I just flipped into the last half-hour Spike Lee’s Malcolm X on iFC.
That is some moviemaking. Damn. Good to see again.
MJD doggerel part III
The Illuminated Donkey runs Nancy Goldstein’s Monkeys, Donkeys, and Junkies today, as it has on and off for a few months. So far, each time it runs, I write some doggerel. Why stop now?
When the monkey of the east
precedes the sheep about the quarter
with the biggest bang upon, not gong, but streetshowing value for your money –
not monkey – that is, also:
the biggest bang for your buck,
Hell Money dollars blow beneath the truckAnd then the sheep, not you but ewe,
are all a-snooze beneath
the soothing eye of ass,
that is, the donk –Whose mighty jawbone set
us upon the path
to Marduk and Ur –always in the company
of donk and monk of course(Please note
the mule, the ass, the donkey,
is not by any means a horse;
it’s thought, you see,
that as it sees the ewes
it keeps the monkey off the back)And so we hairless apes
went stumbling down the dusty path
into our urban hives;
and in our fitful stumble
do we not weave and nod and droop?We lean upon the donkey
and find the monkey on our back:
Like Rip Torn, if not on junk
we might imbibe and drive.If on the road he rode
the donkey with the monkey
he’d not be seen as drunk
and we’d be less one episode
of monkey, donkey, junk.
Blog's not dead no it's not
EmptyBottle.org: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Wonderchicken, says Stavros at great length. Word is, blogs are like parties. Mmmm. I folla. Not sure I agree. He, of all people, will understand my reference in the title here.
I get the whole blogs=punk rock thing. Part of what made punk valuable was moving beyond punk per se. Here’s a total tangent: punk rock is for old people, I think. I keep waiting for the next thing, the thing that will make me shake my head and wonder what the hell those kids are thinking, and it ain’t here yet. Blogs ain’t it. GWB ain’t it. Halo ain’t it.
Cell phones come pretty damn close, though.
Grey-haired indivizzles who once stood amazed as they listened to Joey Shithead rage and roar and now find themselves bloggizzle may enjoy Stavros’ thoughts. I did.
Blimpband: ADSL?
The Register: Airships to deliver broadband to rural areas, anti-blog news and humor site reports.
ADSL: Airship Digital Subscriber Line. No word yet on snappy uniforms.
B^2: update on Iowa
pretty cool
I just discovered that iTunes can burn to CD from a remote volume if that volume is mounted.
My connection to the remote volume is via a 10/100 hub, and both the burning machine and the host machine have 10/100 ethernet ports, so presumably the data was running at 100 – but still, that’s pretty cool. I was burning on both machines simultaneously from the same directory.
Donk-cision '04
The Illuminated Donkey flips on the teevee, Johnny Walker in hand, and blogs the Iowa caucuses. Among other learned observations, he notes that “less than 1% of Iowans are under 50 years old; seriously, it’s like that Soviet town they used to show in the yogurt commercials,” and that Joe Lieberman has a big future as a Chinese-food deliveryman.
And stop to admire the election-season graphics, why don’tcha. You’ll have to hum the puffed-up brassy pseudo-march soundtrack by yourself – just take Tom Waits’ “Jersey Girl”, imagine it all in majors and up-tempo with snares and no vocals and you’ll be on the right track.
Today it was sunny and 60, the white moutains bright in the distance as the cedar-scented breezes ruffled my hair.
Tintin au Lausanne
Tintin & Switzerland excites me with information on the real Marlinspike and other locales near Lac Leman, including a cameo appearance in The Calculus Affair of a place I have been. In fact, I was there rather frequently for a part of my life around 1982. The interior of the station at Lausanne stands in for one at Cornavin, presumably in Geneva.
via The Cartoonist, via, uh, things mag.
Jeez, the things citations are outta hand.
Making of America
Making of America: at Cornell.
…A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.
Via this typically thoughtful Paul Ford post.
Design inspiration, certainly. When, oh when, will I see my long-desired handbills archive out there in the aether?
Clueful male, HWP, moves to NYC
My pal David is moving to the city. He’s looking for places via craigslist, and I vouch for his personal hygiene and excellent education.
City people, can I get the hookups rolling?
He’ll be there to get housing on Tuesday and will move there in two weeks.