Saturday, July 23, 2005

"...first I enter Bosnia from Serbia. Actually, where I enter at that moment is the Serb entity in Bosnia. My bus drives me to the Serb controlled suburbia of Sarajevo, where a take taxi to Muslim controlled Sarajevo downtown, entering the Muslim-Croat entity (fortunately, no checkpoints there). Then I switch my passports and take the bus from Sarajevo to Croatia."




94.

snailward and walking I flog · twinkling gambit trauma idols
damp inkhorn odors twill rasp · plankton skylight pinworms into
ogham wishful of cloud tomorrows · ignobly at

A wizard who no long*r both*rs.


95.

script occult cryptic I opt · starfish portal scab accruals
Dunkirk clutch stylish octopus · argot hybrid ipthoa
still giddy sculsh fishhook conform · spurn starkly asking

"Ipthoa" is to look at icons.


96.

snail angst fathoms I allot · bank sniffling sgraffito ashram
stow uffish matrix its churinga · rock amalgam Asgard
binary layaway fluids · allot aorta

Invisibly trod upon on my way in, two big snails: i abhor that crunchy dark footpath crossing.


97.

mulish cusp slowly I ostrich · thorny scrawl lungfish as spiral
is Plutonian pools twin · flagon Byzantium rigor
mortis asking atrium urns · lightning occupant

Blish’s Black 3ast*r. Origami. Vanilla latt*s.



F*minicidio.


3dmund Backhous* and sundry bookish frauds.


Post-zombification.


Friday, July 22, 2005


257 to 171.


Cyb*rMormons.


91.

barium malt transform I · munch amphibians immolating
rapacious flood story · still groundlings rampart ink island
affirm collusion prolonging · important disturb

Can’t talk about this. Nights without stars.


92.

solid conquistador glory · I adtopics Scully dock
insidious squid dusk mill · ash study talion addiction
coldly grip agony flying · formal grisly my

"Scully" is waiting for java though you forgot to turn your java apparatus on.


93.

taking rain skald I snort again · briskly gallon in unknown
Asgard skinflint cant global · idols wind island snack hollow
frown stink rapacious agathism · a with instant

That part of Sin City without fighting or killings.



"... the land is recoverable at first only through the imagination."


You will go to th* Moon.


Caldicott on DU.


Thursday, July 21, 2005


87.

wiki difficulty akin · I idolatry birdtalk
aftmost
offspring nights acting · out Pluto sticky dysthymic
patch skimp links instinctual riddling · pitch odorous words

"Tsathoggua" is Krypton is Carcosa pidgin.


88.

Ahriman ghost army I · am fancy input aghast church
torturing as strict
garb grins · impactful my Sith Malathion
Umbrist of rattling unknown · ichor byways lit

I must work hard to catch up from my days off. I am told that in a prior day any who had vacation would find aid with part of that work load. Not now.


89.

broiling trimmings so I slough · hiniku ingrown agaric
stony frown without imgrat · amok dilatory unborn
again
asking agitator · Vogons disarm us

Scaning Iraqi blogs as our A/C runs so cold i must don garb of cold days just to stay warm in July.


90.

Druid grisly pundits I · adorn uglily crutch winking
ash glottal dynamo spoor · rust instant adds risk starry is
ginkgo fathoms idiocy cold · grotto indigo

Storm at rush hour. Two hour blackout at Casa Rosada. Plankton dying. Pic still hanging wrong.
   On my victrola- Jorg*n Ingmann: Apach*.




Vi*tNashvill*.


"Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the word, reveal it to be, with its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will appear one day in the messianic light."


Wednesday, July 20, 2005


83.

horizon foundling arroyo I · azurn rot unorthodox
of voyaging fungus
· incoming idyll Pluto tilt
snub agronomist paradigm · grisly crisp poison

Cassandra was mad, not out of knowing what would occur, but for lack of anybody to impart it to.


84.

vanity may intact I · storm ryotwar smirking rasp
by Biblical antacids · stirrup fact scour stunt nights ash stir
loyalty brink ambush argon · cyborg forlorn stool

103 at 3:30. Why am i driving in this, and why is traffic moving so slowly? Two windows won’t go down, no A/C. Burning up as i crawl along.


85.

occiput scarly actors · I spawn burying stain ascian
accruals warp groan flashback · python latifundia scoot
strong forlorn argot is vicious · astray spiral ramp

Cold air in a dark room. An LP plays.


86.

folio nocturnal slag · I bomb sniffing dog scoop story
cult grip unavailing · rapacious slab Tsathoggua glut
walking again might obtain moult · ammo abundant

Magicians all going mad at last, but along that way finding actual magic.
   Pollution crimson.




On my victrola- T*nn*ss** 3rni* Ford: "L*t It B*".


