Monthly Archives: March 2009

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-29

Posted on March 28, 2009 by sh

I don’t much care for this gray zone of owning and not possessing. # Bicycle prices in the last two years have gone up nearly 100%! WTF?! # Had the teaching in my underwear dream. # My workshop has been … Continue reading →

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reading Balzac

Posted on March 28, 2009 by sh

10% of the 100% of the things I underlined in Balzac’s Eugénie Grandet (as summarized by Mac OSX’s SummaryService): This language of secret signs which they alone can interpret forms, as it were, a freemasonry among people of like passions. … Continue reading →

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hillbilly beatboxing

Posted on March 25, 2009 by sh

I found this on WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. Where I also found this: along with the following sentence: As Deke and others have pointed out, there seems to be a strong connection between the otherworldly sounds made by hillbilly … Continue reading →

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“Blood From the Shoulder of Pallas”

Posted on March 24, 2009 by sh

[text from Watchmen; images borrowed from the internet] “Is it possible, I wonder, to study a bird so closely, to observe and catalogue its peculiarities in such minute detail that it becomes invisible?” “I believe that in approaching our subject … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-22

Posted on March 21, 2009 by sh

I like @tierack’s idea that tweets are almost meaningless except as later conversation pieces. # @cornelln In a way, yes. But in a way, no, because, for instance, you and I know each other and don’t need to break the … Continue reading →

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We are home owners!

Posted on March 20, 2009 by sh

We just got home from what everyone else involved in the process described as one of the smoothest, fastest closings ever. We now own a house! We don’t take possession until Monday, but I have the key in my pocket … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-15

Posted on March 14, 2009 by sh

Despite reminders, I forgot. Thank goodness our computers don’t. # I love vacuuming. I hate brushing the cats. # Just one more thing. Only 500 words. If that. # A book by Roni Horn without photographs? # “Utter it all, … Continue reading →

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Thank you, Bernard “Hap” Kliban

Posted on March 11, 2009 by sh

*** *** I’m not sure, but the best thing about these drawings might be the fact that the products are drawn in more detail than the men and their surroundings. Now, let’s talk about Warhol. *** More about Kliban here.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-07

Posted on March 7, 2009 by sh

@andrewwickliffe You have a pet named Omar?! Is it a fat orange cat like our pet named Omar? in reply to andrewwickliffe # “The espider monkey, one of the faster monkies in the jungle.” # At urgent care with J … Continue reading →

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peacemakers_tattoo.jpg

Posted on March 5, 2009 by sh

I don’t remember where I found this, but it’s been sitting on my desktop for far too long. It’s time to do something with it. Here, enjoy:

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