Until now my entries of all the books I read have sat in the virtual future, but it looks like livejournal changed their timestamp functionality. If this is appearing in your feed, I'm sorry. Today I'm playing catch-up.

Back in New Orleans life is good. Some joker called the anarchist picnic for the same time and place as the Occupy New Orleans meeting, so all the anarchists showed up and the planning happened more or less on our terms--or on Ben's terms, since he was the only @ who had amy definite ideas. I was in favor of occupying Lee's Circle; it's a dramatic ( Read more... )

I'm in Memphis, going back to New Orleans this week. Four and a half months is too long to travel. At the same time, I've just reached a state I remember from years ago, of no more anxiety about where I am, what I'm doing, who I'm hanging out with, or whether I look alright. This has also been, since the Black Fly Ball in August, the first time in ( Read more... )

Cryptoforestry discusses Piero di Cosimo's "A Forest Fire" and quotes Vasari on di Cosimo; taking out of context a quote on di Cosimo's grief at his teacher's death, in order to portray di Cosimo as "a kind of renaissance Thoreau". I thought this part was more interesting:
"Piero, in his youth, being fanciful and extravagant in invention, was much ( Read more... )

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