To create art and survive, intact, in defiance of death, is moral to a point of utter recklessness.

Stockhausen

a drive-by delivery of four pies

Judith Butler on Diane Arbus:

If Arbus is subject to the criticism that she casts psychological illness or developmental challenge as utopic, perhaps a rejoinder ought to be that it would be equally wrong to conceive of psychological disorders as producing lives that can only suffer. Arbus insisted that these photos were "beautiful," and she clearly portrayed the pleasure in the body that could be taken in partial obliviousness to the norms by which it is governed. Her photographs "grant" the bodily tricks and performances of these subjects their dignity.

"The greatest use of marriage is for riveting the fact of paternity in the male mind."

Minding the Darkness:
A Poem for the Year 2000:

Like other long poems by older men (I am now seventy), it toys dangerously with abstract didactic impulses at the end; and predicts with Shelley that both outer and inner enlightenment (the current word is development) are damned, even murderous, if they do not honor each other.

Peter Dale Scott

Ayer's Sarsaparilla
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August Flower
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Dalley's Magical Pain Extractor
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Schenck's Mandrake Pills
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J.C. Childs & Co. Green Label
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David Nicholson's Liquid Bread
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
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Mother Gray Sweet Worm Powders
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Brown's Household Panacea
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Dr. Jayne's Expectorant
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St. Jacob's Oil
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Ham's Oil of Gladness
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Keep smiling



all links ibid. below

Carter's Little Nerve Pills (detail)
Patent Medicine Trade Cards
Collections
UCLA Library | Digital Collections
250+ Killer Digital Libraries and Archives
The Ten Thousand Year Blog
:::wood s lot:::

Why are we moving so fast? What is out there?

Instinct

...but you, who lie so still
as to be hardly alive,
can exact no less a sacrifice
than a mother's whole life...

Changxin Fang
Verse Daily

Leningrad Cowboys at youtube
via

wududu

stimmhorn

Bolivar Youth Orchestra delivers

He who invented hearts...

uh-oh

jars of...

The real Mean Monkey's got the labcoat on

Republican militiawoman, Barcelona, August 1936
Gerda Taro
ICP
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via TOP

Raveonettes at TSoAF
"Dead Sound" video at vice records

"These recording were made with the acoustic rather than the later electronic system. They were probably made in 1927 or 28. I have only my memory to rely on now. I obtained copies of these in 1959 and I recall being told that they were recorded in the late 1920s. Hearing them now the performances sound beautiful and steady, but when I heard them in the late 1950s for the first time, they seemed painfully loose and almost disorganized. I can also remember that when I first played these for the younger court musicians in the late 50's they thought the recordings had been made by some shrine musicians in some remote part of Japan. They were shocked and could not believe that the recordings were made by their own grandfathers even after I showed them the labels with the names of the musicians on it."

Japan Pre-World War II Recordings
Garfias UCI