Just received a copy of Jean-Francois Lyotard's Pacific Wall in the mail. I had to track it down on the internet, as it's out-of-print. The late Jean-Francois was, as any fule kno, an eminent French philosopher of the Derrida/Deleuze generation. Happily tore off the wrapper, only to discover that this rather large format book has a colorful dust jacket adorned with vivid photographs naked female breasts. No title. no words, nothing but boobs. Who knew?
Only glad I didn't open it on the subway. I hardly dare look inside.
Full Version: The surrealism of everyday life
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Standing in front of me in the insanely long and slowly moving line at my polling place this morning: Annie Liebovitz.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Nov 2 2004, 11:22 AM) |
| Happily tore off the wrapper, only to discover that this rather large format book has a colorful dust jacket adorned with vivid photographs naked female breasts |
Got ya too excited to use prepositions, huh?
| QUOTE (Daisy @ Nov 2 2004, 11:25 AM) |
| Standing in front of me in the insanely long and slowly moving line at my polling place this morning: Annie Liebovitz. |
Heh. Ruth Reichl at mine.
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At last he has heard my siren call.
My husband, who is 43, whom I have known for just over 3.5 years, confessed to me that this will be the first time he has exercised his right to vote.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Nov 2 2004, 11:22 AM) |
| Only glad I didn't open it on the subway. I hardly dare look inside. |
Open with care.
| QUOTE (GG Mora @ Nov 2 2004, 11:45 AM) |
| My husband, who is 43, whom I have known for just over 3.5 years, confessed to me that this will be the first time he has exercised his right to vote. |
Exercise is good
Mens sana in corpore sano
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I just realised I had quite seriously planned the Lyotard volume as my next daily subway read. On closer examination, the dust-jacket is clear plastic and removeable, and the naughty pictures are printed on the cover itself. Back to the drawing board.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Nov 2 2004, 08:45 PM) |
| I just realised I had quite seriously planned the Lyotard volume as my next daily subway read. On closer examination, the dust-jacket is clear plastic and removeable, and the naughty pictures are printed on the cover itself. Back to the drawing board. |
Brown paper
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Good idea. Then it would match my bottle.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Nov 2 2004, 03:45 PM) |
| I just realised I had quite seriously planned the Lyotard volume as my next daily subway read. On closer examination, the dust-jacket is clear plastic and removeable, and the naughty pictures are printed on the cover itself. Back to the drawing board. |
did I mention that I wanted to catch up on my Lyotard?
Just for you, Wilfrid.
| QUOTE (Stone @ Nov 2 2004, 04:06 PM) | ||
did I mention that I wanted to catch up on my Lyotard? |
When skimming it the first time, I thought Wilf was planning to wear a leotard on his next subway ride.
| QUOTE (Daisy @ Nov 2 2004, 11:25 AM) |
| Standing in front of me in the insanely long and slowly moving line at my polling place this morning: Annie Liebovitz. |
Was her significant other with her?
If you mean Sontag, no. If you mean the nanny, yes. And an absolutely adorable little girl.
The other day:
Trying to get on to the freeway in bumper to bumper rush hour traffic. As I wait at the light watching the cars crawl up the ramp, one car pulls over, a guy gets out, walks back down to the freeway entrance, and standing in front of the graffiti encrusted road sign, takes out a spray can and starts going to work tagging the sign with HIS gang sign (V13) as oppossed to the 18th ST. insignia now covering it. He tags both top and bottom with great flourishes, calmly walks back to his car, and rejoins the crawl up the ramp.
Today:
Doing a coffee set up in a downtown building. I see a guy looking a little worse for wear right outside my door, so I thought I'd give some coffee. As I approach him with steaming cup, he turns around with crack pipe in mouth and exhales a huge hit in my face. And that's how I started my morning.
Trying to get on to the freeway in bumper to bumper rush hour traffic. As I wait at the light watching the cars crawl up the ramp, one car pulls over, a guy gets out, walks back down to the freeway entrance, and standing in front of the graffiti encrusted road sign, takes out a spray can and starts going to work tagging the sign with HIS gang sign (V13) as oppossed to the 18th ST. insignia now covering it. He tags both top and bottom with great flourishes, calmly walks back to his car, and rejoins the crawl up the ramp.
