Watching: the first series of The Ren & Stimpy Show. C doesn’t get it. I’m not sure I get it myself anymore. What’s funny about watching the lungs of a badly-drawn psychotic chihuahua come out through his mouth ? I don’t know but I started laughing as I wrote that down. Ren & Stimpy’s enactment [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘fantasy’
November 4, 2009
bad move
Watching environmentalism wrong-foot itself to this degree is sad. Now they’re just rolling about on the floor with all the other “narratives”. When everything’s a clash of fantasies, nothing ever gets done. Will postmodernism ever end ? Probably not–too useful to the legal, political & religious professions. But on a more optimistic note, at least [...]
November 2, 2009
the booklover angle
My boredom benchmark for Euro-Lit mysteries in which the writing, translation, publishing, selling & curating of books is cleverly interwoven with philosophical puzzles, mild sex & Real History, is Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier, a novel in which almost nothing happens except book-chat, & of which Isabel Allende said, “A treat for the [...]
November 1, 2009
how mass can be relevant to you
Discoveries would include the God Particle, a tiny entity also called the Higgs Boson, which is believed to give objects – including people – their mass.
Don’t you just love the grammar of this, that wonderful “also called” ? Followed swiftly by the reminder that mass is important because “people” –ie, Observer readers like us–have it, [...]
October 27, 2009
feigned
Julian Richards passes FeynTube along. I’d welcome others. BukowskiTube would be nice. Also something that replaced comments with Audrey Hepburn’s dialogue from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (Coincidentally, I always think I’m going to see Feynman playing the bongos in the party scene of that film. He would fit right in.)
August 4, 2009
dog
If you liked Suzie Templeton’s Peter & the Wolf, you’ll love her grim early piece, Dog.
July 8, 2009
fantasyland
Three green woodpeckers feeding on the ground by the woodland near the station. On a wet morning or at twilight this is a ghostly enough place as it is. For a moment one of the little paths of opportunity that crisscross the common will seem to lengthen out in front of you into deep heath [...]
July 3, 2009
miller originals
Among the goodies at his bazaar of the bizarre, Ian Miller now has for sale some original pages from The Luck in the Head.
June 17, 2009
fantasy city
City as symbol of the self. Let’s not do this literalistically, item by item of possible correspondence. & let’s do it in at least a halfway contemporary way, acknowledging that a self is anyway, temporary, a snapshot of a passing state, less an item than an assembly of the relations between some other–constantly shifting–items. Like [...]
May 30, 2009
magic shoes
In conjunction with hills & naturally-derived vitamin D, Innov-8 Roclite 295s changed my life forever. But they come with a warning.
Despite being durable, stable & medium-cushioned, at 295 grams they’ll blow away in a strong wind. Check them out here; after that there are deals all over the net.
