May 2010
1 post
March 2010
3 posts
The Tallest Man on Earth: Into the Stream
February 2010
16 posts
Dr. Dog: The Breeze
Bob Dylan & the Band: Yea! Heavy and a Bottle...
“Respected Swiss scientist, Conrad Gessner, might have been the first to raise...”
– Don’t Touch That Dial!: A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. by Vaughan Bell—Slate (via vastandgrand)
January 2010
5 posts
today I changed a lightbulb!
1. I’ve built a house with only bodies, tools, and an old tractor and lived in it through several minnesota winters.
no running water // pumped and carried gallons and gallons all year round
no indoor plumbing // I’ve dug a few outhouse holes & braved them through the seasons
no electricity // made enough candles in late summer to last all through the dark winter
wood heat...
March 2009
10 posts
Watchbirds on a wire (wes johnson)
strange form of life :: bonnie prince billy
A Font of Type (from Leaves of Grass)
This latent mine—these unlaunch’d voices—passionate powers,
Wrath, argument, or praise, or comic leer, or prayer devout,
(Not nonpareil, brevier, bourgeois, long primer merely,)
These ocean waves arousable to fury and to death,
Or sooth’d to ease and sheeny sun and sleep,
Within the pallid slivers slumbering.
WatchNina Simone’s “Feeling Good” put to type