March 7, 2011

enchanter encounter

P12 The Arcades Project, quelle surprise, I’ve already read you. Walter, we met before, nach bhfuil?

March 5, 2011

Specifically

Yesterday afternoon I went to hear Frank Cunningham talk about philosophies of cities or philosophy of a city or Urban Philosophy. Specifically, he related or regaled the following paper called

Cities: A Philosophical Inquiry

There were three things that occurred to me during the talk, specifically two of them I will tell you about later.

For now I’ll say it was  a very good way to spend a Four O’Clock. Therefore I’d recommend at 4pm you click the above link and either agree or disagree or beg to differ. Or.

March 2, 2011

Then blue, clear bright blue. Nothing in between.

March 2, 2011

Grim, still and foreboding outside.

March 2, 2011

Clarity

“…Mr. Knight was asked his reaction to the happy news about his memoir being named a “lost gem.”

‘God knows what that means,’  the 75-year-old writer said. ‘That’s the kind of puffery that booksellers put out.’…”

From here (including very daft and garbled headline)

March 1, 2011

On Guard!

 

“A Class 1 hurricane-strength windstorm is expected to slam into the entire B.C. coast Wednesday morning.

Environment Canada issued a severe weather alert Tuesday for the coast and immediate inland sections, including Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley”

CBC News

 

Mrsokana or Mrs Oskana as she’s occasionally renamed, your trusty literary weather forecaster, will obviously be in residence keeping an eye out and providing reports, gust par gust.

Hold onto your bonnets, boil the kettle & tie down anything that rattles…

February 28, 2011

Bataille, Breton &

I read this paper yesterday.

Yesterday was Sunday.

Yesterday it was snowing. I remember reading this paper and finding it engaging. These are the sum total of the details I recall. In my defence, I had a terrible headache all day Sunday.

I offer it you to make your own of it.

Breton, Bataille and Lacan’s Notion of “Transgressive” Sublimation

It may have been the disparate positions that the writer was trying to close on. (redolent of my own position on headaches and snow. They are incompatible)  Perhaps it reminded me of plumbing. It would be fun to have a raffle of possibilities as to why I enjoyed it and to simply pull one from the pile and stick to it.

February 27, 2011

Venus With Biceps

For women, men, muscular or otherwise, do not resist my review of a delightful book on the history of muscularity and women.

Lunge and flex with pride. Raise your tendons …

February 27, 2011

Today the imagination is not sufficient and an urban adventure is called for.

Trudge, trudge, trudge.

February 27, 2011

Statement of reassurance

I would like to reassure the world that when I design a hoover (*) it will not contain a weak pipe with a connector that snaps off like a crisp. (#).

(* vacuum cleaner)

(# potato chip, specifically salt and vinegar flavour and not stale)