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May 17, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 5/17/13- postcards to influential strangers 2 and 3
Two more from my list of 15: 2. Jacques Cousteau: I found a postcard that someone had already written on. It was postmarked in 1976, when I was 7 years old, about the time I became aware of Messr. Cousteau and his boat, Calypso. Stamps were only 9 cents then, and grammar on stamps was … Continue reading »
May 16, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 5/16/13- postcards to influential strangers
San Francisco, California 5/16/13 Today I sat down and made a list of strangers to whom I owe a fragment of my creative self. It is through their trap doors, attics, belfries, squats, closets, crawlspaces, choruses, windows, vistas, wormholes, timeslips, floorboards, rumors, hijinks, trysts, pain, curiosity, and difficulties that I have been given breathtaking glimpses … Continue reading »
May 14, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 5/14/13- The Trail of Blood
5/14/13 San Francisco, California Last week on my way to work I noticed what looked like a trail of blood drops on Judah Street. I was distracted, playing Candy Crush Saga on my phone and also listening to a podcast. I walk every day the same 20 blocks to work, so I can basically do … Continue reading »
May 12, 2013
Nordpolen Journal: 5/12/13- Creativity and Pain
What is the Nordpolen Journal? 5/12/13 San Francisco, California There is a kind of stereotype of writers who suffer for their work. It’s romantic. It looks like a gaunt, bearded man in an unheated garret room eating stale bread crusts for dinner. Or it looks like a not particularly attractive woman sitting at a writing … Continue reading »
May 4, 2013
What is it, writer?
Everybody is a writer. On Saturdays, they are in cafes with their laptops. They’re waiting on your table at brunch, refilling your mimosas. At night they’re scribbling, scribbling, scribbling and waking up with a sore third eye and mistaking it for a common hangover. These writers work in offices, in the daytime sitting at a … Continue reading »
May 2, 2013
An Evening of Adventure with Chicken John, Tupelo Hassman, Joshua Mohr and Sarah Fran Wisby
An Evening of Adventure with Chicken John, Tupelo Hassman, Joshua Mohr and Sarah Fran Wisby PLEASE FEEL FREE TO INVITE YOUR FRIENDS Wednesday, May 22, 2013 7:00pm The Emerald Tablet 80 Fresno Street, San Francisco, California 94133 View Map · Get Directions Join us for an Evening of Adventure inspired by the creative process and the spirit of … Continue reading »
April 7, 2013
Debunking the “otherness” of nature: Companion Grasses by Brian Teare (Omnidawn, April 2013)
Are veins of blood so different from tributaries of rivers? Is the way grass in the wind might blow dark on one side, and flip to silver on the other so different from the way we might turn a dark thought in our heads to see the brighter aspect from another perspective? Briane Teare’s fifth … Continue reading »
April 3, 2013
This Just In: Spine-tingling Not Just for Goths
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response or ASMR: sometimes it feels good to have a name for something, even if the name is an acronym and a euphemism. Thanks to this week’s This American Life podcast, “Tribes” I found out that this odd sensation I have had since childhood is shared by OTHER PEOPLE. Yes, I really … Continue reading »
March 16, 2013
My travels with Huginn and Muninn
Today I am officially announcing that the title of my book in progress, formerly titled digital gothic: a spellbook for the new sorcerer, has been claimed by its rightful muses and will now be titled “Huginn & Muninn: a digital gothic.” I also want to tell you a strange little story about how this book … Continue reading »
March 4, 2013
Huginn and Muninn: a digital gothic (part 10- Muninn)
Part 10: Muninn. [Playlist: Rob Dougan, Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Mix] in place of a name kinder parents call her grief and teach the young to tolerate her perch upon the garbage bins best to pay her tithes at a safe distance and move on lest the details of her face prove catching but whispered … Continue reading »
