Appropriability

If you are better (act better, speak better, trust better, love better, loyal better) unequivocally. There will be no question.

Risk vs. Coward

When you draw a punch, it is generally assumed you can take it.

Haiku # 515 : Endemic Species

I miss my old home/Seamless scrub oak and sea smells/Your new hopeful heart.

For Reals

“Ugly is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.”

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Ease of Use

Nowadays the best way to destroy a thing is make sure there is demand for it then put in place meaningless reforms and regulations to protect it. This will almost entirely ensure its annihilation from the face of the earth and with it democracy and sustainable progress.

Haiku #514: You Are One of the Bad Guys

Just a jezebel/Celibate against her will/Without connection

books

• "Democracy in America" - deTocqueville
• "Rainbow Stories" > William T. Vollman
• "The Great Race" Dorothy Shovine
• "Unfamiliar Fishes" - Sarah Vowell
• 1861 - Adam Goodheart
• Adjunct: An Undigest > Peter Manson
• America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction
• An Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge > Ambrose Bierce
• Best American Essays 1986
• Bowling Alone > Robert Putnam
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves - Adam Hochschild
• Candy Girl > Diablo Cody
• Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood's Merry Band of Pranksters, Fabulists, and Dreamers
• Child 44
• Dashiell Hammett
• Dirty White Boys > Stephen Hunter
• Dizzy: the Life and Times of John Birks Gill (Palisades/Westwood)
• Don't the Moon Look Lonesome? > Stanley Crouch
• Europe and Elsewhere
• Far From the Madding Crowd > Thomas Hardy
• Fierce Pajamas
• Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style > Alain Silver
• Girl's Guide to Rocking
• Last Exit to Brooklyn > Hubert Selby, Jr.
• Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds > Dawn B. Sova
• Lonesome Dove > Larry McMurtry
• Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
• Odd Girl Out
• On Beauty > Zadie Smith
• One Hundred Years of Solitude > Gabriel Garcia Mårquez
• Orientalism > Edward Said
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Random Family
• Reading the OED > Amman Shea
• Slow Man > J.M. Coetzee
• Special Effects: An Oral History > Harry N. Abrams (Westchester)
• The Corrections > Jonathan Franzen
• The Culture of Narcissism > Christopher Lasch
• The Debt, What America Owes to Blacks
• The Economics of Warfare > Cecil Pigou
• The Garden of Allah > Sheilah Graham
• The Great Crash of 1929 > Galbraith
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks > Rebecca Skloot
• The Lives of Great Composers > Harold Schonberg
• The Master > Colm Toibin
• The Name of the Rose > Umberto Eco
• The Odyssey > Homer
• The Pillars of the Earth > Ken Follett
• The Plot Against America > Philip Roth
• The Prophet > Khalil Gibron
• The Red Queen > Margaret Drabble
• The Sea > John Banville
• The War Against Cliché > Martin Amis
• To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild
• Typee > Herman Melville
• Vanishing Point > David Markson
• Walden > Thoreau
• Web of Debt > Ellen Hodgson Brown
• When the Body Says No
• Wiseguy > Nicholas Pileggi
• You Can't Say You Can't Play
• You'll Like This Film Because You're In It > Michel Gondry

movies/t.v.

• Abigail's Party
• Beaten Down In Beantown
• Bleak House
• Danton
• Deerhunter
• Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
• Get Low
• Gleaming the Cube
• Gun Crazy
• Minnie and Moskowitz
• Modern Romance
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Paradis Perdu > Abel Gance
• Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes
• Ruggles of Red Gap
• Sexy Beast
• The Conversation
• The Front > Martin Ritt
• The Funeral
• The Last Days of Disco
• The Last Mistress
• The Marx Brothers Collection
• The Return of Jezebel James
• The Wanderers
• Un Chien Andalou > Wong Kar Wai

