enough said... 4.30.03
great stuff going on today at wood s lot,
"Thanks!" to Mark for the excellent linkage re Richard Fariņa. and you can bet a lot of the folk here have great stuff too...
some Baldessari related linkage follows to make up
for old linkage gone wonky on that 7.30 dumbmonkey post: John Baldessari - READ/WRITE/THINK/DREAM;
RealPlayer required for this Read/Write/Think/Dream link;
the artnet link that went south is now here
& we not certain of much, let alone this, but we think this is the orig LA Times item. yessssss, we are aware of the plethora of wonky linkage on old dumbmonkeys,
we'll likely endeavor to repair/replace as many as possible sometime soon...
how about something nice for a change... 4.28.03 Maurice Cheeks, Guard, Lifetime Assists: 7392;
okay, now make that 7393, as of Friday night in Portland. apprx 6.5 megs, 1 min & 30 secs or so...
we tippin' da ol' red fez in admiration & say "way to go, Mo";
Next, of all places to come across such a story, we wish that many people saw it and paid attention,
but we're not getting our hopes up,
as ignorami will choose to remain ignorami...
this from last night on 60 Minutes, Halliburton, All in the Family,
along with link to Center for Public Integrity.
the theme around here for a
little while will be Less Is More...
we would like to think otherwise... 4.24.03
but there happens to be some evidence to the contrary;
heading down that slippery slope & gaining momentum: Devolution; Devolution; Devolution;
Devolution.
T.K. a cynic? 4.22.03
yah, well, we'd not be too surprised...
Ohhhhhhh, and by the way,
this from the Very Late Spring Ralph: His countenance had not a line upon it expressive of ambition or discontent;
the affectional emotions had not fretted at it. He went about like a priest of Buddha who expects to arrive soon at the summit of a life of contemplation.;
that from "Thoreau
The Buddhist"
note to "pla"... 4.15.03 You See?
somewhere out there You & ourowndarnself
are having a jolly good time & the presidunce is
likely sleeping off a hangover in the Austin drunktank...
oncet upon a time...
when l'Marquis was a much younger & naive soul, he was introduced to much of life in the city by the bay by his good friend Roberto F. and it was Bob & his sweetie that took the young Marquis under their wings and introduced him to great long gone places like the Keystone Corner and if memory serves, our first night there we heard the magnificent jazz bassist Ron Carter. This particular memory was inspired by story in the L.A. Times re the imminent closure of Pearl's. Oh, sure, there's still Yoshi's in Oak-town,
but the fact there will no longer be a club devoted to jazz in San Francisco, well, damn, something is definitely wrong with that picture, you know what l'Marquis means Binky?
related linky goodness inspired by our trip down memory lane: 1976 Captain Beefheart at Keystone poster; RetroMap of the Sixties; Jimmy Griego remembers...; another musician inspired at the Keystone;
oh, goshdarnitall, google it yourowndarnself... our good friend & one time roommate Roberto is long dead & gone now, miss you very much, amigo estimado, you made a big difference in this boy's life...
the name Bill Gates sometimes... 4.14.03
upsets folks, for any number of reasons, but ourowndamnself
came across this mention of Bill Gates Senior doing the right thing;
& now we'll direct thee to the NYRB,
where you can peruse Leviathan, by Jason Epstein,
& amongst all the other good stuff there,
this look at Karl Rove, The Enforcer, by Elizabeth Drew.
tryin' to imagine this day is something other...
than a Monday, something other than the day before tax deadline day,
oh, gosh, something other than another bleak-ass monday...
we'd made mention of the Presidential Candidates Forum on Saturday,
in case you were unable to view same at C-Span, here is linkage
provided via Democratic Underground from someone present at the affair.
the long gone but finally resurrected Lobo Loco entries... 4.13.03
of january & february '01 are now available (who cares!?) thanks to inspiration provided by the esteemed S.L. of Riley Dog & his mention there of an artist's exhibit of several works inspired by Balthus. If you look at the last entry of el Lobo Loco de Febrero '01, you'll come across some Balthus inspired linkage of our own. The astute amongst you will also notice our disgust with the presidunce in enero & febrero of that year, imagine how we must feel about him now... please be mindful we've not attended to every wonky link that's gone south
on those resurrected pages, snd "Thank You Very Kindly" for stopping by...
we've gone on about this in the recent past...
but l'Marquis again finds hisowndamnself compelled
to profess his unalloyed admiration of Ms Maureen Dowd;
& while we're here and at it,
"Here Here", Mr. Aaronovitch, well said...
a rainy saturday hereabouts... 4.12.03
which is great, as it suits our mood perfectly.
from the New Yorker, The Eighth Hundred Days: The Quiz,
also, by Hendrik Hertzberg, Cakewalk;
then Happy Anniversary to The Paris Review.