R*n* Alb*rt Chal*t. (via B*yond th* B*yond)


Counting victims.


Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Robotwisdom Poll.

  'One pillar holding up consolations,
another pillar,
a duplicate pillar, pillarous
and like the grandchild of a dark door.
Lost noise, the one, listening, at the edge of fatigue;
drinking, the other, two by two with handles.

  Don't I perhaps know the year of this day,
the hatred of this love, the planks of this forehead?
Don't I know that this afternoon costs days?
Don't I know that never does one say "never," on one's knees?

  The pillars that I saw are listening to me;
other pillars are, twos and sad grandchildren of my leg.
I say it in American copper
which owes to silver so much fire!

  Consoled by third marriages,
pallid, born,
I am going to close my baptismal font, this showcase,
this fright with tits,
this finger in deathrow,
heartly tied to my skeleton.'

--3shl*man's Vall*jo



"Helsem is a talented Dallas poet with a carefully cultivated eccentricity. He wore a black long coat and a bright red fez..."


10% of our brains.


Labyrinthwalk.


Monday, July 18, 2005


79.

variorum cardinal · grisly I downhill drawn gulag
smog
scram fascist drip adrift · violation indigo ganch
aloof
agamist frigid nights · as glasnost my gist

Wishbon* Ash- "Sorr*l".


80.

taqiya jangly squamous · I my path ajaja yapping
anchoritic agora · gloss cyborg ash squirt hubris rack
smooth voyaging sunlight is filch · smooth cyborg sport can

A myth of monstrous humans. Humans do monstrous things, but out of a human causality. Wishing to run away from causality. A monstrous instinct.


81.

purity fulcrum frisk I · stiffly my affix fulgurous
Olofi scrubs grisly ruck · smooth of crumbs victory is skidmark
nights ask strictly rips affront of · slow byblow smarting

Stomach hurts.


82.

spoils optional poison I · slag Tsathoggua bounds spool
attack rim cotton snag campaign · album spirits loam withal
assign toll snap tilt Istanbul · slowly warp Ogpu

Amidst slooming a vision of rain. Or did it actually? Barry Goldwat*r on saffron vinyl.



"The Oulipo is a gang of cynical formalists. They claim to be materialist, but they utterly disregard the dialectic of history."


"...the scandalbag cartel of nights...".


Tatooin*.


"Just as the heart beats in the darkness of the body, so I, despite this cage, continue to beat with life." (via Robot Wisdom)


Sunday, July 17, 2005


    "R is for Rutabaga"

cicada nights Scully raps
oddly ranch insight

fighting against thorny atavists
as ask scams

hubris fly Olofi my brandish handcuffs
spoon usually borscht

idiot adrift glow by grasp farm
and scuttling shadows kinky



"The authority of poetry is the authority of a mask."


"Actually, there are two names: Neen and Telic."


Saturday, July 16, 2005


    "The truth about chiggers

Since so many people I run into tell me terrible tales of chigger bites, I
thought I'd share the truth about chiggers.

Chiggers are the larvae of the harvest mite. They do not burrow into your
body.
They pierce the skin and inject a fluid that liquifies your tissues. Then they
suck you up! They might do this several times before dropping off your
body. By
the time you feel the itch, the chigger is long gone.

The place that was liquified begins to go through necrosis, or death. Death is
itchy business, causing lots of histamine to be released.


<> <> <> What Not To Do <> <> <>

Never ever ever apply nail polish to a chigger bite. All that does is place
benzene, a component of most nail polishes, directly into your bloodstream.
Since benzene is a carcinogen, that's not a good idea. Nail polish, like most
chigger remedies, is a counter irritant. It simply takes your attention away
from the itch. Many are rough on the skin, causing the bite to linger.


<> <> <> What To Do <> <> <>

Anti-itch potions with antihistamines like Benadryl work best. But the most
definitive way to make the itch go away is to heal the skin from the necrosis.
Nuture your bites with calamine lotion (clay is soothing), aloe vera or skin
creams with healing substances like comfrey. Sulfur also makes chigger bites
feel better.


<> <> <> How to Prevent Chigger Bites <> <> <>

Chiggers hate sulfur. So before heading out into nature, dust yourself
thoroughly, very thoroughly, with sulfur powder. Focus on your feet,
lower legs
and waistband. Dusting sulfur is sold in most garden stores. The easy way to
apply it is to pour some in an old sock and whap yourself with it. But most
conventional and natural insect repellents will deter chiggers -- if they are
applied very thickly and reapplied often (unless is contains DEET, which
should
only be applied once every 8 hours).

Chiggers like thick weeds in shady areas with plenty of moisture. So
creekbottoms are chigger breeding factories. Avoid them or move through them
quickly.

