October 2011
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Colors Are Transmissions
“colors are transmissions”
you said
“transmissions from somewhere else”
you always crave transmissions
from somewhere else
shortwave radio broadcasts
rife with the chi of center earth
public access television
from deep in a rainforest
snippets of exotic musics
raining down
dust from the stars …
you sit tucked into a corner
your face pressed against a small window
...
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Hoosier Pete →
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Four Discs of Shortwave Mania? →
FUCK YEAH!
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Crimes →
Modern “detective” serial on line.
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To Eric
TO ERIC
You appeal often to Reason as if
She were as clear as arithmetic and
is your friend. But think: the cold you have now
is partial to that infinite sphere of
cold around us, the heat to that burn whose
instants consume worlds, whose light that lets us
see can blind. So would not your reason be
partial, too, mere flake off some thought so large
it is mad and could not be, in its...
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Black Kaspar - “Spectral (Halloween...
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The Debt is Yours
The events of this year - first the Arab Spring, and now the explosion of Occupy Wall Street - have been some of the most heartening events of my entire life.
One small quibble: the whole notion that debt is slavery. Not necessarily that debt isn’t slavery (actually, it’s more like indentured servitude), but it is a situation that the debtor has entered into voluntarily. Not that...
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Steve Jobs
I was a bit taken aback by the outpouring of grief for Steve Jobs … I had no idea that so many people would take the loss so personally. And I had no idea that he would be cheered as such a “great American”. I wonder if Bill Gates will engender such a deeply personal reaction when he passes?
Now, don’t get me wrong: if you are a great believer in American capitalism,...
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dadoodoflow asked: ISBN-13: 978-0816621613 I wish I could reply to comments. It's dense but worth it. Deals with the apprentice works-Bergson, Spinoza, Nietzsche. A question mark so tumblr bot doesn't boot this ask?