Areas of Interest

• ABECEDA" Karel Teige
• "Complete Savages" "The New Show" "Not Necessarily the News"
• "Downright" Illustration Show
• "Eternal Summer" (Sonnet 18)
• "Learning to Curse: Essays on early modern culture"
• "Novelists on Novelists: an anthology"
• "Pale Fire"
• "the click of a well-made box"
• "The Goon Show"
• "The Graham Greene Film Reader"
• "The Revolution will be accessorized"
• "The Universal Baseball Association"
• "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way"
• 'Earth to America" "Up Your Giggy" Studio 360 "Cosmos, Spheres, Voyager"
• Allen Ginsburg > Howl
• Amy Homes
• Amy Jean Porter
• Anish Kapoor
• Apollinaire
• Ben Brown Fine Art
• Billy T. James
• Blueberry Divinity
• Book Mooch
• Charles Dickens > GRADGRIND
• Chris Ware
• Conservation International
• Croesus + Mammon
• Crumble. Crack. Burn. > Von Glitschka
• Daniel Barenboim
• David Foster Wallace
• David Leavitt "The Body of Jonah Boyd"
• deMan/Foucault
• Design Can Change, It's Green Thing, Heated Issue
• Dizzy Gillespie > "You Ain't Such A Much" (I Love Paris, 2008)
• Does it Offend You, Yeah? > You Have No Idea...
• Donald Barthelme's "The Balloon"
• Donne, Hopkins, Larkin, Puig, Cortazar
• Edward Said
• Ellipses
• Encounters at the End of the World
• Francisco Collado-Rodriguez
• Frank Darabont
• George Meyer as Formal Couple in I Heart Huckabees
• Ghost World - Clowes
• Gibson, Eurudice, Heidegger, Wittgenstein
• Gore Vidal
• Greek Mythology
• Harvard Lampoon
• Herzon + deMeuron, Tallix, Narciso Rodriguez
• Howells, Wharton, Updike, Oates > realism
• hypnagogic/hypnapompic
• Ian Frazier
• Islands
• Jay McInerney "The Good Life"
• Jean Rochefort
• Jim Crace
• Jim Flora
• John Bayley "The Power of Delight"
• Josephine Dolan
• Justin Ahrens
• Komedy Kool Kids
• Lee Evans
• Linda Hutcheon
• Lobochevsky, Riemann
• Lorrie Moore
• Loyd Sigmon [Sig Alert]
• Mackinac Island
• Mark Leyner "The Tetherballs of Bougainville"
• McLuhan
• metafiction
• Michael Paul Spikes
• Mike Reiss
• Moral Re-Armament
• Nabakov, Borges, Barth
• net ball
• Pagent of the Masters
• Pali Canon
• pedalo
• Peter Sellers
• Pigovian Tax
• post positive adjectives
• post-structuralism
• Ralph Steadman
• Raymond Chandler
• representing the "familiar" as unfamiliar
• Rhys Darby
• Rick Powers
• Robert Coover "A Child Again"
• Robert Pinsky, Barbara Morgan, Dick Gordon
• Robert Scholes
• Robert Sklar
• Roger Wilmut, Spike Milligan
• Roland Barthes
• Sam Simon
• samizat
• Satyidat Ray
• self-reflexive games
• Short Attention Span Theater
• Simon Wiesenthal, John Swartzwelder
• slow progress of technology
• Soylent Green
• Stephanie Mellarmé "A Tomb for Anatole"
• Steven Heller
• Susan Daitch "Storytown: stories"
• Taz Tagore
• The Jules Verne Adventure Film Festival
• The Shire New Zealand
• Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King
• Tuvalu
• Valentina Tereshka
• Vittorio Hösle " An essay on the nature of the comical"
• William Randolph Hearst
• Wyatt Earp
• Yuri Gagarin

Haiku # 513: Royal Blue

Met a stifled King/

One who has no emotion/

yet filled me with Dreams

Far Away Fayaway