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The panhandler with the megaphone voice. ¶ The surfer who cannot walk. ¶ The carpenter who upgrades the surfer’s house to ADA reg. ¶ The albino parks and rec police officer. ¶ The obsessive cold-caller. ¶ The laundromat woman who remembers everything, watches everything.

The Hero's Image
Every protagonist represents only himself; in place of a change in the social setting he seeks simply in the revolutionary act the sublimation of his own image. —From Sans Soleil by Chris Marker

We talk about spooning
But why not forking?

2516: Sparrows and Patriotism
While two women talk about the World Cup, a sparrow lands in the square like a tumbling leaf to pick at a stale french fry stuck between cobblestones. “I just love America—I’m such a patriot though.” “I love America too.”

An Aside from Perec's Attempts
“Project: A classification of umbrellas according to their forms of functioning, their color, their material…” —Georges Perec, An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris

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These letters shape your thoughts.

Split Corrections
I don’t know what time it was when he arrived—he sort of rode in on the horse winds. The arrow of time says that the past has less entropy than the future. Noted the time leaving the subway station: 9:38. A horse carriage in the south lane jumped the gun. Entering the park: slower pace. Dogs. Tourists. Cyclists. They’re letting cars pass through today.

Block that Metaphor!
“… in The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart—a Yale-to-Oxford-to-Beltway wunderkind who flew too close to the sun of liberal-hawk glory while he edited the New Republic during the Iraq war—pirouettes to keep his wings from melting and lands safely, bringing us an essay in history that’s insightful, if also a little self-serving.” —Pride and Prejudice: The American way of making war—and repenting for it afterward, by Jim Sleeper

Painter of Light Arrested for Drunk Driving
From the Modesto Bee: “The arresting officer reported that Kinkade was ‘very polite’ during the exchange, Lehman said. … Kinkade, dubbed the ‘Painter of Light,’ is the most-collected artist of modern times and likely the best-selling in history. Millions of his paintings are displayed in homes across the nation.”

Phineas Gage
Railroad spike –> Head

Greater New York by the Numbers
The Awl’s Graham Beck reviews Greater New York at P.S.1. Instead of relying on his “critic instincts,” however, he creates a spreadsheet. Given the number of surveys and fairs, statistical analysis isn’t used nearly enough in today’s art criticism.

Mainstream Opinion Department
1) White House correspondent Helen Thomas resigns over comments she made about Israel and Palestine. 2) South Carolina state senator Jake Knotts calls gubernatorial hopeful and President Obama “ragheads.”

Sounds Underwater
The  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hosts a gallery of sounds recorded underwater. The short clips include the sounds whales, ships’ propellers, seismic events, and unidentified noises.

A Sudden Oxidation
Keystone. Keystone of entropy. Entropy. Entropy of construction. Construction. Construction of rubble. Rubble. Rubble of gloss. Gloss. Gloss of shit. Shit. Shit of the nobility. Nobility. Nobility of violence. Violence. Violence of the oppressed. Oppressed. Oppressed by the keystone.

Excerpt from The Captive, by Marcel Proust
“Perhaps at a time when distances by land had not yet been habitually shortened by speed as they are today, the whistle of a passing train two thousand yards away was endowed with that beauty which now and for some time to come will stir our emotions in the drone of an aeroplane six thousand feet up, at the thought that the distances traversed in this vertical journey are the same as those on the ground, and that in this other direction, where measurements appear different to us because the reach seemed impossible, an aeroplane at six thousand feet is no further away than a train at two thousand yards, is nearer even, the identical trajectory occurring in a purer medium, with no obstacle between the traveller and his starting point, just as on the sea or across the plains, in calm weather, the wake of a ship that is already far away or the breath of a single zephyr will furrow the ocean water or of corn.”

Finite Set
Multiple sculptures that share from the same set of objects cannot co-exist.

Voice Memos: Exterminate, Annihilate, Destroy and Three Species of Crab
Exterminate, Annihilate, Destroy Three Species of Crab

Sunsets in the City
In a brief article, Haden Planetarium’s Neil deGrasse Tyson points out the times of  year when the setting sun aligns perfectly with the New York City street grid, a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, aka Manhattan Solstice.

Pundit Uses Google Searches to Support Conspiracy Theories
“One of those pundits is Zaid Hamid, a fast-talking, right-wing television personality … He uses Google searches to support his theory that India, Israel and the United States — through their intelligence agencies and the company formerly known as Blackwater — are conspiring to destroy Pakistan.” —NY Times

Gear-Heads
The Camera Porn Flickr group, where gear-heads can share photos of their cameras, camera collections or of themselves using cameras, currently boasts 4,689 members and contains 24,600 items.