10.30.2012
ENDGAME: Draper Sells Kools and Pics With No Home
10.26.2012
10.22.2012
PICS: Trout Pond
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| with the water level of this pond very low, with a little playing around, has the fish showing up. Kind of cool, I thought. More below. |
10.19.2012
10.16.2012
BRG/TNL/500:14. Al Ferez
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Oliver.
14. Henny was different when I came back to the Dump. He was cool. By this time he'd spent half the money hiring PMC boys to sit at the tower and protect him. The tower boys would challenge me to wrestling matches sometimes, and David was the only one who could make it a minute with me. This kid liked to tangle assholes; he was tough. When I got back, David was waiting on me down here at the horse house. We walked one of our routes, and he told me things were going astray with Al Ferez, which was what we called Henny; in the drinking one night, one of the Spanish kids told us alférez was like an ensign, a flag carrier, which is exactly what Henny was: walking around with all these tough kids protecting him, waving the flag, part of the gang -- so, Al Ferez.
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10.15.2012
10.11.2012
BOOKS: Blood Meridian
Calling Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian dark is like calling the sun big or the Sistine Chapel cool. Published in 1985, this is the book that made Cormac McCarthy's reputation as a great writer, (it has been compared to Moby Dick and MacBeth); these days his reputation has never been higher what with the likes of the Coen Brothers and John Hillcoat making movies of No Country For Old Men and The Road, (while each is spare, desolate, violent, and beautiful, which is his style, neither approaches the depths of darkness where Blood Meridian is, nor it's quality). Blood Meridian feels more like an artifact than a scripted story by a modern author. It is one of three or four of my favorite books, but I would never recommend it to a friend -- recommending someone read Blood Meridian is like recommending someone join a templar cult, or recommend they bring someone back from the dead by appropriating a pet cemetery; it's revelatory power you're contracting, and will likely end badly.
10.06.2012
ON: Let's Save Sesame Street!
+ A world without Sesame Street is not a world I want to live in. If the unimaginable happens, and Mormon Sauron, err, 55 year old Jack Shephard, err, Mitt Romney, becomes president, we need a plan to keep Sesame Street around for many generations of children to come.
Here is my idea. It is time to merchandise Sesame Street characters. Perhaps if they sold something like an Elmo doll, the revenue generated could fund the budget of a television show.
10.04.2012
10.01.2012
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