Last night I went to a World Music show featuring David Daniell, Mountains and Tim Hecker. I’ve seen Hecker before, when he was touring to promote his album Mirages, and this time he played (“played” – laptop plus a stack of other electronics) a shorter set of a variety of stuff, including pieces from my [...]
Lionel Chetwynd:
Although born long after the Civil War, I have lived through this struggle before. In the 1960s, Pierre Trudeau took Canada, then a country of self-reliant, broad-shouldered, rugged individualists, and by sheer force of political magnetism, transformed it into a post-modern society, a European clone of overtaxed politically correct worrywarts subject to heavy taxes [...]
I’m soooo ordering this print when it’s released. (click for the whole thing)
UPDATE: Got it – just need to frame it, along with a bunch of other crazy stuff I picked up recently.
I was just walking home from work in Arlington Center (!) and totally saw a pimp drop off a smokin’ hot young hooker at an apartment building on Mass Ave.
For a second I was tempted to call out “What’s in that envelope is for my peace of mind. My peace of mind is worth [...]
It’s like I’m in my 30s again… except with no tolerance! Haw.
Brian suggests:
Maybe you could even buy weapons, ammo and drugs from vending machines!
As I said to TJIC today, while discussing the Failed Obama Presidency™ : “People get the government they deserve. Anarchotopia will have to be earned.”
Cool! The Z now has an audio archive – shows stick around for two weeks.
Can’t download them yet, only stream ‘em… hopefully they’ll turn themselves into a full-on podcast service soon. It’s unfortunate that so many things of value are ephemeral when they don’t have to be.
Bulletflight:
the Bulletflight ballistics calculator, which predicts the trajectory of bullets fired from high-powered sniper rifles by taking into account half a dozen variables including wind speed, distance, outside temperature and altitude. After digesting all the information, Bulletflight tells you where exactly on the sniper scope you should position your target in order to hit it.
Sweet! [...]
Dammit – I’m trying to buy the FLAC release of Kangding Ray’s Automne Fold but boomkat’s down (what a logo, huh?). Wait – it’s back. The internet has trained me to expect instant gratification – I was getting really annoyed for a minute there.
Three things I like! The Fun Years, container shipping, and general weirdness.
More here.
Lifted again – whoo-hoo!
Why, it’s almost as good as smacking TJIC in the face with a frilly white glove, in front of all the Court hangers-on.
Started lifting again. Ugh. I’m weak. But, the ol’ heart-rate’s been up a bit for about 20 minutes so far, which I think means that it wasn’t a total waste.
“woot”, as the kiddies say.
Ordered!
You can listen to what might be the whole thing here.
(Hymn to the idea of night sounds like something Steven Millhauser would write… )
Rocking! Droning! New TFYs : baby it’s cold inside.
I’m so sick of books, movies, whatever, with titles of this format. Maybe I should write a book, and title it Gerund Noun.