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Monthly Archives: August 2010

Argentina – Buenos Aires – Teatro Florida

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Piazzolla Tango, a café dedicated to Astor Piazzolla in the restored Teatro Florida, keeps a wall of photographs, one of Piazzolla’s bandoneons, and one of his arrangements, framed, written in his own hand (with notes in marker). Ástor Piazzolla’s bandoneon – Buenos Aires, Argentina from paulboccaccio on Vimeo. Arrangement handwritten by Ástor Piazzolla – Buenos [...]

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The Pale Ease of Their Dreams

Monday, August 30, 2010

Noble in the sound which marks the pale ease of their dreams, they ride the bel canto of our time: the patient en- circlement of Narcissus & as he pines I too am wan with fever, have fears which set the vanished child above reproach. Cry as you will, take what you need, the night [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-08-29

Sunday, August 29, 2010

found teatro florida, one of the tango clubs at which astor piazzolla performed. one of his handwritten arrangements framed on the wall # two days stuck in mendoza with no money means 1) newfound public bench aversion, 2) i've now read ulysses twice. much better the second time # @tofermoran somewhat depressing to note, on [...]

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Aquacities of Thought and Language

Saturday, August 28, 2010

What reason did Stephen give for declining Bloom’s offer? That he was hydrophobe, hating partial contact by immersion or total by submersion in cold water, (his last bath having taken place in the month of October of the preceding year), disliking the aqueous substances of glass and crystal, distrusting aquacities of thought and language. What [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-08-22

Sunday, August 22, 2010

@mikejoosse me too, except i have no coworkers. in reply to mikejoosse # if you wash all the weasel adrenaline out of justin beiber, you get sigur ros: http://bit.ly/ayix8P via @boingboing # @mikejoosse the beard gives less than sufficient music recommendations, however. in reply to mikejoosse # @mikejoosse you should use holy water as aftershave [...]

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Strange Crawling Carpets of the Grass

Thursday, August 19, 2010

A Second Childhood —GK Chesterton When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not be too old To stare at everything; As I stared once at a nursery door Or a tall tree and a swing. Wherein God’s ponderous mercy hangs On all my sins [...]

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Zossima Instructs a Penitent

Monday, August 16, 2010

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid [...]

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Weekly Tweet Digest – 2010-08-15

Sunday, August 15, 2010

pregnant ladies are like transformers that contain other transformers. mammals in disguise. # phil collins and the cure #chileancoverbands #theirbassist #ohyouguys #terriblebassists #baldingplusgoatee # it's Homeless-Man, with a hypen. # If you forget it all, I will bring it with me. / If you can't find the sea, I will take you there. http://bit.ly/cWqhUI # [...]

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Close As My Brother Bernard

Thursday, August 12, 2010

For what it is worth: It now seems morally important to me to do without minor characters in a story. Any character who appears, however briefly, deserves to have his or her life story fully respected and told. —Kurt Vonnegut, in a letter to Mark Lindquist

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But Let’s Not Grade the Precipices

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

I knew a young lady of the last “romantic” generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high [...]

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