Figure, Ground, Imagined, Real: Not So Very Different
From whiskey river: The Cutting-beam Imagine this blur of chill, white, gray, vague, sadness burned off. Imagine a landscape of dry clear sunlight, precise shadows, forms of pure color. Imagine two...
View ArticleBest Not to Wait
[Image above, "Don't Wait for Tomorrow" (original oil on board, 92cm x 122cm), by Nadeem Chughtai] From whiskey river: I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress...
View ArticleBooks Beyond Books
The whole e-books vs. traditional books debate spins crazily about one question: What is a book, anyhow? Let’s pursue that question a step further: What is a reader? Science-fiction (etc.) author Cory...
View ArticleIngredients of Revelation
From whiskey river: Shinto When misfortune confounds us in an instant we are saved by the humblest actions of memory or attention: the taste of fruit, the taste of water, that face returned to us in...
View ArticleCold. So Cold.
[Image: "ice-creeksicles," by Jeremy Hiebert. For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Winter Afternoon by the Lake Black trunks, black branches, and white...
View ArticleWhat Lies Beneath
[Image: lunar surface, color-enhanced, per results of the NASA GRAIL mission. For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): “My soul knows my...
View ArticleClumsy Delights, Deftly Managed
[Image: "Duck with Slinky- 1," by user SteveTaint at sxc.hu] From whiskey river: The Afterlife While you are preparing for sleep, brushing your teeth, or riffling through a magazine in bed, the dead...
View ArticlePotpourri, June 18th (2013 edition)
[Continuing in what seems to have become an annual June 18 tradition, of commenting about whatever the heck I want to...] [Video: Neil Gaiman signs 1200 copies of his newest novel, The Ocean at the End...
View ArticleThe Devil(s) You Don’t Know
[Image: "The Cadejos," hand-painted etching on paper, by Todd Freeman; found on Flickr. (Click to enlarge.) For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Everybody...
View ArticleWonder in the Interstices
[Image: “Le Bestiaire,” a mural painted by B. de Renty and Ph. de Lanouvelle (1996) on the side of a building on Rue de la Croix Nivert in Paris. (Click here to enlarge.) You can find other photos of...
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