SANDWICH TIME

This photo, of Alex Chilton and Paul Westerberg (the...

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:14:00 -0800

This photo, of Alex Chilton and Paul Westerberg (the Replacements), was snagged from The Lives They Lived, a Times Magazine feature celebrating the lives of knowns and lesser-knowns who died in 2010. Just on a visual level, the feature has a lot to recommend it: the photography is fantastic throughout, and I really dig the little black-and-white monograms they designed for each entry.

Jules de Balincourt, U.S. World Studies II, 2005

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:00:35 -0800

Jules de Balincourt, U.S. World Studies II, 2005

A 1200-page manuscript has the dimensions and heft of a cinder block

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:08:00 -0700

This past week I hand-delivered a massive block of writing from SF to Berkeley. It’s the sort...

Video Shows Squirrel Reacting to Death

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:14:00 -0700

My internship is rewarding and joyless by turns. Most workdays involve phoning publishers,...

". . . personal 'feelings' are deployed in a relentless citational environment such that they assume the quality of quotation, while the quotations move towards the condition of original speech."

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:06:08 -0800

". . . personal 'feelings' are deployed in a relentless citational environment such that they assume...

"Opinion divorced from demonstration is nearly useless, even when stated with vehemence. That is why..."

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:38:00 -0800

““Opinion divorced from demonstration is nearly useless, even when stated with...

Another Caryl Burtner collection (via Halsey Institute).

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:54:05 -0800

Another Caryl Burtner collection (via Halsey Institute).

The Exorcism of Page Thirteen “Caryl Burtner began this...

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:58:00 -0800

The Exorcism of Page Thirteen

“Caryl Burtner began this series in 1978, cutting the page number from page 13 of every book in her library and placing them 48-to-a-page.”

The obsessive nature of this artist book kinda blew me away. Really inspiring. Discovered on Artists’ Books Online, an amazing repository of artists’ books founded and directed by Johanna Drucker.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to John Hennessy, President of Stanford University.

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:21:00 -0800

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to John Hennessy, President of Stanford University.:...

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:40:00 -0800

Claude Lévi-Strauss

"This was not the speech we were expecting. It was intimate, it was about death."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:51:00 -0800

“This was not the speech we were expecting. It was intimate, it was about death.” - A...

"As to his talent, it’s clear there’s long been a thought around that ‘creative’ types are inclined..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:33:00 -0800

“As to his talent, it’s clear there’s long been a thought around that ‘creative’ types are...

"VONNEGUT … Twerp also had a very specific meaning, which few people know now. Through careless..."

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:27:00 -0700

“VONNEGUT … Twerp also had a very specific meaning, which few people know now. Through...

one, two, three

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:29:35 -0700

Test-flying this here tumblr.