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At The Corner

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:37:37 GMT

after a line from Jack Foster's
How To Get Ideas

source of mashed graphics

Three Kinds Of Pain

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:11 GMT

after a line by poet Ogden Nash

mashed graphics from cartoonist
Sidney Smith's The Gumps

Traveling Through Life Together

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:17:22 GMT

from an unknown cartoonist
via

The Bygone Days Of Class

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:48:16 GMT

J.D. Salinger on Publishing

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:21:39 GMT

Are there unseen stories and novels by the
recently deceased J. D. Salinger?

Will these be posthumously published?

Ponder this excerpt from Paul Alexander's
Salinger : A Biography (2000) and see what
you think.

"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing.
... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible
invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live
to write. But I write just for myself and my
own pleasure. ... I don't necessarily intend to
publish posthumously, but I do like to write
for myself. ... I pay for this kind of attitude.
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man.
But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself
and my work."

You've Been Imaged

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:09:07 GMT

quotation by Paul Virilio found in
Speaking Science Fiction

Court Attention at all Cost

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:22:52 GMT

Court Attention at all Cost

"Everything is judged by its appearance;
what is unseen counts for nothing.

Never let yourself get lost in the crowd
or buried in oblivion.

Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost.

Make yourself a magnet of attention by
appearing larger, more colorful, more
mysterious, than the bland and timid
masses."

~ Robert Greene

The above in an excerpt from Green's
The 48 Laws of Power (1998), a best seller
that examines:

- one's ability to influence others,
called "Personal Power", and

- those specific behaviors that lead to
the accrual or the loss of personal power.

Neighbors and Fences

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:55:32 GMT

after a Chinese Proverb found in
Proverbs Are the Best Policy

mashed graphics from cartoonist
Richard Taylor's The Mystery Men

Death and Relationship

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:37:10 GMT

quotation from Mitch Albom's
Tuesdays with Morrie

mashed graphics from cartoonist
Les Forgrave's Big Sister comic strip
via

Bob Dylan on Ricky Nelson

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:01:10 GMT

From Bob Dylan's autobiographical
Chronicles: Volume One:

"Ricky had a smooth touch, the way he crooned
in fast rhythm, the tonation of his voice. He was
different than the rest of the teen idols, had a
great guitarist who played like a cross between
a honky-tonk hero and a barn-dance fiddler.

Nelson had never been a bold innovator like the
early singers who sang like they were navigating
burning ships.

He didn't sing desperately, do a lot of damage,
and you'd never mistake him for a shaman. It
didn't feel like his endurance was ever being
tested to the utmost, but it didn't matter. He
sang his songs calm and steady like he was in
the middle of a storm, men hurling past him.
His voice was sort of mysterious and made you
fall into a certain mood....

Ricky's talent was very accessible to me. I
felt we had a lot in common. In a few years'
time he'd record some of my songs, make them
sound like they were his own, like he had written
them himself."

Ricky Nelson's Travelin' Man (1961)