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CarrollBlog 7.28

Gathered in front of the two tattoo parlors on my street, almost every day I see different bunches of teenage girls fluttering and chirping about making the move to actually enter these establishments and find out what a tattoo or piercing costs, how much it hurts, etcetera. Invariably as I pass these girl gaggles, they always seem to be talking about the same things-- Should we? You go first. What if I don't like it later... What's interesting is members of a group almost always hang outside, h

CarrollBlog 7.27

I like those small stores in the middle of side street nowheres that sell obscure things like ceramic tile or bathroom fixtures. The kind of place you need maybe once or twice in your life. The best ones though are those that have colorful banners in the windows announcing things like "Big Sale ends in 3 days! Hurry because stocks are low!" I passed a store like that this morning that looked like no one had gone through the front door in five years. It was easy to imagine though the owner of the

CarrollBlog 7.23

You've got to see this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94Jh...

CarrollBlog 7.22

The Heart Under Your Heart

by Craig Arnold

Who gives his heart away too easily must have a heart

under his heart.

—James Richardson

The heart under your heart

is not the one you share

so readily so full of pleasantry

& tenderness

it is a single blackberry

at the heart of a bramble

or else some larger fruit

heavy the size of a fist

it is full of things

you have never shared with me

broken e

CarrollBlog 7.21

The evolution of today's baggy surf/swim trunks, as told by Greg Noll in THE ART OF THE SURFBOARD by Drew Kampion:

"So what happened at Manhattan Beach is someone like Barney Briggs or Velzy started going to the Salvation Army to buy their clothes, because you could get an overcoat or Army surplus stuff for 25 cents. Well they started buying white sailor pants and cutting them off above the knees and started surfing in them. And that caught on, and pretty soon everyone was doing it. At some poi

from KM:Air and light and time and space by Charles B...

from KM:

Air and light and time and space

by Charles Bukowski

"You know, I've either had a family, a job, something

has always been in the

way

but now

I've sold my house, I've found this

place, a large studio, you should see the space and

the light.

For the first time in my life I'm going to have a place and the time to

create."

No baby, if you're going to create

you're going to create whether you work

16 hours a day in a coal mine

or

you're going to create in a small room with 3 ch

CarrollBlog 7.19

When reading, there is something wonderfully preposterous about a line or a passage that says something like this: "with a start he registered what he had failed to before: that she was extraordinarily beautiful..." I don't care who you are, but for sure it is virtually impossible for the vast majority of humanity NOT to notice a very good looking person when you come into contact with them. Particularly when you have spent some time in their vicinity. Whether it's our genes, physical desire, th

CarrollBlog 7.18

Doesn't this look like something you want to see immediately?

http://tinyurl.com/lvnatn

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/the...

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"Many things are true at once."

RJ Cutler

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"I once read that the soul cannot fly as fast as an airplane. Therefore one always loses one's soul on an airplane journey, and arrives at one's destination in a soulless state."

Yoko Tawada

CarrollBlog 7.7

In a furious summer downpour, a woman is walking down the street with nothing to protect her--no umbrella, no hat, nuthin'. She's absolutely dripping drenched. The expression on her face shows how she feels about that. If you wanted a photograph of utter misery, take her picture. She's wearing a T-shirt that says LIVE, LOVE, AND LAUGH LAUGH LAUGH

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I'll be traveling for the next week. I'll check in here when possible if something interesting bites my eye.

CarrollBlog 7.6

from DL:

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave

with the intention of arriving safely

in an attractive and well preserved body,

but rather to skid in sideways,

chocolate in one hand,

body thoroughly used up,

totally worn out and screaming

"WOO HOO what a ride!"

-anonymous