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How to Keep Your Pooch Happy
Answer: roll the car window down sometimes. (We do have a little nervousness about doing this, with reason; The Pooch gets so excited that she seems to lose her basic sense of or concern about where she is in 3D space. Which isn’t a prescription for keeping the windows rolled up — it’s a prescription for [...]
Everything Old Is New Again
[Image: "Extrange shoes," by user pepel at stock.xchng] From whiskey river: They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, “Who are you really, wanderer?” and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: “Maybe I’m a king.” (William Stafford) …and: The people in [...]
Bringing Worlds Out from Within
[Video: Lista (The List), a short film by Paweł Łyczkowski. It won the 2010 "Best Film" Suzanne Award, for users of the Blender open-source animation and visual-effects software.] From whiskey river: Lao Tzu exhorts us to listen to the world “not with ears but with mind, not with mind but with spirit.” Some days I [...]
Waking Up to the Unreal
[Image: promotional still from The Troll Hunter, a 2010 "mockumentary" from Norway about -- well, perhaps you can guess.] From whiskey river: Fairy tales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. [...]
The Garden, Neglected
[Video: scene from 12 Monkeys, in which the protagonists learn the true intentions of a shadowy revolutionary movement] From whiskey river: The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. “In return for this jasmine odor, I’d like all the odor of your roses.” “I have no roses; I have no [...]
A Love Story Between (vs. Within) Book Covers
Spike Jonze’s short film Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side): Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com. Read about it — and watch a brief making-of film — at Brain Pickings. (And I should probably add, “…of course.”)
Too Little Then, Too Much Now
[Video: introduction to The Present, a Kickstarter project to produce a clock which takes a whole year to complete a cycle. The clock will mark the passage of time by subtle changes in the background hue to which the clock's single hand -- a "season hand"? -- points.] From whiskey river’s commonplace book: Do you [...]
Walking Around Empty
[Image: still from Man Made Monster (1941).] From whiskey river: I don’t want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day. (Pablo Neruda, from “Walking Around” [source]) …and: You’ve heard “Don’t believe everything you [...]
Midweek Music Break: “Bad Moon Rising”
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic gets most of its airtime around Halloween, maybe for obvious reasons: its association with John Landis’s great 1981 horror film An American Werewolf in London. Interestingly, in the film the song doesn’t get played in its entirety. Instead, the soundtrack plays just a few lines from the opening — almost as [...]
Transparent, or Just Unseen? Silent, or Just Unheard?
[About the image: one of several models of "bubble buildings" available from French firm BubbleTree. I originally found this written up at the DesignSwan site.] From whiskey river: A Suite of Appearances / iv In another time, we will want to know how the earth looked Then, and were people the way we are now. [...]