It takes a few hours for chiggers to get around to biting you. Take a
full-body
shower (if you can) right after a hike, or wipe yourself down thoroughly.
Focus
on areas where the skin is folded, like armpits and crotches, or where your
clothes bind firmly, like waistbands and around shoes. Sulfur soap is
best. Also
wash your clothes and brush off your shoes vigorously."

(via JR)



76.

squiggly aquarium sumph · I again aggravatingly
cloud Lysol fashion squamous · ruck hangovary brook pillbug
gulag imam us cusp ambush · spurious ghostly

How "Poss*ss*d" starts, & "Humor*squ*" finds its finish. What to put in that gap? An art of joining good parts of old films.What continuity?


77.

radint wars adorn I input · stony twinkling bard crook is
gallop idolatry loud · frosty oncoming fist wish ink
upcoming outgoing stag asp · atomic rotkohl

Nothing but cops and criminals, from now on out. --Bards choosing too.


78.

pacific sandstorm scuttling · I afford circumlocutions
scrawny rsta gallium · insight adducing Osiris
straw torturing crystal impact · as scant pulpit stay

TV loud to drown out booms. And TVs blowing up.



"We have no idea what visual poetry will become, and we know exactly what it will become."


"..."In 50 years, this has never happened," said Bill Peterson, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Newport, Ore. "If this continues, we will have a food chain that is basically impoverished from the very lowest levels." " (via M*tafilt*r)


Friday, July 15, 2005


"Forgive the savage texture of the spoil
Tinted so barbarously by the clay
The rusty iron and the ocean-spray
Which lifted up my body from the soil.
Forgive the complicated brittle coil
Of my infirm invention, which I lay
Where you may pause, and pass, and never stay.
Here are the shocks of maize, the honey and oil,

The fruits like harvest moons, the fabulous land,
The crystal hills, the veiled prismatic plain;
And you will come, and you will not remain,
Nor leave a trace along the gilded sand.
So presently you will be come and gone;
Here’s a strange road for you to walk upon."

--3linor Wyli*, Trivial Br*ath (1928)



"Flaarrrf. I'mmmm wanna read ... my flarrrfff ..."


A Family in Baghdad.


Thank Raygun. (via R*b*cca Blood)


Thursday, July 14, 2005

alas
(via Imp*rialclub dot com)


73.

radio paralysis · idiosyncratic bildar
Mothra spiral path crystal · sandstorm Alpha typical ash
nights asphault birdtalk Odic tic · poltroon asking cyst

"Bildar" is a wight who digs.


74.

various sandcoil crumby · I botch tumultuous Asgard
is walking ingrown adlib · octopus coachman pillbug plight
according grisly fumbling amp · ubication myth

Back to nomadics with products that don’t stay in a singular box or location.


75.

solitary polyps flow · I stamp back gray cyclic sparrow
loggias sly by spanking aspirin · of globular rock twitch night
is starry fallow impish spoor · oblivion's ramp

A song is a polyp.


Wednesday, July 13, 2005

alas
(via transoxiana dot org)


"Today the Guarani Indians have almost disappeared. ...There no longer exist any monuments or traces of their civilization. We know practically nothing of them. The only inheritance left to their heirs is their language, as sweet as it is expressive and musical. But it contains everything: civilization, history, wisdom, morality, a concept of the world, and the genius and soul of the race." --S*rgio Cu*vas, album prolog to Th* Harp of Paraguay


Monday, July 11, 2005

alas



70.

apricot spiral brick I · octopus coachman stony ask
opium nights crumbly rain · sly aboulia brick with scary
skald dilatory roost accrual · story songs opt

Mid brow was a rod holding our two front radials as a singular unit.


71.

cubical hubris abuzz · I scaffold laugh cliff churchical
ruinous obloquy prolific · fight Tsathoggua far
abtar run ozostomia · azurn villainy

Out without my communicator: my car has a blowout.


72.

troika grisly morons I · skirt labyrinth ogham around
bitmap ashtray alizarin · cyborg imago orb bright
fornication ongoing as · Sith usurp skunk mill

Furious rain, aslant. Follow a pair of crimson lights. My window drips.
    Abruptly it stops.




Darmok.


Sunday, July 10, 2005


  'I have a terrible fear of being an animal
of white snow, that supported father
and mother, with only its veiny circulation,
and that, this splendid day, solar and archepiscopal,
a day that thus represents the night,
this animal
lineally avoids being happy, breathing,
and transforming itself and having money.

  It would be a great pity
if I were a real man to that degree.
A folly, a most fruitful premise
to whose occasional yoke succumbs
the spiritual hinge of my waist.
A folly... Meanwhile,
it is like this, this side of God’s head,
in the tablet of Locke, of Bacon, in the livid neck
of the beast, in the snout of the soul.

