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Thursday, June 26, 2008
YEP
posted 7:37 AM
Providence deigns frequently to use for the most momentous purpose some pantaloon or puppet, environing with special protection and with the prayers and aspirations of whole peoples a mere mannikin.

--J.A. Symonds, on Charles VIII of France

Monday, June 23, 2008
I STEPPED UP ON THE PLATFORM. THE MAN GAVE ME THE NEWS.
posted 12:11 PM
Splitcoil, carrying exactly the right knife, covers an eldritch event in the Hendrix Hanger. Photographs laser-etched glass block on which some of the weaker sheep claim to have seen "an image".

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
I'D *WAY* RATHER BE TAZED, BRO
posted 4:43 AM
The street finds its own uses for things but...*ouch*.

Found on Boing Boing, source of so very, very much.

Speaking of which, I've not previously expressed my admiration for Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. As Wm. Burroughs was fond of saying, "young boys need it special". In the case of Cory's book, though, young girls need it special too.

Sunday, June 15, 2008
ANSWERING A FEW QUESTIONS
posted 6:46 PM
Over on the Barnes & Noble website. Tomorrow and Tuesday I won't be able to be on line much, but I'll try to answer as many as I can, after that. Please don't feel your question wasn't good, if I don't answer it. Some of the best questions just don't lend themselves to this medium (or to being even mildly tour-burned, which I definitely am, at present).

BROADWAY DUCHESS, DARLIN', IF YOU ONLY KNEW
posted 5:27 AM
A Steely Dan concert is akin to witnessing the passage of a single multiplex vehicle the size of a motorcade or convoy, its various segments comprising limousines, ice-cream wagons, hearses, lunch-carts, ambulances, black marias, and motorcycle outriders, all of it Rolls-grade and lacquered like a tropical beetle. The horns glint, as it rolls majestically past, splendid, a thing of legend, and utterly peculiar unto itself.

Saturday, June 14, 2008
LEXINGTON'S AIRPORT HAS BETTER WIFI THAN MOST HOTELS
posted 4:53 AM
Which is to say, *free* wifi. Free wifi should be like free drinking water, if you ask me.

I'm using it while waiting for a flight to Newark, the start of a long day I hope will end at Steely Dan's New York concert tonight at the Beacon Theater.