http://www.commonplacejournal.org Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:46:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By special request - a post today for Chris of the underverse. He'll understand the oblique reference , I think. Video by legendary Soviet/perestroika band Aquarium. English translation courtesy of Anti-War Songs Train on Fire Colonel Vasin has come to the frontline And brought his young wife along Colonel Vasin has rallied his corps And ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2009/03/21/train-on-fire/ Thus queried my life partner, the Bicycle Repairman, this morning as I was unglueing my eyelids over my first cuppa. I guessed Douglas Adams*, wrongly. Actually it was Stephen Fry (Jeeves & Wooster, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, The Ode Less Travelled, &c &c.) Mr. Stephen Fry continues to obsess about ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2009/01/24/do-you-know-who-bought-the-2nd-macintosh-computer-sold-in-the-uk/ Do you identify with a distaste/fear about sentimentality? Do you agree that, past a certain line, such distaste can turn everything arch and sneering and too ironic? Or do you have your own set of abstract questions to drive yourself nuts with? -David Foster Wallace, (9/29/08 New Yorker) http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2009/01/17/sentimentality/ GIN, TELEVISION, AND COGNITIVE SURPLUS: A Talk by Clay Shirky Gin Lane and Beer Alley, 1750 Frank Gehry vs. Jane Jacobs: Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn Jane Jacobs Cocktail: Prosecco, elderflower liqueur, orange bitters, Hendrick’s gin Jane Jacobs 101 Jane Jacobs on Library Thing http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2009/01/17/gin-and-the-city-a-collage/ In re: Every Thing That is The Case by Chris Schoen at underverse The Way by William Bronk There is the world, we say, and mean a kind of mechanism, big machine that stands there mornings when we come on. We check the gauge and pull a lever we learned to pull, and wait, and stuff comes ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2009/01/06/the-way/ 8mm film clips from the '30's and 40's of the horses on my grandfather's farmstead in southern Minnesota. Grandpa was not a touchy-feely kind of guy so that last kiss on the nose says a lot. http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/10/04/saying-goodbye-to-the-last-horses/ I spent some time last week fighting off a hack attack on a client's Wordpress blog. The site was running an old version of wordpress, and basically what the hacker did was upload a new wp-config file to the uploads folder. This vulnerability allowed the hacker to post thousands of ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/09/14/zombie-blogs-from-hell/ I'm a sucker for them. electrical apocalypse by melissamaples H5N1 relapse by wishy Streetcleaner, Čečovje, Ravne na Koroškem (Slovenija) by r.marin more: Textures and Layers Group on Flickr one of my own recent efforts can be seen here. http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/08/15/textures-and-layers/ Ludo pastes his visions of nature mutating in self-defense on the walls and doorways of Paris: via PSFK http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/08/10/natures-revenge/ Conversation on the way to the first day of Celtic Music Camp up in the redwoods: "I wonder if the other kids have names for their instruments." "I wonder too. What's your harp named again?" "Jasper Moon." "Oh yeah, I forgot it's a boy." "Yes, but he's gay. " One of the biggest events in her ... http://www.commonplacejournal.org/2008/08/06/the-mysterious-life-of-young-girls/