching droit du seigneur.
The Latin motto Crescat Scientia Vita Excolatur is, roughly translated, "knowledge grows when no one is treated as human." At the U of C, even the social sciences aren't soft.
10.30.2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them."
Wolf Hall (Mantel)
"When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them."
Wolf Hall (Mantel)
10.08.2009
HOME TRUTHS
"Recession" is spelled with a D
Two guys tuckpoint a window-well while blasting their ubiquitous contractor radio, tuned to the local NPR station.
The art of persuasion is dead
The square, white panel truck is labeled SEWER AND PLUMBING REPAIR, but I can't quite discern the painted detail until we stop at a light. An outlined slice of bread is smeared with brown, and surrounded by flies.
Logo: "Your shit is our bread & butter."
The quotes were in the original, so I fear matching letterhead.
And toast.
The end of the world is a journey
A junior high school librarian, located in a wealthy Chicago suburban district, just lobbed this query to her librarian peers. What to do when the principal installs a large-screen television in the library, to play CNN throughout the day? Does she have standing to object even if he agrees to mute the volume?
"Recession" is spelled with a D
Two guys tuckpoint a window-well while blasting their ubiquitous contractor radio, tuned to the local NPR station.
The art of persuasion is dead
The square, white panel truck is labeled SEWER AND PLUMBING REPAIR, but I can't quite discern the painted detail until we stop at a light. An outlined slice of bread is smeared with brown, and surrounded by flies.
Logo: "Your shit is our bread & butter."
The quotes were in the original, so I fear matching letterhead.
And toast.
The end of the world is a journey
A junior high school librarian, located in a wealthy Chicago suburban district, just lobbed this query to her librarian peers. What to do when the principal installs a large-screen television in the library, to play CNN throughout the day? Does she have standing to object even if he agrees to mute the volume?
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