10.29.2012

10.26.2012

10.25.2012

For Mary & Vincent

Design by William Morris, 1883.

10.24.2012

10.23.2012

10.22.2012

Canned


Theme end deep reject, take two.
We turned it off halfway through.

10.21.2012

Partnership
(or, Ms. Tooknap and I)

"I think the carrot infinitely more fascinating than the geranium. The carrot has mystery."

10.20.2012

What's happening in your book now?

For everyone, for absolutely everyone.

10.19.2012

10.13.2012

10.12.2012

10.11.2012

10.10.2012

10.09.2012

On Watching the Pilot for Revolution and Electing Not to Continue

It's not that I need my science fiction to be realistic.
I'd never object to a pizza shaped like Long Island.

Our salty old bitch Matthew's nowhere to be found--
That must be his sister manning the till.
Their skin's translucence gave it away.
Unearthly youth gone all ashen, doughy, drooped.

It's not that I object to a really editorial look, Windex clean in its vision. (Does

  Tracie Martyn have something in a Windex?)
I'd never shoo a low flush toilet, a witchy herbalist, or a fluffer.

Grind them all into the logarithm!

But regimental wrist brands and crossbows and an extended martial arts sequence
  
in which a lone guy once again defeats multitudes?
Oh, lord. Punctures (resembling those which might be caused by a mop handle)
Formed the main problem
With the Smithsonian folding screen, which was 
damaged through the canvas layers
And had been previously dismounted.
  >> She's gorgeous, but can she act?
    >> She's tres jolie, but...
      >> What now?
        >> Maybe J. J. Abrams is a hack who thinks he's Spielberg who is a hack.

Some dusty calculator wheezes back to life and I'm meant to go all aflutter?
I'd have clipped and sealed my vasa deferentia ages ago.



Note: The above includes a long quotation from The History, Technology, and Care of Folding Screens: Case Studies of the Conservation Treatment of Western and Oriental Screens by Dianne Lee van der Reyden.

10.06.2012

10.05.2012

we now return to our regularly scheduled programming already in progress.

10.04.2012

10.01.2012

on hiatus for a day or two.