Monthly Archive: June 2005

no ordinary brochure

I was in a library or a community center. A weekend program about Buddhism was in progress. I was very interested and wanted to choose a seminar to attend. I looked at a few...

meaningful plants

“The first gardens for example were not created to be work or even to produce food. They were experiments in making. Love affairs with certain meaningful plants such as hemp or grapes or tobacco.”...

el chupacabra

chupacabra I don’t go in for monsters or aliens, but I just love this word. I like it in Spanish and I like it in English (“goat sucker”). Also cool: ABE – Anomalous Biological...

everything is miscellaneous

A town name I ran across in my reading today: Wednesbury Phrase of the day: ashen sadhus (Mark Young) I could use the domain name gemtactixxx as an alias, a shadow site. I would...

max ernst

Visited the Max Ernst exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum. A paradox. I don’t like his art that much – echoes of Klee, Varo, Miro, Cornell, and other artists who sing those notes with clearer...