September 2009
4 posts
Blood scrying
Gave them more blood this morning. I must be like suet for vampires, come’n get it! They collect it in special little vials and hopefully will predict good luck. We’ll see.
In the meantime it reminds me of The Red and the Black, Andrei Molodkin’s take on history and the classical sculpture that celebrates it, from the Russian Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale. In a room,...
The original cut-and-paste
At Dr. Johnson’s House in London a few weeks ago, was impressed by how the Dictionary was more like collage than writing. On the top floor, his “garret” (now restored, or at least, re-roofed, after taking a hit during the bombing in WWII), he had his 6 amanuenses, his scraps of paper, his tape and paste, and his vast insight. And oversight. They would block out a section of...
Virtual vampires, real teeth
Good experiences are worth suffering for! At least that’s what I told myself, as I proceeded to Not Cancel My Vacation. But I knew I was in for it, what with the autoimmune thing acting up and the pixel sickness bearing down. I mean I literally got dizzy looking at the fuselage, not to mention my working-sailor approach to travel: I don’t get on board without my liquor ration. Plus...
