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Monthly Archives: June 2010

John Vincent Moon

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Entonces comprendí que su cobardía era irreparable. Le rogué torpemente que se cuidara y me despedí. Me abochornaba ese hombre con miedo, como si yo fuera el cobarde, no Vincent Moon. Lo que hace un hombre es como si lo hicieran todos los hombres. Por eso no es injusto que una desobediencia en un jardín [...]

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Colombia – Medellín – Quebrada de Santa Elena

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Quebrada de Santa Elena – Medellín, Colombia from paulboccaccio on Vimeo.

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Redream Another’s Memory

Monday, June 28, 2010

… the Castelreynaldian fantastic does through indirection, unsettling symbol, or calm account of the impossible the very thing literature is meant to: lend voice to solitary experience or singular witness. How many of us, back from a foreign land, then face the difficulty of describing our time there? How often, over the breakfast table or [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-06-27

Sunday, June 27, 2010

@ken_schneyer another excellent use for skype: magically finding 300 words of fiction from one of your friends in a timecapsule chat alert. # listening to messiaen's l'ascension while watching the fog burn & reveal the mountains around medellín. # the drama lama says, "peace, son, you'll get an aneurysm." # oh human interaction, you are [...]

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And then went down to the ship

Monday, June 21, 2010

And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and We set up mast and sail on that swart ship, Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also Heavy with weeping, so winds from sternward Bore us out onward with bellying canvas, Circe’s this craft, the trim-coifed goddess. [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-06-20

Sunday, June 20, 2010

@elleeffect me too. it's brilliant so far, & a touch chaotic. in reply to elleeffect # the colombian rooster has a peculiar crow: something like a sack of ducks that someone has stepped on. # given the quality of internet connection here, if you want me to see something, you should @ reply me. i'm [...]

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Borges on Poetry and the Commonplace

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

[Robert Louis Stevenson] says that, in a sense, poetry is nearer to the common man, the man in the street. For the materials of poetry are words, and those words are, he says, the very dialect of life. Words are used for everyday humdrum purposes and are the material of the poet, even as sounds [...]

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Colombia – Medellín

Sunday, June 13, 2010

A view of Medellín from a house in the Robledo district in mid-morning. Robledo – Medellin, Colombia from paulboccaccio on Vimeo.

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-06-13

Sunday, June 13, 2010

"I cannot rest from travel: I will drink life to the lees" — tennyson # Have yelled the word "mortuus" at my brother, who is downstairs, for the past five minutes. #hobbies #jerk # Just explained furries to my dad. His response was crooning "i love you, you love me" like barney the dinosaur. # [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-06-06

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Walking around foggy northampton; fellow riding a bike in circles behind me singing "he's got the whole world in his hands." # Connecticut # Rhode island # "Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind / Cannot bear very much reality." — eliot # Massachusetts # Ate a jelly donut–powdered sugar explosion. now i look [...]

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