January 2012
December 2011
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Take This Book: The People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street by Melissa Gira Grant, on Kickstarter
“This used to be a library: thousands of books, thousands of people, tended to by a dozen or so librarians in Zucotti Park, the first home of Occupy Wall Street…”
Somewhere in that library was my name, printed and bound above the first story I ever published. On a...
from Messiah (Christmas Portions)
This music
demonstrates what it claims:
glory shall be revealed. If art’s
acceptable evidence,
mustn’t what lies
behind the world be at least
as beautiful as the human voice?
The tenors lack confidence,
and the soloists,
half of them anyway, don’t
have the strength to found
the mighty kingdoms
these passages propose
—but the chorus, all together,
equals my burning clouds,
and...
James George, “Alley Posts” | Beyond The Beyond
“an old tourist movie from the future. filmed in an evening walking the streets of Barcelona with a handheld 3d scanner.”
…Beautiful.
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Dirge
thelazylazarus:
1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1; bought his Carbide at 30 and it went to 29; had the favorite at Bowie but the track was slow— O, executive type, would you like to drive a floating power, knee-action, silk-upholstered six? Wed a Hollywood star? Shoot the course in 58? Draw to the ace, king, jack? O, fellow with a will who won’t take no, watch...