listening in my car to a mix of songs that were important to me while I was in Louisiana, an old 1949 recording of john lee hooker comes on, scratchy and beautiful, before he got his ego (or at least before he let it show too much)(on record), and I'm hit by the scent of an old girlfriend, who took care of me after stumbling home sick as fuck from ( Read more... )

Spent Thanksgiving with Lindsey in Chapel Hill and Fair Bluff, North Carolina. Two very different places... One is rolling farms, big trucks (Lin's cousin Travis: "well the other day I got 14 miles per gallon") and really thick accents ("right" becomes "rot", "ten" becomes "tin". "pen" and "pin" are indistinguishable from one another). The other is ( Read more... )

Through no fault of her own, my awesome friend had to retract her awesome free-ride-to-North-Carolina-for-Thanksgiving offer only two days before it was supposed to happen. So its up to me and the trusty volvo on this one. I need two kinds of technical suggestions from you, loyal readers, and they are ( Read more... )

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Also:
Pat Robertson is supporting Guliani's bid for the presidency?

WTF?

I find this kind of ridiculous:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7084801.stm

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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/38555-interview-califone

I am, at the present moment, listening to califone while using the linux-laptop to cut lines out of the letters in my favorite font, Jenson. Finally making my deconstructed_jenson font, finally starting the anatomy-of-poetry project.