Das Martyrium des Markus

Digital Christ
Magische Abcontrafeyhung

Biceps Aquila

frauen am grabe

The Surrey
"...I saw them coming, huge butterflys and birds and sailing ships hovering ten feet off the ground. Phil, dressed in a Kaiser Wilhelm outfit, spiked helmet and high polished boots, led the way, marking the beat with a drum major's baton. Behind him the pranksters in their garish garbs pushed long bamboo poles in front of them, kites of all descriptions tied to the tips of the poles. Behind them came the bus, George at the wheel, pranksters hanging out the windows, perched on top; tootling whistles, banging drums, clanging bells.

Bringing up the rear was Kesey, in his red white and blue top hat, white vest covered with blue stars. Red and white striped pants tucked into cowboy boots. He was riding in a one person surrey, pulled by a brown and white cow..."

—Capn Skyp/Skypilotclub 10.16.03

Shelley Jackson on Tove Jansson

"... like a Gregor Samsa action figure (morphs into a giant beetle!) or a Waiting for Godot snow globe..."

"...the little dog Sorry-oo, who wants to run with the wolves, realizes they regard him as dinner, and being a pet suddenly doesn't look so bad..."

"When I realized Jansson wrote this the year her own mother died, all the hair on my arms stood up..."

"This is all the comfort we are offered, and it is a stern comfort, but a real one: What we love is taken away, and we may never get it back; but spring returns."

Shelley Jackson/LA Weekly 04.03-09.02
—
Shelley Jackson's Ineradicable Stain

foot-gadgetry

The Last Cricket in Ohio Sings a Song of Wilderness

"...Shivers in the trees, a stirring
of birds. The crickets chant

their names until..."


David Citino/Verse Daily 10.13.03

"...demonstrating that a happy slave is an extinct man!"
—Frederick Douglas

what the internet was like back in 1992.
ibiblio: the public's library and digital archive
—
Also at ibiblio:
McGuinn, since November '95.
8 years of the folk tradition online, as free as it came to him.

L'oiseau privé, dit Le couple et l'oiseau envolé
Louis-Léopold Boilly 1761—1845
detail
Louvre

Mystic River
"This movie is a historic achievement: Clint Eastwood, an icon of violence, has made us loathe violence as an obscenity. “Mystic River” hurts the way sad stories always hurt, but the craft and love with which it has been made transfigure pain into a moviegoer’s rapture."
—David Denby/New Yorker 10.12.03

Ω{an historic achievement}

A Hundred Won Dalmatians
Stewards and Leapers
Patricia Vigderman

Face
Bill Barminski

They Were Not
Alyson Souza

Robert Berman Gallery

damned

The American Skin

Something about how dirty it was. How forgotten everyone seemed.

Tyler Ondine

the art of david ho

more david ho

Opera No.2
Simonetta Martini

Ω{Typepad is selling itself for $60 a year; and it seems to have been born afflicted with that highly contagious albinism that's hit so many of the elect lately.
In my lonesome search for identity and community, I must confess, I surrendered a time or two to dreams of acceptance and the right to wear the light-skinned badge of the chosen.
Not that now I think there's anything intrinsically wrong with lots of white space and light green highlights.
I do, though, think it's long past time for the truly democratic potential of the online world to be defended, and the people walking away from the front lines of that defense as fast as they can should not be allowed to do so with impunity.
In this context technical sophistication is like intellectual prowess, and both in turn are like great wealth, an equivalent responsibility attends their reward.}

Milk and Honey

Dan Bellm/Poetry Daily 09. .03

Wednesday, May 14 1:31 a.m.
Two turgid grease drums leaked distilled bodily roilings of food animals into the alley behind a Plaza hotel. To that slickened scenario, add a doddering drunk name of John Doe whose wallet had been retained by a nearby bartender. The grease and drunk were absorbed by separate forces
—Arcata Police Log/Arcata Eye 06.09.03