And
I make this guarantee: despite all the talk of war and drought and cultural
deracination, if you read any of the books in my catalog, you will feel
better, even way better, afterward than you did
before you started reading. Or I’ll eat my bicycle.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Or I'll Eat My Bicycle
It
won’t be at the level of, for instance, “A Night in Tunisia”---as Dizzy Gillespie perspicaciously described his song:
“It has withstood the
vaccisitudes (sic) of the contingent world, and moved, in an odyssey, into the
realm of the metaphysical.”---(in my dreams.)
But my book, Aperçus, is close to dropping, completing my production for
the year.
Monday, September 8, 2014
When the site most closely resembles a laundromat bulletin board, my work is done
The effects of a
far-distant hurricane brings summer in this locale to a hot and muggy conclusion.
The season was a busy one for me; my timesheet is much of this blog. Several projects were successfully completed,
several others were started and at this writing are in various stages of progress. My web site seems perpetually under
construction (like certain segments of the US interstate highway system); one
of those areas is the newly titled Screening Room, a space for links
to artists, photographers, videographers, musicians, and writers who I like---all
just a click away. I recently added two
links: SoCal Salty, which is a site
about (mostly Southern California) fishing, and the other is by world political
journalist Andre Vltchek. I don’t fish, and
I don’t like to eat fish, but I’m hooked on good writing and the writing on
this site, by John Sarmiento, aka SoCal Salty, is very good. Andre Vltchek
caught my crypto-Luddite attention through an article about the prevalence and
sovereignty of smart phones and digital technology in Southeast Asia. He writes of the “gadgets” as having “fully
overwhelmed” Southeast Asian culture. He
says the digital world has turned Southeast
Asia “totally infantile.” And he concludes his observation: “What a joy for
corporations, elites, military and the West, to manufacture and then control
such societies!” Does this
“infantilization” in Southeast Asia remind us of anywhere else?
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
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