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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Still Another Device

Thursday, July 29, 2010

There’s not too fine a distinction between humor and tragedy; even tragedy is in a way walking a tightrope between the ridiculous, between the bizarre and the terrible. Possibly the writer uses humor as a tool; he’s still trying to write about people, to write about man, about the human heart in some moving way, [...]

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To be a Strange Old Man Also

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

“I’ll kill him though,” he said. “In all his greatness and his glory.” Although it is unjust, he thought. But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures. “I told the boy I was a strange old man,” he said. “Now is when I must prove it.” The thousand [...]

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My Bus will be Pulled by Geese

Monday, July 26, 2010

Your destination is North. The map that you are using is a mirror. You are always pulling the bits out of your bare feet, the pieces of the map that broke off and fell on the ground as the Snow Queen flew overhead in her sleigh. Where you are, where you are coming from, it [...]

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Colombia – San Pedro – La Finca

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Three videos of the farm where I stayed outside of San Pedro, Colombia, north of Medellín. Gully in la Finca – San Pedro, Colombia from paulboccaccio on Vimeo. La Finca – San Pedro, Colombia from paulboccaccio on Vimeo. Cow in la Finca – San Pedro, Colombia from paulboccaccio on Vimeo.

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-07-25

Sunday, July 25, 2010

attended a classic colombian music concert in a bus terminal last night. the place was packed–people drinking & dancing on entrance ramps. # unfair things: watching tv in spanish & hearing nickleback as part of the soundtrack. i am now bleeding from the ears and nose. # intersection of david byrne and brian eno’s ”one [...]

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Faulkner on How Some Boys Do

Monday, July 19, 2010

No, there’s no record [that Chickasaws were known to be cannibals], but then who’s to say whether at some time one of them might not have tried what it tasted like? Quite often young boys will try things that they are horrified to remember later just to see what it was like, what the sensation [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-07-18

Sunday, July 18, 2010

@Keffy Eptesicus #playswithbatman in reply to Keffy # spent today talking to street kids about their lives & took medellín's metro/metrocable back up the hill. # oh hey moth in my drink. nice to see you there, in my drink. i like the part where you flew into my drink. that part was my favorite [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-07-11

Sunday, July 11, 2010

reading harlan ellison. in the background, a spanish reality show with a light jazz soundtrack. cue matter/antimatter reaction. # the neverending party across the street that usually plays accordion waltzes filtered through 90s pop has now switched to un-tss techno. # i want the parrot in the neighbor's garden & the bag of geese who [...]

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Snake’s-hands

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Path is like a snake, it curls around the whole of Little Belaire with its head in the middle and the tip of its tail by Buckle cord’s door, but only someone who knows Little Belaire can see where it runs. To someone else, it would seem to run off in all directions. So when [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-07-04

Sunday, July 4, 2010

yeah? yeah. yeah? yeah. http://bit.ly/9R2FNE # "Improving your writing is always a matter of changing your habits." — samuel r delany http://bit.ly/bH5yRF # @ken_schneyer such a good story. and i like that shakespeare is borges's ideal man. in reply to ken_schneyer # @Keffy i once saw a lady who tried to smoke while leaning on [...]

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