"The Corps' lassitude and failure to fulfill its duties resulted in a catastrophic loss of human life and property in unprecedented proportions," Duval wrote. "The Corps' negligence resulted in the wasting of millions of dollars in flood protection measures and billions of dollars in congressional … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2009
RABBI HESCHEL
"Deeds set upon ideal goals, deeds performed not with careless ease and routine but in exertion and submission to their ends are stronger than the surprise and attack of caprice. Serving sacred goals may change mean motives. For such deeds are exacting. Whatever our motive may have been prior to the … [Read more...]
MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT: POST-MODERNISM CUBED
(notes toward the essay nobody's written yet...) As a ginormous crossover pop star, Michael Jackson embodied the era's cosmic mismatch of outsized talent and crashingly banal taste, the black Barbra Streisand. Tipped just a few degrees in the right direction and he could have been a colossus, a … [Read more...]
Dario Robleto Lion or Lamb, 2007-2008
WAYNE’S FULL NELSON
"As far as Harry was concerned, Victor Ramdass Singh was just another Nervous Camera director, who worked tirelessly to make the audience realize at every moment that the picture was indeed being directed." This passage appears in Don Carpenter's 1975 novel The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan. No … [Read more...]
CROP CIRCLE COP QUOTE
"A police officer contacted UFO experts after claiming he saw three aliens examining a freshly made crop circle in Wiltshire...." … [Read more...]
IYA 2009 Posters
Soundtrack: Donald Fagen's "IGY" … [Read more...]