January 2008
68 posts
“Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him...”
– Raymond Chandler
"To be or not to be," mused Hamlet, thinking of a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER’S HAMLET by Jonathan Vos Posta a short, short story; winner of Honorable Mention in the 1995 International Imitation Raymond Chandler Competition; approx. 500 words Something was rotten in Denmark, rank and gross, as rotten as a dame named Gertrude in bed with her husband’s killer while the caterer recycled the funeral baked meats for the wedding reception, at which...
“Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are...”
– Steve Martin
Daydream - Billy Strayhorn The Vanguard Jazz...
NPR Music: Stephin Merritt: Two Days, 'A Million... →
Stephin Merritt says he learned a crucial lesson from a group many musicians might sneer at. “I read an interview with ABBA a long time ago,” says Merritt, the creative force behind the cult-phenom band the Magnetic Fields. “They said they never write down the music — because they figure if they can’t remember it, then other people won’t remember it.” I really...
“I love to write in dark colors about gut feelings.”
– Stephen Sondheim
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
– Ian Fleming
Make mine a 007...the drinking man's (and woman's)... →
Jean told me they’ve announced “Quantum of Solace” as the title of the next Bond film. Interesting. To celebrate I offer this site… HPK
A Survival Guide for the Traveling Techie →
I found this while I was googling around about “The Drifters” by James Michener specifically about the Tech Rep character and the sign that he hangs on the door of each hotel room he stays at while working… WIll find the exact quote later… HPK
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online →
I think this would be dangerous to play with… Because I’ve always wanted something just like it. It really plays into my earliest imaginations about a “computer library”… The idea of having everything in one box - a plce to archive it all… Tempting to spend lots and lots of time cataloguing and listing and organizing and indexing and cross referencing - Boy...
The Secret Museum of Mankind →
This ad for The Secret Museum of Mankind appeared in the July, 1942 issue of Keen magazine; scan courtesy Cardhouse (thank you, Robot). Hyperbolic in the extreme, it’s even more lurid than the actual book. “1,000 REVEALING PHOTOS” is really 994, and “600 LARGE PAGES” is 564 normal-size pages. Wow! Sounds like a sideshow talker! HPK
“The creative impulse animates whatever instrument is placed at its disposal.”
– Robert Fripp
Stephen Sondheim on Sweeney Todd Movie - Stage &... →
“Stephen Sondheim talks to Edward Seckerson down the line from his home in New York. Sondheim discusses Tim Burton’s movie version of Sweeney Todd, which is on general release and has just won Golden Globes for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actor (Musical or Comedy).” Can I possibly be the only person who thinks that Musical and Comedy always needed to be seperate...
My sister, again...
The Jumblies. This reminded me of mom…..She loved the Owl and the Pussycat. Kimberly “The Jumblies” by Edward Lear, Public Domain. I They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea! And when the Sieve turned round and round, And every one cried,...
The Archive of Misheard Lyrics →
“the only domain named after the world’s most commonly misheard lyric (or is it? Click here for the full scoop on Hendrix and this “mishearance.”)” Common link, I know. But I’m in songwriting mode… Which means, cranky, impossible and havng a really nice time, thank you… HPK
In Tentative Deal, Directors Send Message - New... →
“The accord would appear to send a none-too-subtle message to striking screenwriters: This is not the time to get hung up on new media.” HPK
Portrait of Tracy - Jaco Pastorius HPK
In Praise of Melancholy - ChronicleReview.com →
“Why are most Americans so utterly willing to have an essential part of their hearts sliced away and discarded like so much waste? What are we to make of this American obsession with happiness, an obsession that could well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse, that could result in an extermination as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environmental crisis and...
NPR : Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect →
Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect In fact, a recent study by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer seems to challenge our basic assumptions about the relationship between the physical body and the mind — and perhaps even our assumptions about the nature of objective reality itself. It certainly challenges our assumptions about the limits of the placebo effect. She says that if you believe you...
Something Nice
i can’t say that i know too many people who find such interest in as disparate topics as electrocuted elephants, caffeine tatoos, and D.B. Cooper AND can write. love the blog. thanks for tipping me to it. see you soon,-g (Gavin Bellour)
John Donne The Bait
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks. There will the river whispering run Warm’d by thy eyes, more than the sun; And there the ‘enamour’d fish will stay, Begging themselves they may betray. When thou wilt swim in that live bath, Each fish, which every channel hath, Will...
Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to...
Come live with mee, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Vallies, groves, hills and fieldes, Woods, or steepie mountaine yeeldes. And wee will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Sheepheards feede theyr flocks, By shallow Rivers, to whose falls, Melodious byrds sing Madrigalls. And I will make thee beds of Roses, And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle,...
Anarchy Rules: The Dishes Stay Dirty - New York... →
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