Author: shawn

Gross enough for you?

whelpish. woke up yawning out the door.
too many.
spices….

Take a gander at some of the looted (pillaged?) Iraqi national treasures.

The statue’s expression is, perhaps, appropriate.

It would have been so much nicer if they had just made a nice macrame copy and left the original.

“I think a monkey stole our sleep and we were laying there asleep but not really asleep.”

Alex Burns’ “The Worldflash of a Coming Future” analyzes the media climate before and after 9/11 amid such events as the wars in Iraq, Kosovo and Somalia in addition to 9/11 itself.

He discusses the “CNN Effect”, “Gateholder” and “Manufacturing Consent” models of media ecology. It’s a very thorough essay and seems very well-researched, even if it does seem to have high intellectual barriers to understanding.* (It would definitely help to have read all of the sources he cites; though I believe that he does an admirable job of encapsulating sources. The question: what is lost?)

*For example: What exactly does “neo-noir work culture” mean?

the bananas and shrimps will eat you all up, yum!

you will slip on the banana! the shrimp will burn your fingers!
oh boy oh boy.

(Thanks Antelopelovefan!)

otherwise the old skreeming. like a little creem in your milk? or some old bizarre. (i mean, bazaar) i’ve a mind to spearhead the unravelling rug, pin that loose thread down and fly around the world, ravelling as i unravel. (who’d go with me on my little odyssey? wrapping the world in yarn: yo, ariadne eat your heart out!)

it seems, that i’m even travelling in other dreams

way to go me! zoom zoom zoom!

but still there’s this rather gordian dilemma: namely how to separate the me that’s here from the me that might be anywhere.

inscrutable desires. and what about other kinds of travelling?

The value of creating a “whitelist” for email, as opposed to a blacklist. (In only 35 steps!)

The basic idea is that you create a system whereby, in order for someone to send you an email, you require them to send a confirmation that their listed email address is actually a valid one. (Many spam-emails are automatically generated and don’t have a valid reply-to address.)

(I found this via Scott Rosenberg’s Salon Blog. I don’t normally read Lockergnome, though maybe I should start.)

Galway Kinnell’s “Why Regret?” is beautiful. Read.

“deeply weird in a cynical, misanthropic kind of way”, eh?
hmmm.
fair nuff…
(the ides of march 14)

while visions of books circle in my head while dreaming, books go vanishing from my life. don’t leave books on window ledges. that’s my advice to you. how else to explain the (supernatural?) vanishing of my nightly read. a library book laid on the windowsill. but gone when i awoke this morning. doors, windows all latched. it wasn’t my library book either. how do i explain that?