  And, in aromatic logic,
I have this practical fear, this splendid
lunar day, of being that one, this one perhaps,
to whose nose the ground, the living folly
and the dead folly smell of death.

  Oh to roll about, to exist, to cough, to belt,
to belt the doctrine, one's temple, from shoulder to shoulder,
to move away, to cry, to give it for eight
or for seven or for six, for five or to give it
for life with its three powers.'

--3shl*man's Vall*jo



Slant. (via Po*try Scor*card)


Saturday, July 09, 2005

Cool points for a vintag* V*spa in Th* Int*rpr*t*r.



66.

carious paralysis · grisly I sound humpback asphault
sparring laptop cranch rancid · Olofi by tsar bingo ash
agrammatists frolic in ash · Olofi clockwork

As-if simulacra--but naturally, cannot.


67.

parity handiwork gray · I study dying shag carport
indignant idols wintry · twinkling Botvinnik crowbar skull
ogdoastich fraying candy · dying pillbox ash

Sith think that our living is postmortal to a truly vital duration.


68.

furious bunkum grisly · I sorrowing wusp Asgard 'sblood
nugatory incoming · skillful cull am Ygg Dracula
Viagra aslant clockwork my · links is mouth crisp frail

Voyaging cold world, our plan for you is a swift hit with an iron box.


69.

Darfur bawdy drastic oft · ruin frail about rain twinkling
addiction hyacinth odorous · arroyo haul astray
atavist pity ickypoo · ronin offal storp

Churchical, shadowy and slow.


Friday, July 08, 2005

alas
(via Plan*tary dot org)


An Ilocano T*rzan*ll*. (Its script.)


"in my blacks

my black coat flaunts its stains
as variations on a dark motif. I
am clad in shifting shadow;
skyclad of black,
I match clouds of waiting rain -

my coat of many inks, no unity
in its thick wool folds,
within I am dirty -no downfall
will banish my guilt, or filth -
my mask is tight black, criminal;

but, at black's most distant rim,
( colour hums a null and void)
I find my mark, with mid-air wings;
I will not join its frail flight
though; rapt, I am, in my blacks,
of coat, mask, soul, air"

--Cappucin*



Crafting Manif*sto.


Thursday, July 07, 2005

alas



63.

Nazi walking azimuth · I twinkling maintain aloof skim
viral angry agoutis · harp Uzi dickalog ammo
rub it phthalo viridian · its own fight only

A dramatic cooling, cloudy and windy from nothing.


64.

pharming chaos lank crystal · Amharic I ingot aghast
accrual this vanilla · pomp is Pluto candy incog
akam icily cruzada · lying rsta stains

Pomp is big in Sith art. "Cruzada" is a tax for christian wars.


65.

duping mutually sphinx I · snug ogham amass tubular
stars Mulholland walking cloud · alluvial pygarg Tsathoggua
sporangium shopping risk · antic ixodid

Politics as a gaming cult.

"...a decision was made to let Puck and Pedro fight over the future identity of The Real World. Puck represented the idea of a show where everyone was openly fake and we all knew it was a sham [akam]; Pedro represented the aesthetic of a show where what we saw was mostly fake but we would agree to watch it as if it was totally real [puram]. It was almost a social contract." --Chuck Klost*rman, S*x, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (2004)



Chart No. 2.


"For the past half century the process of artmaking has been part of its subject, and this making becomes a symbolic act that attempts to substitute for the silence of all the other objects." (via wood_s lot)


Ms. P. honors yours truly by quotation.


My significant Half (M. Pruit) talks about Am*rican Idol finalist John St*v*ns's CD at this location ("Snazzy N*w R*d").


Wednesday, July 06, 2005

alas



59.

Africa of gray I scry · waspish loudly oft Ogpu brumous
farb ryotwar siblings · ashtray scoop dray my twinkling barf
is option Biblical as what · cloud voyaging gulp

I build for nothing, as birds with lost offspring do.


60.

garish rapacious Crathco · I is shorn from Baathists sport rank
scowl link to bulbous ascot · ichor argot cargo itch chirr
scrips so high diaspora us · Ishtar who hodag

What is this day but a charm against tomorrow?


61.

Nabisco nabi abnormal · I aspic scour hohotan
anchor laptop obi wins · rants abscissa insult cobra
grisly ambush lank plink pillbug · walking as apart

”Hohotan” is Mangani (Tarzan lingo) for ‘clan’.


62.

vilify gills flinch I off · pylon agrimony lift flood
plain as of glass birthday ink · scurvy shards final morth if oft
aporia hyacinth sly · born in warm igloo



Unusual bards.


Throps and squallhoots.


Story songs.


Sandpap*r painting.