Saturday, February 6, 2010
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
They’re really not all that bad, far better than the Seattle ones imho. I feel lucky to be here and a little un-nerved by how at home I feel. Odd, isn’t it?
Friday, November 20, 2009
The Method of Revision
1. Write all seemingly good lines
2. Examine every word to remove all possible latinisms and
unnecessary words
3. Examine the meaning of the sentences in their order
4. Examine the rhythm of the lines
5. Examine the rhythm of the whole
6. Then revision by contemplation
It’s annoying. Very annoying. And almost entirely meaningless.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Historical Births, Birth Rates, & Infant Mortality, 1920 – 2003
Los Angeles County
year: 1940 births: 42,856 birthrate: 15.1 deaths: 1,482 rate: 34.6
year:1930 births: 33,008 birthrate:14.8 deaths:1,738 rate: 52.7
year:1920 births: 18,009 birthrate:18.0 deaths:1,326 rate: 73.6
here’s another:
In the upper-class areas Liverpool England, 1899, 136 newborns out of 1000 would die before they reached the age of one. Working class districts maintained a rate of 274 infant deaths per 1000 births, and impoverished slums had a horrifying 509 infant deaths per 1000.
So the reason there’s no word for it is that it was not that long ago that it was by and large assumed that everyone had lost a child.
Monday, September 21, 2009
that time you told him
he could have a gallery show
and all he did for it
was lodge an axe in the wall
kick out your front window
and tag his name on the floor
I can’t think of anything
you could have deserved more
but in ten years only i will laugh
and you’ll just say that
it never mattered what we did at all
because it’s the most cruel way
you can think of to be.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
I love that _why vanished. I also love this and that Zed Shaw is Twitter in on it. I guess I don’t think Whys name was Jonathan Gillette. I also don’t really care. I just remember talking to him for a little bit at the Art && Code conference and he seemed nice. I also remember that he also got kicked out of the bar for not having ID which is interesting. Who doesn’t carry an ID around with them? I know a few people who don’t and they’re all pretty punk rock. By which I mean they don’t have IDs bank accounts or anything else that ties them to anything. I’m sure Why had all the things “responsible” people are expected to have, that’s not what I mean to suggest. I’m just enjoying that the one time I actually met him in person he was wearing sunglasses at night and got kicked out of a bar for not being to prove who he was 