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Ode to 2008

2008-12-31T12:16:00.006-06:00

Bells: Ay, she was good to me.
Whistles: Ay, she was good to me.

Flight Status

2008-12-19T08:49:00.001-06:00

Check.
Refresh.

Monkey Face: Preferred 2 to 1

2008-12-14T13:22:00.002-06:00

Symptom: boots and books lost in flood waters, a metaphor.
Cure: recall that this isn't the lottery, but pottery, poetry.

Une poche

2008-12-10T10:20:00.004-06:00

Symptom: you have forgotten your keys for the first time in your life.
Cure: go to the movies.

Une oeuvre

2008-12-06T22:20:00.005-06:00

Symptom: Les moments volés valent-ils plus que le doughnut?
Remedy: (Rappelons): l'intimité de la forme (et son inverse) ne vaut rien sans l'ambassade.

(images courtesy www.furhatworld.com)

As seen on

2008-12-03T20:26:00.002-06:00

a. the train
b. the tele
c. the liver

Color me

2008-11-30T19:48:00.006-06:00

Seasonal: tables, toasts, gusto.
Hybrid: trains, basements, parents.
Delicate: all of the above plus future rendez-vous.

Chords

2008-11-24T22:18:00.003-06:00

A. Living in the midst of elevated symbols and magnificent allegories, he too easily lets himself be drawn into translating his characters into tones and _______.
B. But these reservations must not make us forget that, with ___________, we find ourselves in the presence of a work of exceptional quality.
(E.V.--with omissions).

Degrees

2008-11-23T10:03:00.003-06:00

(1) form, which is fundamental to the object.
(2) objective surface, which, being an intrinsic component of form, is equally fundamental to the whole.
(3) subjective surface, which is a mere illusion of the visual faculties.
--A.R.

Poise

2008-11-17T08:31:00.002-06:00

Symptom: you telescope in on various psychic networks thanks to a dream of forgetting that you had to remember was only a dream. (a.m.)
Cure: it is always about water. (p.m.)

333

2008-11-12T21:35:00.002-06:00

A: "... necessity was the inventor of clothing, and what has art to with necessity?"
B: "In poetry a garment is not a garment; it conceals nothing; our imagination sees right through it."
--GEL

We love great works

2008-11-09T11:59:00.001-06:00

Era 1: anxiety was the motor.
Era 2: pleasure is the motor.

AND SO DID WE

2008-11-05T02:34:00.001-06:00

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flash: Change is here

2008-11-03T14:50:00.001-06:00

Monday: excellent news has arrived.
Tuesday: more excellent news must arrive.

Calling Fossils

2008-10-30T19:41:00.004-05:00

Symptom: there is fear that there are no pigeons in Chicago.
Cure: work at your desk and keep looking outside.

Clowns

2008-10-26T20:31:00.004-05:00

Symptom: there are people, includng your fathers, who will not change their voting pattern.
Cure: attribute it to altitude sickness; lack of oxygen. Take a full cup of cottage cheese mixed with flax oil and cayenne pepper. Once daily.

2008-10-24T23:40:00.004-05:00

Do Not Play

unless you want proof (of both symptom and cure).

Myopia

2008-10-21T23:54:00.002-05:00

Symptom: mass popular websites describe your eternal condition.
Cure: consult the professional to whom you render weekly payment; continue to render payment. (cough, cough)

You Old

2008-10-19T22:16:00.002-05:00

Symptom: hostage situations, "you must be....."; you think you might have been a police detective in a former incarnation.
Cure: lucky breaks, deals, surveillance videos, and writing on the flight of impulse.

How to relax

2008-10-17T00:11:00.008-05:00

1. coffee stop
2. cigarettes stop
3. yes stop
4. worry stop

Love, your friend located between the visible and the speakable

Despues

2008-10-11T12:02:00.001-05:00

Symptom: tick tock.
Cure: shape, impressions, and that theory you forgot to read.

B.C.

2008-10-07T23:38:00.002-05:00

1. McCain
2. Obama

Hurlements (?)

