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Friday, June 22, 2007

Library porn. Mmmmm...must wipe drool off keyboard.

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I would totally watch Komar and Melamid Go to White Castle.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Various things in my life seem better: I renewed my lease, with an insignificant increase in the rent. Yay for having a home! I like it here; all my things fit, with a little pushing and squeezing.

My cucumber plant appears to be two plants. A vibrant healthy plant and its diseased evil twin. Half the plant is perky and putting out tiny cukes. Half the plant looks like some kind of prop from Evil Dead.

My sister is somewhere on the Metro, heading into town. The house is clean. I bought a Swiffer thingy and now all my dust has been magically sucked away.

This weekend I am going to try to get in touch with my sleep.

I spend a lot of time on mp3 blogs, downloading stuff by people I've never heard of. It's good, this atomized process of musical selection. It is not much different than "regular" life -- you pick the people you trust, you follow up their suggestions, and you add and discard as required. A lot of bands seem heavily invested in sounding not only like something you've heard before, but which came from slightly before you were born. Instanostalgia. Canny marketing but probably ultimately not good for us, in the sense of opening us up to new and vibrant things. But I see this in design a lot, too, and it doesn't bother me there... The future is just the cannibalized past. I guess the difference is whether you're just repackaging the work of a few generations ago (lazy throwbacking) or if your intergenerational mashup really does flip things upside down -- something so old it's not just new, it's hypernew, supernew, too new to have a good word for (Picasso, Russian futurists).

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

My sister arrives tomorrow night! Huzzah! I have been cleaning and suchlike. I am tired, but my raw sodden mood is lifting. I have to do my first oral argument in court next week. I am less nervous than I would have supposed. Maybe I am growing up.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Sentence of the Week: This scary, hairy 5" foam rat is trapped in a 7" metal cage.

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Song of the week: Eldridge Rodriguez' "Stillborn in New Jersey." Available for download here.

UPDATE: here's the song.

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Summertime Ritual Watch: C'est Fin

Summer is full upon us. The last signs appeared this weekend. In bloom: honey locust (my favorite-sounding tree...sprinkle your poems with honey locust, and feel the southern gothic sensibility seeping round your bones like antique honey) and poofy pink silk tree, also known as mimosa. Heard the first cicadas singing to each other in rounds in the magnolias. At the market: Virginia blackberries and, oh my stars and whiskers, Silver Queen corn.

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Long story short: I am covered in vodka.

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Sunday, June 17, 2007

You'll only appreciate this if you watch House as religiously as I do.

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Psssst....A new chaplet type thingy is available over at Big Game Books.

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