Today:
Doing a coffee set up in a downtown building. I see a guy looking a little worse for wear right outside my door, so I thought I'd give some coffee. As I approach him with steaming cup, he turns around with crack pipe in mouth and exhales a huge hit in my face. And that's how I started my morning.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Nov 2 2004, 01:15 PM) | ||
Was her significant other with her? |
What? Her camera?
I recently noticed that an empty space next to the bank in our "shopping plaza" was being improved in preparation for a new business. Stopped at the bank today. Noticed a sign in the window of the empty space: "Coming Soon: @ Furnishings, Accessories, Interior Decorating Services". A smaller, hand-written sign taped to the door: "Mistake Paint. $25/bucket. Inquire Inside".
Homeless guy asking people for money. He tries to hit me up for a couple of dollars.
I tell him no I don't have any, but he can have the loose change in my wallet.
I hand it to him, he looks at me and says "that's it? can't you write me a check?"
Between the coffee crack head and the freeway tagger, I feel like I've scored a hat trick.
I tell him no I don't have any, but he can have the loose change in my wallet.
I hand it to him, he looks at me and says "that's it? can't you write me a check?"
Between the coffee crack head and the freeway tagger, I feel like I've scored a hat trick.
Large sign on the scaffold covering a new high rise office and residence tower on Sixth Avenue (Ave. of the Americas for tourists):
NEW YORK'S MOST STRATEGIC ADDRESS, COMING FALL 2003.
Do you every think your address isn't strategic enough?
NEW YORK'S MOST STRATEGIC ADDRESS, COMING FALL 2003.
Do you every think your address isn't strategic enough?
Brilliant that.
Like my other favorite sign that makes me question myself on a daily basis:
-IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW-
located next to the freeway overpass.
Like my other favorite sign that makes me question myself on a daily basis:
-IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW-
located next to the freeway overpass.
So Ken Livingstone does still use the Tube after all - we brushed past each other, him getting off, me getting on at Earls Court yesterday.
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| QUOTE (Vanessa @ Nov 12 2004, 12:03 PM) |
| So Ken Livingstone does still use the Tube after all - we brushed past each other, him getting off, me getting on at Earls Court yesterday. v |
he uses it all the time. lives up the road from me. often see him with his child strapped to him on the tube.
I used to see him a lot on the Bakerloo line - but that was 20 years ago. That's sweet about the child though. Isn't there another one on the way?
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Someone from Miramax asked if we could get Pierce Brosnan a res at Spice Market last night. I called JG's office and we got him a table for 4 at 8 PM.
Then Miramax called back to say that Pierce had eaten too much caviar the night before
, and wouldn't be needing the table after all. I called JG's office to cancel it.
Then Miramax called again to say that Pierce had recuperated enough to go to the theater, and would like to dine at Spice Market afterwards. So I called JG's office again and booked him a table at 11 PM.
It's good to be the Bond.
Then Miramax called back to say that Pierce had eaten too much caviar the night before
, and wouldn't be needing the table after all. I called JG's office to cancel it.Then Miramax called again to say that Pierce had recuperated enough to go to the theater, and would like to dine at Spice Market afterwards. So I called JG's office again and booked him a table at 11 PM.
It's good to be the Bond.
Most likely a stupid question: why didn't Pierce's people call J-G's office directly?
I wondered about that myself. 
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Nov 12 2004, 09:00 AM) |
| Pierce had eaten too much caviar the night before , |
Oh, so that's what they call it now . . .
| QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ Nov 12 2004, 07:08 PM) | ||
Oh, so that's what they call it now . . . |
I guess they forgot to say what Pierce had washed it down with.
Hey, for all we know it was battered deep-fried sausages and the caviar story was just a cover.
| QUOTE (monkeymay @ Nov 5 2004, 02:09 AM) |
| Brilliant that. Like my other favorite sign that makes me question myself on a daily basis: -IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW- located next to the freeway overpass. |
Where do you live, Monkeymay? That sign was first used by Sam Lefrak at his Lefrak City in Queens about 40 years ago. And remember, wherever you go, there you are (Buckaroo Banzai).
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Nov 12 2004, 10:32 PM) |
| Hey, for all we know it was battered deep-fried sausages and the caviar story was just a cover. |
You're right. So declasse. (How does one add accents?)
| QUOTE (ranitidine @ Nov 12 2004, 10:34 PM) |
You're right. So declasse. (How does one add accents?) |
Depends on your computer, I believe. On this Mac, pressing the Option key and then E yields é.
