Razor in Larilee's Bathtub

Ok, now I've done something as harrowing with Hart as almost losing Sevi at the Atlantic Antic parade.  Unforgivable negligence..

Weeds, the TV Show

Ok, so I've been hooked watching 2 seasons worth on DVD.  Only now I do see why, as the characters get stretched to suit the plot, I ultimately can't cozy about to TV.  Just an amusing rollercoaster ride; doesn't stay with you.

Braindead Megaphone

It's a great essay by George Saunders. The bit about the imagination
and war is uncannily similar to Wallace Stevens' "Prose Statement on
the Poetry of War". Either derived or just arrived at the same
conclusion.

help stop climate-wrecking in Bali

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Almost all countries have agreed to cut rich country carbon emissions by 2020--which scientists say is crucial to stop catastrophic global warming, and will also help bring China and the developing world onboard. But with just 24 hours left in the conference, the US and its close allies Canada and Japan have rejected any mention of such cuts.

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another thing i've needed to hear

that the creative process drives out fear

work of art as a living thing, just as much an organism as me or you

FINALLY I get some affirmation of this opinion I'd just about given up on! from Naomi Wolf's father in her book. The counter to so much that wears down and dispirits the beautiful. My crystalline anti-example in Aaron Sorkin, creator of the West Wing who's vocal about his characters being simple constructions that have no life off of the page. Realpolitik ,Kissinger, Iraq war death dealing, button pushing, mechanistic universe that has just about suffocated everything. Finally the antidote. I'd even sought it in grief. The sweetness that we resort to when a friend dies, all you can do is look to transform it, make it beautiful. the artist's project. though never proselytize it as such! remember, Wallace Stevens-- the poem must resist the intelligence ALMOST successfully. And of course his other guidance to me since I first read Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction 22 yrs ago - It Must Change, Be Abstract, Give Pleasure. So ringingly right that Stevens lives for me even in the contours of the land.. which brings me back full circle to the name of the project. man's intelligence is his soil. hence LOAM...

nostalgia for pasts not my own #1

so strong, such as that joni mitchell past, manhattan in the 70s upper east side, carefree, growing up, love and growth, young and with the opportunity to be smart and proud, people are well off but predatory enormous wealth has not encroached as it will in the next decades.

only too happy

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