Monthly Archives: March 2004
Found Poetry — Spam
This interesting piece of stream of consciousness is one reason I don’t delete quite all of my comment spam on sight. I took the title from the text. It makes some interesting found poetry. Beefjerky For The Price Of Freedom … Continue reading
A Boy and His Cat
I came across Leviathan in the Graphic novel section of Half-Price Books a week ago. I bought it pretty much sight unseen mainly because of the quality of the binding and the artistry of the illustration on the cover. Whatever … Continue reading
How I came to mention Turtles
Kurt asks: “Okay, I give up. What’s a turtle?” Well, Kurt, it’s a good-natured but rather silly drinking “club” which has a loosely organized lore and history going back to some pilots in WWII. Turtles are supposedly clean-minded individuals who … Continue reading
Seeing poetry
Life has no whence; it is carrying forth, and carrying forth again. Death has no whither; it is carrying away; and carrying away again. Ultimately how is it? If the mind does not differ, myriad things are one suchness. -Dôgen, … Continue reading
Monkey Literature
‘An Infinite Number of Monkeys’ After all the Shakespeare, the book of poems they type is the saddest in history. But before they can finish it, they have to wait for that Someone who is always looking to look away. … Continue reading
Turtle Talk
An exchange with a colleague at work toward the end of a long design review session reminded me of something that I haven’t asked any of you: “Hey, reader, are you a turtle?” You turtles are now duty bound to … Continue reading
IOU: A Good Entry
I guess Overflow is more or less on hiatus. Or more like a work slowdown. Mainly because I don’t have a damn thing to say. Or maybe it’s because I realize I never really did. Or maybe the river of … Continue reading
Expensive Silence
It may have cost us a small fortune, but it was worth it. When Heidi and I walked up to the hostess at the Tex-mex restaraunt we frequent, she asked us how many were in our party. “Two,” we said. … Continue reading
Neo Dada
Neo Dada is a gallery of mail art. I don’t know much about Dada, but it’s a nice page of cool art pics. You can send in your own postcards and, if they’re Dada anough, they’ll post ‘em. I’ve got … Continue reading
Spaces Between
I had a great find yesterday. I went to Half-Price Books looking for a particular thing and could not find it. (I should always remember that you rarely find a particular title you’re looking for a Half-Price. That place is … Continue reading
unspoken
I heard a joint by Ken Nordine on NPR yesterday afternoon. That made me think about my old CD of his and my other favorite spoken word CDs. Like the ones I have by Kevin Kling. (He has a new … Continue reading
Bad Cop, Good Cop
‘I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight’ I sought on earth a garden of delight, Or island altar to the Sea and Air, Where gentle music were accounted prayer, And reason, veiled, performed the happy rite. My sad youth … Continue reading
I haven’t seen it yet
I agree with this guy, who hasn’t seen it either for his own reasons. From what I’ve heard, Mr. Gibson has made violence and gore the stars of the show. Jesus’ actual message of love and forgiveness makes only a … Continue reading