2008-10-06T00:08:00.002-05:00

A. Exchange value (?)
B. Self-portrait.

Please Cubs Please

2008-10-04T22:23:00.001-05:00

Bottom of the 4th: swing on a ball.
Top of the 4th: we're gonna pop some hits.

sagittal planes

2008-10-01T20:28:00.006-05:00

View 1: one has been speechless.
View 2: one has been particularly focused.

What you think

2008-09-27T13:16:00.005-05:00

Symptom: bluster, bubble, uncongenial. Bad hair.
Cure: stems and roots. Be judicious. Serious.

Décor

2008-09-25T23:05:00.002-05:00

Symptom: you are the youngest person there; you are a hippie.
Cure: let it all hang out. Carnet in hand, flex.

Between a Rock

2008-09-21T18:55:00.004-05:00

Symptom: last day of summer.
Cure: first day of summer, next year.

Le Sac

2008-09-19T00:34:00.004-05:00

Symptom: summer is going, going....
Cure: parka.

Atlas*

2008-09-16T11:35:00.002-05:00

1.a: (...) " Par un tel continuum, l'extérieur ne se distingue pas de l'intérieur, rien ne se découpe ni se tranche, ni l'art en parties, ni en éléments les choses."

1.b.: (...) "L'histoire de l'histoire naturelle expose donc, au long des siècles, une méditation continuée, exacte et variée, sure le thème du lieu, en s'élevant de la localité concrète, traversée par l'observateur et vécue par l'observé, à l'espace propre à une nomenclature raisonnée."

*M. Serres

A Real No Hitter

2008-09-15T01:15:00.002-05:00

Runs Batted In: construction, design-less towns, visits, and the ticking clock.
What does this mean: downtime, human Sunday style. And chicken.

Plastico

2008-09-13T13:24:00.004-05:00

Symptom: the people need to have the scales ripped from their eyes; people are saying that they are reminded of 04.
Cure: set up shrines now.

Wig on a Pig

2008-09-11T12:57:00.004-05:00

Symptom: the outrage is palpable everywhere.
Cure: let them wear lipstick.

Your Concepts are Showing*

2008-09-09T18:50:00.002-05:00

A. Scientific
B. "Commercial"
C.__________. (drw)
D. Hobby.

(*Minor White)

The Simple Things

2008-09-08T16:29:00.002-05:00

Wet: the streets, the sandwich, the floor.
Dry: the wring around the flat, find the dead spaces and eradicate them.

White shoes

2008-09-03T00:07:00.002-05:00

Labor: playing trombone in a cemetery; 97 degrees; 100% humidity; losing streak.
Memorial: W.

("I think about my work every minute of the day." --Jeff Koons)

Runs batted in

2008-09-01T22:31:00.002-05:00

Symptom: lots of play.
Cure: go to bed early, make more tacos, and get out the blue mat. Make the change.

Eight into one

2008-08-28T14:52:00.003-05:00

Monday, Wednesday: projects for real.
Tuesday, Thursday: the out of doors; purchasing opportunities.

Archaeology of Cake II

2008-08-25T10:05:00.004-05:00

Layered: second helpings of that view that made you say, "What's in here?"
Tiered: do some yard work, finish the lingering tasks, and go with the flow.

Last night dreaming

2008-08-22T13:55:00.002-05:00

1. [T]he French usage requires an accent on the second e, in the formation of the compound term.
2. We may say in brief, however, that a plate of silver upon copper is prepared, presenting a surface for the action of the light, of the most delicate texture conceivable. --EAP

How to sit

2008-08-20T20:06:00.006-05:00

1. Be calm.
2. Look the span.

Mine, yours, and theirs

2008-08-20T01:50:00.003-05:00

Impressionist: there and not there.
Pointillist: just sexy.

We were five

2008-08-18T18:35:00.002-05:00

Three days: cousin, cousin, Lantis Lady, yourself, and the (former) sleeping bear.
Four days: drive.

electric-leaves-electric-waterfall

2008-08-11T22:21:00.005-05:00

Take today: El pastor, tortilla, limes, limes, piri-piri, one gingerbread man.
Cette semaine: Chicago-Minneapolis-Crystal, N.D.-Minneapolis-Chicago.