Something to consider, for those of us seeking an alternative, Howard Dean 2004 Call to Action links on that page lead to additional info re the Dean campaign
You can get a look at some of the contenders on Sunday, 9PM,
courtesy C-Span, via the Presidential Candidates Forum
held by the Children's Defense Fund, check your local times. & isn't it sort of shameful that in this very privileged nation we should have to create
organizations & institutions to protect & watch out for the welfare of children?
we know el residente is not catholic... 4.8.03
but for a man who believes that g-o-d is on his side,
he may want to consider executive clemency for these three gals in habits
so longtime pal Joe G. called last night...
after the game, catching up on the sturm & drang in
one another's lives, hearing about his son being 19
then feeling suddenly more ancient than moments earlier,
and (amongst other things) the name Chomsky came up. Funny that it is this friend Joe who introduced me to the ideas
of N. Chomsky years ago, the ones that established his reputation in linguistics, not the ones that have made him
the target for every small-minded, mealy-mouthed, slobbering, drivel spouting.... ahhh, forgive us, we getting carried away again. Ennyway, nice surprise to come across linkage to recent interview w/N.C., & a tip o'da ol'red fez inna direction of J's Footprints for the coincidentally timely heads up...
speaking for just yourstruly...
it's only the start of the day and
we've already got 4 reasons to be feeling blue: numero uno numero dos numero tres
y finalmente, numero cuatro;
now, the struggle is to stay on the j-o-b,
and stay focused (yahhh, right) and fight the impulse
to hie ourowndamnself outta here for medicinal remedies...
hello again... 4.7.03
oh dear...
first we have some good news,
then we have some of the other kind...
Hi!
by the way, full page ad in today's Chronicle
from the fine minds behind VoteToImpeach.org, late am update: yourstruly sits very close to the centrex operators for the Chronicle, and
oh man, are there a bunch of complainers calling about that
particular ad, 'Cancel My Subscription' some demand, others
the head of whomever allowed such a 'travesty' to appear...
whilst Macy's, not to be outdone,
has male model in RW&B undershorts on their backpage; Yow! Get that thing outta there!
& forgive us this morning as we
not exactly up to multitasking,
just not yet anyway...
some wonderful rainyness passing overnight... 4.4.03
and again locally, lovely & amazing skies above this morning...
offered to you to make up for paucity of poetic posts,
from Archipelago, Four Poems by Gu Cheng;
and the late spring Ralph is now available,
and from Ralph, Right Word...
t'was kinda like getting mugged... 4.3.03
but in a good way; seems that Stumpy Delko, Dante Oblomov, & lil' Stevie L. are in SF (alongside the missus) for a little recreational activity and contrary to some fears voiced by those few who knew of the momentous meeting, the San Andreas & Hayward faults did not cleave asunder beneath the enormous pressure induced by the presence of these mighty heavyweights of blogdom, not even when l'Marquis showed up. There was Cheeseboard pizza devoured hungrily at
rondevouz in the Berkeley Rose Garden, multiple servings of spicy bloody marys at the Red Jack tavern, many lies and tall tales exchanged during the traversing of territory from city to east bay and back again, inbetween rain showers and spectacularly cumulously cloudy skies, then dinner ravenously set upon at that cozy hole in the wall known as Tu Lan, boy oh boy did we have fun or what. Rumours abound that pictures might exist, their publication is a matter being dealt with by the respective agents &
legal staffs of l'Marquis & Stumpy Delko Industries, Inc. (also some small matter of downloading pics from substitute camera l'Marquis was forced to utilize since the bonehead left his in EPT on visit last week...) We all wish you all wuz here, but since you ain't, maybe some other time. Linkage? okay, for now some interesting numbers from
Democratic Underground,
Operation Iraq Invasion, By the Numbers
there's no frikkin' april fools about it...
that this is nothing but bad news, and ourowndamnself's willing to bet this might be happening where you live too. that's how they get to be so fuckin' powerful you know,
they keep you stupid, encourage your continual stupidity,
and that way it's so damn easy to pull your strings
becaue you've never learned to think critically...
& again, we seeking some brightness on a grim horizon,
BIG kudos to Craig Jensen, whose BookNotes is 3 years old & going stronger than ever, Bravo, Mr. J, Bravo!
oh ohhh! man, is Lori gonna be upset or wha?
Stumpy talks Stevie into acquiring new nice thing. yourstruly's turning various shades of chartreuse w/envy...
this last item's something lighthearted re the tournament;
oh yah, we nearly forgot (blame encroaching old age or
too much of that pause that refresheth...),
the Chronicle's Tom Meyer today alongside one from yesterday Damn! datz one smart fish!
the complicated & painful dilemma that became March
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