Two giant-ass moose wandered down out of the woods this morning. Strolled right down the driveway and stood around in the yard long enough for me to snap a few pics. Then dropped down to the river and crossed and disappeared into the woods opposite.
I guess it would be more surreal if I lived in, say, suburban NJ, but still...they're mighty strange looking creatures.
Edited to add photo:
I guess it would be more surreal if I lived in, say, suburban NJ, but still...they're mighty strange looking creatures.
Edited to add photo:
I had lunch at the bar of a restaurant near my office.
A guy next to me started to give me a sob story about getting nailed for D.U.I. He went on and on about how we wasn't drunk, how he didn't have a problem with alcohol, how the cops were out to get him, etc. As he recounted his tale of woe, he downed four martinis.
A guy next to me started to give me a sob story about getting nailed for D.U.I. He went on and on about how we wasn't drunk, how he didn't have a problem with alcohol, how the cops were out to get him, etc. As he recounted his tale of woe, he downed four martinis.
| QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ Nov 15 2004, 03:11 PM) |
| I had lunch at the bar of a restaurant near my office. A guy next to me started to give me a sob story about getting nailed for D.U.I. He went on and on about how we wasn't drunk, how he didn't have a problem with alcohol, how the cops were out to get him, etc. As he recounted his tale of woe, he downed four martinis. |
Hopefully you gave him your business card before he stumbled out. Sounds like he'll need it, sooner rather than later...
I mean, the interpolated line scans perfectly, and it has a nice pararhyme, and it makes perfect sense, but why mess with a good poem?
Where is this, GG?
| QUOTE (Lippy @ Nov 15 2004, 05:21 PM) |
| Where is this, GG? |
South Londonderry, Vermont.
gg--I am jealous you got to see a moose. I am still waiting for my first one... a friend saw one while driving down I-89 near Exit 4 recently.
| QUOTE (nerissa @ Nov 15 2004, 09:29 PM) |
| gg--I am jealous you got to see a moose. I am still waiting for my first one... a friend saw one while driving down I-89 near Exit 4 recently. |
Ya know, it's funny how seeing your first moose is such a definitive moment in one's Vermont residency. They're really so pervasive, but you can't just go out and find one. I get such a charge out of tourists who ask "Where can we go to see a moose? We really want to see a moose..."
When you finally see one, it's like spotting a UFO. I saw my first off Route 100 up near Craftsbury about 12 years ago. Two of them, actually, standing in a field about a hundred yards off the road. I've seen scads since then, at much closer range, but never up close and personal like this. They're SO strange looking, all that hairy, humpy mass perched on top of four spindly little legs. That's what makes them so deadly for motorists. Imagine hitting one of them...the velocity of the car takes out their toothpick legs and 800 pounds of moose comes hurtling through the windshield. No thanks.
I saw a rafter of wild turkeys on a grassy hill when I was driving through southern Indiana a few weekends ago. They are impressive beasts. Alas, no photo.
| QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ Nov 16 2004, 10:01 AM) |
| I saw a rafter of wild turkeys on a grassy hill when I was driving through southern Indiana a few weekends ago. They are impressive beasts. Alas, no photo. |
Does this help?
Call it GG's Wild Kingdom.
Can you eat moose? I am thinking that a nice chunk of moose would make a good addition to Prejean's mixed grill:
Rocky Mountain Mixed Grill
A mesquite grilled elk chop with wild mushroom sauce, a blackened deer chop with sauce bernàise, and a buffalo tenderloin with brandy peppercorn cream, recommended medium rare, served with dirty rice and mesquite roasted asparagus.
Prejeans
Rocky Mountain Mixed Grill
A mesquite grilled elk chop with wild mushroom sauce, a blackened deer chop with sauce bernàise, and a buffalo tenderloin with brandy peppercorn cream, recommended medium rare, served with dirty rice and mesquite roasted asparagus.
Prejeans
A moose is an elk. But an elk isn't an elk. It's a wapiti. Next question?
The sole wild animal I saw during 2 weeks in Alaska was one moose, munching grass on the side of the road between Denali and Anchorage.
the fact that I get paid to look at things like this. I have just spent the last hour casting my judgement on pictures and video clips of topless ladies.
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