The Pigeons

2008-08-08T12:41:00.003-05:00

Gaston: And whenever space is a value--there is no greater value than intimacy--it has magnifying properties.
Roland: Je suis fou.

Where you walk.

2008-08-06T19:11:00.003-05:00

Symptom: your new apartment is named 910 Foxy; you love where you work, walk, and who you talk to.
Cure: tell the past thank you, tell your Mom thank you, and look for the pigeon who is your dead grandmother: she has something to tell you.

Que Linda

2008-08-05T21:31:00.002-05:00

Near: the lost details that only you notice.
Far: it looks real, it feels real, so go with it. As they say, beauty.

First Impressions

2008-08-03T18:51:00.002-05:00

Ceilings: higher makes for 3 foot bubbles.
Floors: wood makes for better.

New Address

2008-07-31T20:23:00.004-05:00

"The house shelters day-dreaming."

(for: The Holiday Inn Business Suite, and then The Honeycomb Hideout).

From the rooftop

2008-07-30T18:46:00.004-05:00

Symptom: the passage from cordial
Cure: to vocal (à bon chat, bon rat)

The archaeology of cake

2008-07-29T12:14:00.002-05:00

The scene of the crime: one weekend in 03--an emptied pool, belt buckles, upstate.
Returning to the scene: en route, them; thinking about criminality--theirs, mine, everyone's.

quierro: a different country

2008-07-27T19:42:00.004-05:00

Symptom: English as a first and a second language.
Cure: birria day, berets, non-alcoholic beer--tous fundido avectigo.

Flavor

2008-07-24T08:54:00.005-05:00

Ailment: enzyme deficiencies causing unexpected extremes.
Remède: one part yogurt, one part confidence, two parts get up and go.

Weapons of mass

2008-07-23T08:21:00.002-05:00

Symptom: those dreams where you are clearly processing shit.
Cure: choose construction.

Contents may be hot

2008-07-21T13:22:00.005-05:00

1. Chicago-Iowa City: porch sitting (SWAKs--no apostrophe).
2. Chicago-Iowa City: archives de dadatude, with cats.

My body and I*

2008-07-16T09:21:00.006-05:00

Wednesday: *I am twenty-five years old. An age that can be reasonably expected to include pleasures other than solving riddles...*
Thursday: *Hello, mind clothed in a body* (*****René Crevel)

Out of left field

2008-07-14T13:31:00.009-05:00

Symptom: the unexpected from the better three-vowel state, and Belgium.
Cure: catch the pop fly, stand up, and sing: HOT DOG.
[to ensure the best effect, take note of this post's optical illusion. Note that it is not an illusion]

power luncheonette

2008-07-11T11:09:00.005-05:00

Plan a: the shape of time.
Plan b: like a painter would.

con/contain/conifers

2008-07-09T18:52:00.007-05:00

a. une image de la lune.
b. un jeu de douze référants qui est donné par l'étalage du contenu du coffre (MB).

The sea of...

2008-07-08T00:56:00.002-05:00

Worries: -.. . .- .-. / ... .. .-. ... / .--. .-.. . .- ... . / -.. --- / -. --- - / .-- --- .-. .-. -.--
No Worries: .. / .- -- / ...- . .-. -.-- / --. .-.. .- -.. / - --- / .... .- ...- . / -- . - / -.-- --- ..- / .... . .-. .

Voyons

2008-07-06T13:58:00.007-05:00

Tennis history: a small corrida played with a white linen muleta.
Corrida history: our friend in a very tiny tennis skirt.

