I was in the theatre audience of a large awards show, on TV, and Michael Bolton was accepting a lifetime achievement award. While he was speaking, a bunch of his assistants were going through the audience and passing out dental floss to everyone and whispering for us to all floss in unison.
.blindness.
09 November
05 October
Trying to make a traditional Estonian wooden house at least slightly warm for the (surely brutal) winter ahead: 5cm thick Paroc FAS4 insulation, to be covered with a lovely red clay.
26 July
We carried you in our arms on Independence Day
And now you'd throw us all aside and put us all away
Oh, what dear daughter 'neath the sun could treat a father so?
To wait upon him hand and foot and always tell him "No"
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so low
And life is brief
It was all very painless
When you went out to receive
All that false instruction
Which we never could believe
And now the heart is filled with gold
As if it was a purse
But, oh, what kind of love is this
Which goes from bad to worse?
Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?
Come to me now, you know we're so low
And life is brief
We pointed you the way to go
And scratched your name in sand
Though you just thought it was nothing more
Than a place for you to stand
I want you to know that while we watched
You discovered no one would be true
And I myself was among
The ones who thought
It was just a childish thing to do
09 June
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The Depressed Person
In many ways this is still my favourite thing DFW ever wrote, and it's great that the whole thing is available here as a PDF.
... 'the empty apian drone of the dial tone' ....
08 June
11 May
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The guardian liked to discuss with young people their 'approach.' But that word meant 'coming near,' and often what the guardian meant entailed being 'already there.'
--Joseph McElroy, Hind's Kidnap (1969), p. 128
09 May
30 January
02 January
01 January
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All You Have to Do is Ask
I'm generally a big fan of Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker, on WFMU, but this WikiLeaks special show was particularly good.
20 December
05 December
30 November
20 November
11 November
22 October
21 October
06 October
16 September
29 August
I'll post more on Icewhistle in a bit...
01 August
07 July
I love the way that red wine smells the next day, when you've left a centimeter or less in the glass. That stale, slightly-off odor - it's musky in the right way. It's wafting into my window right now, just after midnight on a random Wednesday night in Vallila, but it can't be wine I smell - instead, an olfactory impostor. I don't know where it's coming from. I like it.
22 June
