Tyler Weaver's Blog, page 29
September 18, 2019
(Borges, 1935)
“Then he began to write something about charity; but what he wrote on the paper one day, he did not see the next; for this happens to every one there when he commits any thing to paper for the external man only, and not at the same time for the internal, this from compulsion and not from freedom; it is obliterated of itself.”
Jorge Luis Borges, “A Theologian in Death” (1935).
New Ink
Thrilled with the latest addition to my gallery of permanence: Jessica Whitmore’s superlative translation and transformation of Gary Gianni’s iteration of THE SHADOW (a panel from his collaboration with Michael Wm. Kaluta and Joel Goss, 1993’s THE SHADOW: IN THE COILS OF LEVIATHAN mini-series) from paper to skin.
The process, the ritual, of being tattooed – the decision, the sitting, the conversation, the feeling of needle to skin – is not only an opportunity for this particular recluse to...
September 17, 2019
Memory Cartridge: THE KARATE KID (NES)
“Master the Martial Arts!” (not so much)… more or less certain that I never made it to the second level and that what few accomplishments I managed to eke out in that first, side-scrolling nightmare were limited to a stream of failed efforts to capture flies with chopsticks and in plummeting backwards – with style – into a watery grave… a side challenge of karate-chopping wood and cinderblocks(?) also ended in repeated, abject failure; Miyagi as lifelong facial hair inspiration.
(Listening…...
September 16, 2019
AMERICAN CARNAGE, 242/678
Along with Singer and Brooking’s LIKEWAR and the Mueller Report, Tim Alberta’s AMERICAN CARNAGE is an essential component in understanding the roots and trajectory of our present madness. Learning anew that the only surprise in the Malignancy’s victory was that I was surprised by it at all.
(Complete reading list, 2012-present, lives here. )
(AMERICAN CARNAGE, 242/678)
Along with Singer and Brooking’s LIKEWAR and the Mueller Report, Tim Alberta’s AMERICAN CARNAGE is an essential component in understanding the roots and trajectory of our present madness. Learning anew that the only surprise in the Malignancy’s victory was that I was surprised by it at all.
(Reading) AMERICAN CARNAGE, 242/678
Along with Singer and Brooking’s LIKEWAR and the Mueller Report, Tim Alberta’s AMERICAN CARNAGE is an essential component in understanding the roots and trajectory of our present madness. Learning anew that the only surprise in the Malignancy’s victory was that I was surprised by it at all.
(Reading…) AMERICAN CARNAGE (242/678)
Along with Singer and Brooking’s LIKEWAR and the Mueller Report, essential reading to understand the roots and trajectory of our present madness; not quite halfway through Alberta’s tome and am learning anew that the only surprise in the Malignancy’s victory is that I was surprised by it at all.
