This morning I woke to the fragment of a dream about an interview with Patti Smith, who was about to play “People Have the Power.” My head has been buzzing with website ideas: more so content than formatting. I can tell that I still think about the stuff as a species of print publication more… Continue Reading
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Reasons to be cheerful…
Time to take a break from the troubling world of organizational mayhem for yours truly. The world is a big place with many very nice things in it. So in the spirit of Ian Drury, here are some of the things that bring a smile to my mug. Reason one: El Rey Gnomo is staying… Continue Reading
Both very gutteral the two of them…
A mostly inward weekend. During much of it I was working my way through the backlog of podcasts from the New York Review of Books. I’d subscribed on iTunes and made the mistake of adding all of my missed ones to my iPhone at once. They took up a lot of room so I determined… Continue Reading
Yes…
There is some sort of water park here. Overcast today, in the way that doesn’t portend breaking up later. I’ll make the walk into town after lunch anyway. The usual confused dreams about relocating studio, looking at possible rooms to rent, etc. The location shifting between San Francisco and Brooklyn. The things I thought I’d… Continue Reading
Not too much collapse, okay?
It’s not much of a retreat if you pull the rest of the world in after you. I have to remember that this magic little screen I have with me doesn’t provide much of a filter: the fact that can read the New York Times online, just like at home doesn’t mean that I should…. Continue Reading
I have a new safeword…
The eepc is now running eeebuntu. After messing around with it on a stickdrive for a while, I decided to bite the bullet and ditch the operating system Asus shipped it with. But this is being written on the desktop. I’m seated in my office chair and Lehigh is perched on the bed, pawing at… Continue Reading
Crankcase and Creation…
On the way to work today, the thought struck me that it’s hard to talk about not making art without it sounding like an alarm. I (and I think most of us) are used to thinking about the process of working as one of dramatic highs and lows, where every stumble is something to be… Continue Reading
Blot…
Drippy outside, but this time it feels like spring. Yesterday I read Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader, which is a lovely fantasy about how people become writers. There are some good jokes Had a full vegetarian day and am in the middle of another. Not a lot of organizing happened yesterday after all. The desk… Continue Reading
This time it was open…
The staff being sufficiently developed, I was able to go to the library and activate my card. The DVD collection looks pretty good, The place was packed, but still seemed to be working quite efficiently, despite the numbers. I had to exercise some restraint, keeping out of the stack for the most part because I… Continue Reading
Yeah, but…
..what about if you can’t get to the door to open it? I’d let my Brooklyn library card lapse years ago, but recurring trips past the revived main branch kept reminding me that I should really get my ass in gear and sign up again. Public libraries are one of the best uses of my… Continue Reading