When, in 1639, the Prague citizen Georg Baresch wrote to the famous Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher that he owned a mysterious book which was written in an unknown script and profusely illustrated with pictures of plants, stars and alchemical secrets,...
"It is the Codex Seraphinianus, perpetrated by Luigi Serafini in 1981 and since published in a number of different countries. I cannot say "translated into a number of different languages" since the text is written in a wholly imaginary language,...
excerpt from THE OULIPO COMPENDIUM: A notorious procedure invented by Jean Lescure that (in Queneau's terse definition) "consists in replacing each noun (N) with the seventh following it in a dictionary." Choose a text and a dictionary. Identify the nouns...
In one scene J-Lo, 33, tries to seduce Affleck, 30, by laying on a bed and telling him: “It’s turkey time!” When he asks: “What?”, she replies: “Come on, gobble, gobble”....
From Pitchfork. I'm honestly stunned dumb and much sadder than I thought I'd be over a dumb little band I liked: At approximately six in the morning yesterday, Matthew "Matt Lock" Fitzgerald, Adam "Baby" Cox, and Jeremy "Kid Killer" Gage...
Weekends are a wash. Spending the weekday struggling to go to bed at a reasonable time and get up with a slim enough window to get clean and get to work somehow warps my life ethic when it comes to...
Tomorrow: Sunday: 7.20.03: 9am CST (projected): Thoughtpeach 2.0 re-design unveiled. Gather your family before the warm glow of a radioactive cathode ray tube and revel in the excitement of the same old website wrapped in a whole new suit of...
what a gift certificate to amazon got me: Photobooth - Babbette Hines Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace - Gore Vidal Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists - Peter Straub (Editor) Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages – Manuel...
"Psychogeography is the study of the effects of geographical settings, consciously managed or not, acting directly on the mood and behaviour of the individual". Psychogeography research is carried through non-scientific methods such as the derive, aimless drifting through the city,...
From 1956's inaugural #1, "Memories are Made of This" to Whitney Houston's 1993 "I Will Always Love You." Covering a complete era of the 45, beginning with the dawn of the age of pop charts and ending when major labels...
Technically, this is a journalistic exercise--at least, that's what we keep telling ourselves. We're upholding our sacred trust as representatives of the Fourth Estate. Comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable. Pushing the reportorial envelope—by liberating the trash of Portland's top...
Now HBO was airing the Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton espionage movie, The Falcon and the Snowman. It was at 12:32 a.m. Sunday, April 27, that John R. MacDougall pushed the transmit button on his console and turned into...
Follow the exploits of anti-trade collective with access to near-perfect WTO website replica who get invited to lecture an international group of distinguished lawyers on the ideology of the World Trade Organization. Some things involved: double agents, pies, bacteria, bananas,...
California Department of Corrections Q: Can you explain the internal operations of the department without compromising the security of the institution? For example, how do you decide which ads need to be corrected? A: Every advertisement harbors latent criminal...
Old fashioned notions about art, science and spirituality being the peak achievements and the noblest goals of the spirit of man have been dashed on the crystalline shores of Acquisition; the holy pursuit of consumer goods. All old forms and...
In Almost Home, Arturo Herrera invites the viewer of his website project to become a player in an ersatz game that involves such fundamentals, albeit now couched in the vocabulary of childhood fantasy. The spectator is offered the option...
This is a weblogto the public. Anyone can register and start posting here. Find something cool on the net? Leave a link. Anyone who registers can comment on the blog items! This kicks ass. Trust me. What results,...
In my redesign, i seem to have buggered up my monthly archives. if you troll thru the individual ones (and god bless you if you do) everything comes up fine, but the monthlies have taken it on the chin. If...
Jonathan Lethem's forthcoming masterpiece (no, really) is being pushed by Random House as their big, important book of the high stakes fall season. With good reason. It somehow straddles youth and old age, nostalgia and disgust, punk and soul, comics...
two cops at the QuikTrip: "We had a shooting. Shot in the head. And the victim ran off, so we couldn't do anything." "The victim got shot in the head?" "Yup. Ran off."...
