Category Archives: words

Many thanks significantly.

This weblog is unquestionably fairly helpful because I’m in the second making a web floral web site – despite the fact that I’m only starting up out as a result it is truly relatively modest, practically nothing similar to this … Continue reading

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I liked your article is an interesting technology thanks to google I found you

“I liked your article is an interesting technology thanks to google I found you” Comment on a previous post [about the show at White Lotus] (blocked for the questionable embedded links). Nice rhythm.

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time

found text

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spam spam spam eggs bacon and spam

Just got a spam comment on the last post (“equinox”). Along with the usual embedded links there was a rather nice text. An excerpt: “In general, have a website for tension ceilings, fully skopipasten content from another site. [...] Twice … Continue reading

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counting to twelve

counting to twelve on 12seconds.tv inspired by bukoff (same thing, different direction) & jeroen offerman (same direction, way different thing)

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gallimaufry

Just finished Roland Huntford’s excellent biography of Fridtjof Nansen. ‘Gallimaufry’ makes an appearance near the end. A good word. A farrago. A hodgepodge. A salmagundi. A miscellanea.

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intransitive noun

I was catching up on some back issues of the NYT Book Review the other day and came across a review of the Roy Blount Jr book Alphabet Juice. Beyond sounding like quite a bit of fun (the book), I … Continue reading

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(i seem to be an) intransitive verb*

Main Entry: gal·li·vant Variant(s): also gal·a·vant \ˈga-lə-ˌvant\ Function: intransitive verb Date: 1823 2 : to travel, roam, or move about for pleasure _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ … Continue reading

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grenouille

Nice to see an article about Tomi Ungerer in the Times on Sunday. My introduction to Msr Ungerer, a number of years ago, came through watching a television program in a somewhat drafty village house on the outskirts of Uzes … Continue reading

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page markers

I was just picking up books here and there, making new piles out of old, and found that most of the books had little slips of paper stuck in throughout. You know, those little scraps you tear off the end … Continue reading

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time warp

The last post here, the work “ice . rock . drop“, took a few attempts to get right (the work, not the post). As larger stones pitched over (hitting the pavement and missing the water altogether) or sank into the … Continue reading

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cipriano

Another set of images – I came across a photo from awhile back that reminded me of the ongoing connected bits I’ve been occasionally putting up here. I had been working on some landscape/abstractions and had this painting sitting up … Continue reading

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kimya

OK, so I am probably the last person on the planet to get around to this but I just have to say it – Kimya Dawson is pretty dang cool. I’m having a lot of fun listening to her stuff … Continue reading

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boekie woekie

Nice little article, a week or so back, in the New York Times about Boekie Woekie. Boekie Woekie is one of those places that, just because you know it’s out there, makes you smile. Tucked away on a little side … Continue reading

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at first, many lulls

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w. g. sebald

Reading in the emergence of memory, the collection of essays and conversations by and about W. G. Sebald. Besides making me want to go back and reread the novels, I am enjoying these little gems that sparkle on the page … Continue reading

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michael pollan

Michael Pollan is a treasure (I was going to add gem, marvel and venerable scribe but it seemed a bit much). Just finished his latest book, “In Defense of Food”, and, once again, he has done a remarkable and compelling … Continue reading

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dime-store alchemy

‘Dime-Store Alchemy’ is a very nice little book by the poet Charles Simic. A collage, a collection, a consideration of Joseph Cornell (the alliteration was not purposeful, and actually makes me wince just a tad, but it is pretty much … Continue reading

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félix fénéon

   Scratching himself with a revolver with an overly sensitive trigger,    M. Édouard B. removed the tip of his nose    in the Vivienne precinct house. I’ve been reading a bit in ‘Novels in Three Lines,’ the Félix Fénéon … Continue reading

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the trouble with translation

I’m reading Yukio Mishima’s ‘The Temple of the Golden Pavilion’ right now and in the first 50 or so pages have run across the word pellucid twice. Not a word you happen upon often. And twice in so short a … Continue reading

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