slow preparation, fast execution: July 2003 Archives

July 31, 2003


	abandoned-places.com Posted by xtop at 01:24 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


	manteno state mental hospital Posted by xtop at 12:33 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

July 24, 2003


	the voynich manuscript 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,... Posted by xtop at 10:46 PM \| Comments (6) \| TrackBack


	Codex Seraphinianus "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,... Posted by xtop at 01:20 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


	N+7 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... Posted by xtop at 01:02 PM \| Comments (4) \| TrackBack


	uh... 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”.... Posted by xtop at 12:41 AM \| Comments (1) \| TrackBack

July 21, 2003


	Matt Dye Posted by xtop at 10:01 PM \| Comments (1) \| TrackBack


	death of potential 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... Posted by xtop at 05:15 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


	"the world's first political snuff cartoon" Posted by xtop at 09:51 AM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

July 20, 2003


	this was the week that was: 7.20.03 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... Posted by xtop at 09:31 AM \| Comments (7) \| TrackBack

July 19, 2003


	a memo from the bunker 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... Posted by xtop at 08:02 AM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


	bookglut: 7.18 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... Posted by xtop at 12:24 AM \| Comments (2) \| TrackBack

July 16, 2003


	psychogeography "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,... Posted by xtop at 12:10 AM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

July 13, 2003


	Chart Sweep pts 1 & 2 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... Posted by xtop at 05:43 PM \| Comments (3) \| TrackBack

July 12, 2003


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the politics of trash

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...

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	operation ugly aware print and apply... Posted by xtop at 02:51 AM \| Comments (3) \| TrackBack


	the story of captain midnight 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... Posted by xtop at 01:11 AM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

July 11, 2003


	The WTO speaks a little too honestly 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,... Posted by xtop at 05:22 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


	more billboard corrections 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... Posted by xtop at 04:11 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


	billboard liberation front 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... Posted by xtop at 03:58 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


	methane studios Posted by xtop at 03:24 PM \| Comments (1) \| TrackBack

July 10, 2003


	arturo herrera 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... Posted by xtop at 11:13 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


	the revolution will be super-sized Posted by xtop at 05:56 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

July 09, 2003


	we::blog 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,... Posted by xtop at 08:20 PM \| Comments (2) \| TrackBack

July 08, 2003


	charles burns' altoid ads ads disguised as comics // print & billboard ads... Posted by xtop at 04:08 PM \| Comments (3) \| TrackBack

July 07, 2003


	moveable type + xtop = nit 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... Posted by xtop at 05:41 PM \| Comments (11) \| TrackBack


	misprinted type your weakness is fear.... Posted by xtop at 05:15 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack

July 06, 2003


	the museum of anti-alcohol posters Posted by xtop at 11:06 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


	fortress of solitude 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... Posted by xtop at 04:35 PM \| Comments (0) \| TrackBack


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July 05, 2003


	first notable thing heard on my birthday 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."... Posted by xtop at 12:40 AM \| Comments (4) \| TrackBack

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