Selfish people want the world to die with them

That is  to what I chalk up much of the complacency re: global warming.

In Williamsburg, heard Sinead

Was eating lunch in a Williamsburg sandwich shop called Pops and heard Sinead O'Connor's "Mandinka" playing.  Took me back 20 years, to the summer I lived in mom and dad's tiny apt at the Alexandria.  Editing there, that brief fling with Melissa that I had to end after one real night the next morning.  Getting an "arancini" rice ball across the street after getting caught in the rain...

No more a shambling bone tower

lucubrations

The somebody else

Will take care of it attitude among artists. I'm the reward and
incentive for others to make the world work.

Greedy books of the past

vision of fingers grabbing out from books in bookshelves in bookstore.  the greed of authors past trying to buttonhole you.  brought to mind the blake quote "eternity is in love with the productions of time"