Not clear why Polaroid photographs work so well with haiku-like notes, but pictures like this one raise a question…why did I ever recycle my SX-70? scarlet fields., originally uploaded by anna☆morosini. when the sun setson dark silhouettescollapse into dream From a fascinating project/circumnavigation of the Sea of Norway called Fourlines. The blog about it isContinue reading “Photographic haiku”
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A journo’s complaint about websites
Joel Achenbach is touring college campuses with his daugher, and, no doubt, embarrassing her horribly. Here he rants memorably against a certain irritating habit of spokespeople: …journalism [is] a field in which every query directed to a potential source draws the response, "You should look at our Web site." Many a time I have toContinue reading “A journo’s complaint about websites”
How we see the world today — through the windshield
Does this look like a photograph? It's not…it's a painting by Gregory Thielker, who this year completed a series of phenomenally accomplished from-the-front-seat paintings called Under the unminding sky. Thielker writes: These paintings beame a way to explore how driving in weather shifts and changes the views outside the car as well how the drivingContinue reading “How we see the world today — through the windshield”
Tennessee Williams: the playwright at age two
Turns out Tennessee Williams' mother Edwina Williams published her memoirs, called Remember Me to Tom, back in l963. It's a very good thing she did, for she tells a slew of great stories. Reading her "as told to" book, it's easy to hear her speak, and easy to guess where Williams got the model forContinue reading “Tennessee Williams: the playwright at age two”
Happy 70th Birthday, John Lennon
Thirty-three years ago, long before John Lennon was shot and killed, the late great David Levine imagined what he would look at when he was sixty-four, or, today, when he would have been seventy. Something tells me that Lennon, quite a line artist himself, would have been a little tickled to see himself in theContinue reading “Happy 70th Birthday, John Lennon”
Three strikes for bears
Ted Rall likes to work from bizarre but real news stories. Sometimes this makes his work seems a little beyond belief, but when you see the context, it all begins to make sense…in a 21st sort of way.
“War and Peace” in one sentence
I looked up War and Peace and it's about this guy Pierre who fights in France, and all this terrible stuff happens to him, but in the end because of his charm he gets to be with this girl he really loves, and who really loves him even though she cheated on him. Gary ShtenygartContinue reading ““War and Peace” in one sentence”
The truth about Super Sad True Love Story
Super Sad True Love Story is a brilliant new satirical novel, set in the near future, built on what writer Gary Shteyngart realized was the crucial difference between the great futurist novels Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and l984, by George Orwell (of course). As Shteyngart points out in this typically great interview withContinue reading “The truth about Super Sad True Love Story”
The science of attraction: which size do men prefer?
In response to complaints from fans that this site is too doomy, an effort is being made to look for insights offered into subjects less dire than climate change. (And, to be fair, climate change will not be all bad for everyone; after all, it might tend to cool L.A.) But nevermind. Here's a storyContinue reading “The science of attraction: which size do men prefer?”
Environmentally Incorrect: the Peripheral Canal
…as depicted by the late, great Paul Conrad: We as a state have forgotten — if we ever knew — the environmental facts about the peripheral canal through the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta, but we remember this: the l982 vote against its construction was an expression of a resentment against Southern California. That's what Paul ConradContinue reading “Environmentally Incorrect: the Peripheral Canal”
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