Second Opinion: Guest Blogger, Dr. Elidyl (documents and dissolution)

2008-07-05T13:07:00.007-05:00

ambition: lights and action
repetition: a third, a first, a living still celebration

Sans titre

2008-07-03T21:12:00.004-05:00

Ailment: independence day mattress sales; sunken railroad tracks; the building that blocks the right half of the fireworks; being skeptical of fireworks.
Nostrum: leave the cooked heart of an artichoke in your refrigerator for exactly 6 days; remove the spiky tendrils; heat. Eat, followed by one large bowl of muesli.

unicorns, rainbows, and

2008-07-02T12:47:00.004-05:00

China: semi-finals; earthquakes
America: Indianapolis 500; floods

It rained

2008-06-30T23:15:00.003-05:00

Symptom: bad reception
Cure: some might wear just underwear and do a little dance.

pro: blem, active, tean

2008-06-26T23:13:00.005-05:00

On-line profile: insert image here.
On-line profiterole: cut to resemble swans (in some regions).

In...of a broken...

2008-06-25T11:26:00.001-05:00

Reading: someone who (approached) beating you to it.
Thinking: of what you have to say.

A calmer approach to new vocabularies

2008-06-22T22:43:00.003-05:00

Phonetics: long a, short a.
Foreign universities: how much ethics do engineers actually take?

S.W.A.K.

2008-06-20T00:39:00.002-05:00

Eh Oh!: ça veut dire quoi...Swak? Je te respecte et tout, mais, c'est un truc nazi ou quoi?
Ben: F.Y.I., sealed with a kiss. C'est un machin plutôt bébé je crois. Chépasmoi.

Some things are

2008-06-18T11:31:00.002-05:00

Exuberance: check out the too good to be true; they might be true. There aren't only scoundrels and gangsters.
Potlatch: architects, mentors, colleagues, and cousins: impending arrivals.

It's not easy being green

2008-06-15T16:12:00.005-05:00

Symptom: unruly habits.
Cure: fiction. and politics.

3 hour naps

2008-06-14T10:43:00.003-05:00

Symptom: the internet is destroying your brain.
Cure: seaside repose, or this strange thing called the lakeside. Flaubert.

Fruit on Stilts II or How to Prepare Manuscripts

2008-06-11T22:58:00.005-05:00

a. get to work.
b. do not name your work The Woman Who Wasn't.
c. never, under any consideration, use colored or decorated paper.

Fruit on Stilts or How to Think Clearly

2008-06-09T17:57:00.007-05:00

1. Science knows no magic power by which a tiny white terrier can be immediately transformed into a massive tawny St. Bernard. And there is none through which a congenial idiot or a low grade moron can be changed into a philosophic genius. --Grace Adams (c. 1928)

2. Chances are you had to be there.

Facts You Should Know About Heat*

2008-06-08T00:54:00.004-05:00

Observation 1: Upon arising in the morning if we step out on a tile floor we say it feels cold, whereas a rug will feel much warmer to the bare foot.

Observation 2: Oil may be burned on the top of a lake of water and the temperature of the water an inch or so below the surface will remain practically unaltered.

Question: Will someone discover a method whereby we can utilize all of the sun's gift of energy? That is one of the unanswered questions of the century.

*Lawrence A. Barrett, B.S., 1928

Mollo, mollo

2008-06-06T10:58:00.004-05:00

Post-post status: passé-composé, paralysis, grief, elation, disbelief, donner contre...
Future post-post status: futur antérieur, action, retrospective, spatial, donner sur...

ahorseyouare

2008-06-04T22:42:00.002-05:00

Wind: over one-hundred years of experience.
City: so much blitz.

Complimentary

2008-06-02T10:47:00.002-05:00

Knotted: things will work themselves out.
Snarled: don't worry; it's been a long time.

Double Feature

2008-05-31T02:04:00.002-05:00

Christmas: an old-time movie premiere with girls dressed to the nines. c. 1950.
Saturday: sometimes someone gives you a free ticket. Take it and say thank you (but remember, they do not want you to sit with them).

The keen, dead

2008-05-29T23:32:00.005-05:00

So: it's a salad bar.
So: line up. Un buffet n'a jamais tué personne.
So: rue, rue, rue de l'éternuement.

Providing Emotions Since 1539*

2008-05-28T20:45:00.006-05:00

Heard of Goats: your father said that this was so.
Kitty daddy: shoe in, but I'm waiting for my Poodle.

