It rained almost all day yesterday. There were power lines
in the road in Brandon . I turned left in
Goshan – this is where an ancestor had
lived – No wonder the moved west – how can any one survive farming this – much better the prairies of
Iowa. Good decision dear ancestor - poor dirt farmer. I stopped and helped some
residents remove a tree from the road so we could get by. There was a long
enough period between storms for me to set up camp. Got to talking with Steven
a construction worker from Boston and then
it started raining again. We agreed the apoxytaleptic nature of our
civilization but differed as to whether aliens build the pyramids as a project
to process fuel for their spaceships.
Suicide terrorists are the ultimate
smart bomb – Robert Pape – Cutting the Fuse, 2010
One storm after another rolled in and collided with side of the mountain. I had nothing to do but
to go to bed early. It is supposed to clear off tomorrow. I wanted to let you
know that in case of an emergency I have a radio. Telephones are no good here.
Just in case you cut off a toe. Then he said that it was great to meet someone
shorter than him and we stood head to head and my eyes came to his hair line.
Well maybe not taller but not a lot shorter. He and Jake – after Jake had eaten
Traildog’s food continued their rounds – the loop around the campgrounds – on
foot.
Cell Phone etiquette – National League of Cotillions:
-
Do not take a call while someone has an
appointment with you – or – when you have guests – it is rude
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Never use a cellphone on a date. Turn off your
phone unless you are expecting an emergency call
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Don’t ignore someone waiting to provide service
to you in a restaurant or a retail establishment because you are using you cell
phone
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Screen calls and when in the presence of others
only answer emergency calls
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Move 10-15 feet away from others when making a
call
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Don’t wear an earpiece when not on the phone
The religious convention which marks shepherds as a symbol
of gentleness rest on their relation to sheep not men – E J Hobsbawm – Captain
Swing, 1968 p63
It rained again last night. Gee, it is too early to be
getting dark, I thought. There is not even enough light to read. It must be the
weather, I said to myself. The previous night had been pitch black. You
couldn’t even see the proverbially hand in front of your face. I don’t have a
watch. I have to get the key and go out to the truck and turn on the ignition.
Gee, almost 8 o’clock. Its much later than I had thought. Usually I have an
accurate sense of the time – often to within five minutes – without ever looking at
any timepiece. But this time I had been fooled.
Inside in
Outside out
Skin
To skin – to flay
About
My skin – preserve
Your skin – pleasure
Under
negotiation
Complex biochemical
Interactions
Orifices are pleasure
Surfaces
Inside outside
Inside out
Outside in
In and out
Cold waits / I am strong // Come to my room / the stove is
iron / I took the hot / dark from the earth / to wrap about you – Yvor Winters
– The Collected Poems of, 1978 p72
I caught myself dozing off, drifting across the highway lanes.
Luckily I was the only vehicle on the dark highway. I don’t feel sleepy. I had
pulled over at several points and tried to sleep, but could not. It is three AM
and I’ve been on the road since 7AM yesterday morning. I would have found a
motel but they were all full – refugees from the storm. Keep staring into the
dark. The lane markings are hypnotic. Look into the far reaches of the
headlights. Don’t look and the lane markings – click, click, click – they go
darting by. Suddenly you notice that your over the line. You have dozed off.
How long does it take to nod the head. Will the next time may be your last. There
is a faint glow to my left. I can see the crests of the mountains. You can
last. Hurry up sun. A sunny morning at last. I find a camp in Kentucky on Sunday. I still have three Peak Nut Brown Organics and a little
wine left. Try the Red River Gorge someone had told me.
Low touch high
Stress
Reach out and
Touch
Someone – give a
Friendly
hand to
A helping hand
A hand out
Something
in hand
Hand me down
Handle with care
Fragile
Hands on
Hands down
Hands up
Hands out
Hand in
Hand out
I met the Christ – we quarreled //
over sins in various seasons and the venial / pulchritude, and I consigned him
to the flame …I met God in the streetcar, but I could not / pray to him,
and we were both embarrassed – Yvor Winters – The Collected Poems of, 1978 p53
Only know down here in the upper south did I finally put my
finger on what I had not encountered in the dark conifer forests of the north –
it is the noise at night – the chirring of insects, the crocking of frogs, the
twirling of birds, the chatter of squirrels, the hooting of owls. Other than
the loons it had been quiet. It is very difficult to be cognize of the absence
of sensual data. You just are keen to the idea that things don’t seem right.
Then after several nights of chirring, chirping, tweeting, screeching and
chattering you don’t hear that either.
He changes the light bulbs at a run
down hotel. Then he’s offered an interview for the position as distribution
& marketing manager for a sport fishing equipment manufacturer in Cambridge,
Virginia. But the previous manager decides to return and resume his vacated
position. He is now employed at his school changing burnt out light bulbs in the
dorms and in the lecture halls. Today he has been told to only look for burnt
out bulbs in refrigerators. He has to do it surreptitiously while everyone is
asleep and as compensation for his intrusion on their privacy, he leaves two
cold beers in each refrigerator. What brand of beer was it? I don’t know, but
given his aesthetics, I know it was not a Bud Light. He also disposed of any empty or
half filled bottles, replacing them with a full one. He wears a tan camel hair
coat. It is the same jacket that he wore when he helped the old man get some
tar paper roofing shingles through airport security and helped the old man’s
grandson get them loaded on to the airplane. He had previously helped the pair
with a shipment of quilted down garments.
PGA Tour Pro’s chance of sinking a put
From 1 foot
away 100%
7.8 feet 50%
11 feet 34%
25 feet 10%
33 feet 6%
The moment what is distant becomes
near to me, it is what was near that assumes the power of what was distant,
that seems even more distant to me – Michel Butor – Inventory, 1968 p33
His boss Budd is talking to a coed.
She was asking if he would pose for some photographs for a calendar for her
dad’s fishing lure company which was the one located in Cambridge. Budd wasn’t
keen on the idea. She also said that there was an opening at the company
for a distribution and marketing manager. Budd said that he was an electrician
and would stick to that he was good at but he knew someone who might be interested in such a
job and that is when he recommended the young student changing refrigerator
light bulbs. She gave Budd her father’s phone number and told him to have the
student call him.
The applicant was asked to describe
the steps that he would take in recruiting a sales team. The student did not
have any marketing training, but he told
the owner about his extensive experience in business research. Any experience
in the sporting, the owner asked. No, the candidate replied, but he did have
experience in the leisure industry. It was not much but sufficient to get him
an invitation to fly down to Cambridge.
Red truck with
A ladder
On top
It is no fire
Engine
With men to man
The hoses
Work work until
The day
Is done
Fuck fuck until
Sleep
Comes on
Life goes on
And on
Wheels go round
And round
On the red truck
Life goes on
And on
Wheels go round
And round
On the red truck
She knew that her inheritance was passive obedience – Peacock – Nightmare Abbey, 1818 p21
The U.S. collects only 1.5% of GDP from corporate income
tax, down from 4% in the 1960s
Propping up power is, generally a less dodgy proposition
than defying it – Jill Lapore – The Whites of Their Eyes, 2010 p30
The boxes that feed cable signals and digital recording
capacities to home entertainment centers consume $3 billion in electricity per
year in the U.S. Two-thirds of this usage is while no-one is watching any
programs
Everything is in the credits. Now
that society has been definitively turned into an enterprise, everything is in
the synopsis of performance – Jean Baudrillard – America, 1988 p109
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