I am doing this holiday season as a bookseller behind the checkout counter at the Lloyd Center Barnes and Noble. I am seeing books go past that I never knew existed (perish the thought) but what is best is to see all these people of every imaginable age and typeset READING! And buying books for each other! Yes! It is a mob scene and a ( Read more... )

All of Tralfamadore rejoices at the return of their founder and favorite son

If the orthogonal model of the time continuum is correct, then your future really is just around the corner

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The kids have swapped out my cursor for an animated flying nun and I don't know how to change it back--this seems hand and ball in silver glove along with the winds of the day--I ventured first into the local Barnes and Noble for a more recent edition of Little, Big and felt outraged almost to the danger point of migraine to find not a single one ( Read more... )

On the excellent advice of rondrummond I spent last evening viewing "Spirit of the Beehive". After a distance of many years, the film is more haunting than ever. I will be days attempring to understand it all--the glass beehive that so horrified the friend of the patriarch seemed recreated within the very house they occupied--honeycombed shapes on the ( Read more... )

Both Transcendence and Transfiguration are in the aires and aethyrs tonight--certain harbingers of spring (like the collapsed and decayed blackbird that a local fiend has left in the doorway of the defunct coffeehouse down the block ( Read more... )

Hulse has reworked the 644 squares in John Dee's watchtowers and rectified the double/multiple letter squares down to one each, with eight of the squares transliterated to one English letter backwards. He has also revised the 19th call and postulates that the 21 character Enochian alphabet contains an unwritten 22nd letter (corresponding to the ( Read more... )

A sufi master walks into a shop and asks the proprietor ( Read more... )

Van Gough could see 28 shades of black
ref mansions of the moon.

read in ron drummond's journal that he visited a library in Texas with the handwritten ms of Little, BIG on lined yellow paper, the sense of fragility of it all--I remembered his name from Love&Sleep as an editor, also on Daemonomania. It would be fascinating to learn of his experiences in assisting such a great writer with his works in progress ( Read more... )