*Vive Québec

Eggs

2008-05-27T13:01:00.002-05:00

Benedict: you are currently surveying the city's interpretation of a classic.
Politics: fork it over.

100% human

2008-05-25T00:03:00.002-05:00

Left eye: suddenly, I'm seeing all blue-grey blurry; everyone's like Bette Davis. Do eye have retinal detachment?
Right eye: it's the tobacco, honey. You'll be fine.

Oh really?

2008-05-24T01:21:00.002-05:00

Half wit: so, are you into film?
Maternal vibe: yes, I do think so [the woman in question takes two pills quite literally, without regret, with a large glass of white wine] (You should not do same, but do send a nice note).

One origami, two origami

2008-05-22T22:19:00.002-05:00

In this context: you should rest.
By focusing solely on: you should continue resting.

Top Notch: a.

2008-05-19T23:45:00.002-05:00

b. Free Hair, Air Food
c. Air Hair, Free Food

Magniflora Glorifico

2008-05-13T22:21:00.004-05:00

Oslo: said
Paris: replied

The secret smile

2008-05-12T23:49:00.003-05:00

Knock: yes?
knock: you late (Avez-vous peur du cinéma?)*

*1928

More outside advice

2008-05-09T20:34:00.003-05:00

Dr. Wild: so what do you do when you come to a rough spot?
Dr. Nauman: It is necessary to have a dancer or person of some professional anonymous presence.

Outside advice

2008-05-07T19:56:00.003-05:00

Dr. Wild: what about Thursday?
Dr. Smith: everything to do with water would be in one place, and it would be in the form of a waterfall; and it would be enclosed, and plants would be happy there; washing the dishes would become a Polynesian thing...

mundi

2008-05-06T19:11:00.004-05:00

A: man approached you with a wide smile. His name was Jesus Garcia, President, Wood Interiors LLC--"Custom Made Furniture." He was building a small house where ice cream will be sold.

Fax: (312) 942-9774

p.t.k.s. +j

2008-05-05T23:56:00.005-05:00

The jaguar is the biggest cat in the Amazon jungle. It loves meat and will eat almost any living thing. Jaguars like to prowl the riverbanks and hook out fish with their paws. They also tackle sleeping alligators. No animal is brave enough to take on a jaguar.

--Amazon Rainforest by Arby's

let us add, to explain our title...

2008-05-04T19:11:00.010-05:00

that the pedestrian runs a lesser risk than the cyclist or the chauffeur. He exposes himself to simply falling from a standing position, and not to being thrown from a high-velocity machine, nor to the breakage of this valuable piece of equipment; so, until the day when this folly shall have ceased, namely that of allowing people to circulate freely on foot, without their having availed themselves of permits, number plates, brakes, bells, horns and lanterns, we shall continue to face that public menace: the killer pedestrian.

--Alfred Jarry

Erotic pictures with false teeth, bananas

2008-05-03T01:20:00.000-05:00

the world says

2008-05-02T10:40:00.001-05:00

Hello.

Edit post with that

2008-04-30T23:49:00.005-05:00

You said it: translator
Translator: hamburger.

La pluie verglaçante, le soir: mentir un peu

2008-04-28T21:31:00.009-05:00

But: but there is blossoming.
Pourtant: "Quel est ce murmure sentimental qui s'élève? Les fauteuils d'orchestre se prendraient-ils pour des musiciens?"--Aragon

Appropriate Lighting

2008-04-27T10:14:00.003-05:00

Stack: all things in a random order and obey instinct.
Pile: up your towels on the make-shift couch and get ready for the construction guys.

Plante herbacée vivace, vénéneuse

2008-04-24T21:41:00.006-05:00

Symptom: Elles peuvent être isolées--feuilles alternes--ou par paires, en face l'une de l'autre.
Cure: Water frequently; prunes.

Iampersuadedthatfossilsarealive1

2008-04-22T22:52:00.009-05:00

1.Robinet via Bachelard
2.And the dark green yews growing under the taller trees were familiar to me too, as familiar as the cool air which enveloped me at the bottom of the ravine and the countless windflowers covering the woodland floor, faded now in April...--Sebald