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January 31, 2004

 

obligatory post talking about the new year

January is a walking coma. Everything slows and shuts down while the brain takes over, stitching together wounds, making lost connections, mustering enough preparation and enthusiasm to get the flesh around it up and at it yet again. After the...
Posted by xtop at 11:56 PM
 


January 29, 2004

 

vanishing act

Gray had openly talked before about killing himself by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry, which he rode often just to relax. On the day before he went missing, he had been observed by ferry staff placing his wallet on...
Posted by xtop at 11:39 AM
 


January 27, 2004

 

goodbye, d.c.

"The animal was close to death when someone found it beached on shore on Saturday... Because of the natural decomposing process, a lot of gases accumulated, and when the pressure buildup was too great, the whale's belly just exploded and...
Posted by xtop at 11:35 PM
 


January 23, 2004

 

england's finest citizen

Her favourite sayings were "F*** Hitler" and "F*** the Nazis". And even today, 39 years after the great man's death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with that unmistakable Churchillian inflection. Many an admiral or peer of...
Posted by xtop at 11:51 PM
 


January 15, 2004

 

hijacking alphaville

Alphaville could have become a socialist utopia, a grand experiment in free-market capitalism or simply a reflection of the allure and the pitfalls of any real Western city. As it was, Alphaville quickly turned into a hellhole of scam-artists, crime...
Posted by xtop at 11:41 PM
 


January 14, 2004

 

tv on the radio in the blog on the inertnet

dear builder/architect of creation, let me start by saying that i am completely moved by your unabashed use of irregular form.... the crooked sunsets, the stunted trees, human systems of belief... i feel like i am "IN " on your...
Posted by xtop at 11:52 PM
 


January 10, 2004

 

worshipping the tweed

The only newspaper clipping I've ever held on to. Recently re-excavated from my recently renovated deskspace....
Posted by xtop at 11:24 AM | Comments (2)
 


January 09, 2004

 

100 percent sloughing

By all accounts, Sarah Yeargain, shouldn't be alive. But she is and some are calling it a medical miracle. Three weeks ago, the skin on Yeargain's body began sloughing off. Dr. Daniel Lozano, from the UCSD Regional Burn Center, said,...
Posted by xtop at 01:32 AM
 


January 07, 2004

 

art is the voice of god and he is always speaking and he is never wrong

First Jim DeRogatis writes this review of Ryan Adams' show in Chicago. Then Adams calls DeRogatis' answering machine and leaves him this message, a tirade as deluded as it is sad. DeRogatis then posts it and Ryan Adams responds with...
Posted by xtop at 11:57 PM
 


 

vortis posters

Art by Johnny Los, Vortis by Vortis...
Posted by xtop at 11:42 PM | Comments (0)
 


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