archives for October 2009

thank you for playing

Friday 16 October 2009 | 3 cookies in the jar

I apologize to the few of you out there who were still faithfully reading and got your hopes up (or had them dashed): This blog is officially done for—archived, no longer open for business, and pining for the fjords. There will very likely be another at some point, presumably labeled with a postgraduate Real Name™, [...]

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shut up and drive

Thursday 15 October 2009 | I like a cookie

we’re never going to make the light but it’s all right tonight you will be mine tonight the monkey dies “At the 2008 End of the Road festival in Dorset, Sparhawk abruptly ended the band’s performance by ripping the strings and lead [sic] out of his guitar, throwing it to the ground and then hurling [...]

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multiform

Thursday 15 October 2009 | 2 cookies in the jar

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore a risky and unfeeling act to send it out into the world. (Marcus Rothkowitz) Now where was I, before I so rudely interrupted myself? This is going to be harder than [...]

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game on

Tuesday 13 October 2009 | 3 cookies in the jar

Though more of each day is dark, though he’s awkward at the job, he squeezes paint from a tube. Hazard is back at work. (William Meredith)

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