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This document is a draft of charted instructions for knitting a cabled entrelac cube with 24 squares. I haven't knitted from these charts, so there may be some errors. I'm providing this for anybody who would like to attempt the knitting. I will help if you get stuck... hopefully by the time you get to the sticking point I will have already knitted past you.
May the March on Washington give you the strength and memories that I treasure from my participation in the version of 1987.
"Whether male, female, working or middle class, the first direct sense of political power comes from the apprehension of massed bodies." -- Samuel R. Delaney, The Motion of Light in Water.
The motion of light in watersex and science fiction writing in the East Village
via openlibrary.org
I just finished reading this book, a great memoir of life in NYC in the early sixties. I got almost all the way through the book before realizing I had read it before. A certain scene near the end was very familiar! Oh, well, I must have read it twenty years ago when it first came out.
Murder your darlings
Oct. 8th, 2009 05:26 pmI hold my palm out to you
see, no weapon —
I have to feel your pain and not augment it
do you see these beads I wear
they used to be worries — one for each —
the powers took them and coalesced
them into solid form — so now I
wear them but outside — I can look at
them — so can you.
see, no weapon —
I have to feel your pain and not augment it
do you see these beads I wear
they used to be worries — one for each —
the powers took them and coalesced
them into solid form — so now I
wear them but outside — I can look at
them — so can you.
Fifty-odd years ago my father, who must have been engaged to my mother at the time, wrote to my mother's parents. I lived in New Haven for many years and passed the address he mailed this from many a time, without knowing he had lived there.
The letter was duly delivered to Zero Teague Street in Caribou, Maine, an address created and insisted upon by my grandparents, who made no small amount of trouble with the local postmaster to assure themselves of a locality of nonentity.
dy/dan » Blog Archive » You Have No Life
Oct. 8th, 2009 02:41 pmIt's so obvious to me that the kind of person who would create a cocktail-mixer from balsa wood and twine is simply blowing off steam that life will eventually focus in a direction that will be extremely a) constructive, b) profitable, or c) both. I can't make this obvious to my students. After six years I lack a succinct, meaningful response to my students' defensive, clannish embrace of mediocrity, though I'm grateful for this tweet, which comes pretty close:
dwineman: You say "looks like somebody has too much time on their hands" but all I hear is "I'm sad because I don't know what creativity feels like."
via blog.mrmeyer.com
Love this tweet.
Monsieur Proust (Open Library)
Oct. 5th, 2009 08:59 pmMonsieur Proust
via openlibrary.org
Just finished this. It was a good read. Not much about the gay. Written by the woman who was his servant and friend for the last 8 years of his life. She waited until she was quite old to write it. They both come across as a little saintly.
You see, those of you mashing or mixing Lady Gaga with NeYo or Nirvana or Fiddy or Kanye or Kid Cudi (oops already bin dun to great effect
or something equally as dire or obvious this is the point of mashups…crossing genres, eras and making connections with vastly different music. Rather than just regurgitating the current top 40 in new yet boring ways.
It can make me even like Beyonce (*shock horror!*). Well maybe like is too strong a word…
via mutantpop.net
I love this blog. And this mashup with Beyonce and Duke Ellington is why I love mashups.
Mind Hacks: Classic Sacks
Oct. 3rd, 2009 12:50 pmSeptember 29, 2009
Classic Sacks:
I've just found this remarkable TV interview with Oliver Sacks from 1986, only a year after the publication of his famous book A Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
It's a fascinating discussion, not least because it's something you don't see much these days - an extended interview that focuses solely on a neuroscientist and his work.
There are no gimmicks or attempts to jazz it up with fancy editing and graphics. We see everything during the discussion, including Sacks' many 'ums' and 'ahs' and even hear a telephone going off half way through!
Still, it's a really wide ranging discussion which covers everything from the effects of brain injury to the role of doctors in exploring their patients' lives.
From what I can make out, the interviewer is Harold Channer who did the piece for a Manhattan-based public access TV network probably before Sacks became well-known.
The video quality is a bit ropey but Sacks has a spectacular beard and is as chaotically engaging as ever. Classic stuff.
Link to Oliver Sacks interview from 1986.
—Vaughan.
via mindhacks.com
I haven't seen this yet; his beard stopped me in my tracks.
Sylvia Syms - Mad About The Boy
Oct. 3rd, 2009 12:22 pm[Error: unknown template video]
"Mad about the boy" sung by Sylvia Syms. Wow! More of the lyrics than I'd ever heard before, including the verses.
I guess you have to be a certain kind of gay to be impressed by this. I'm one of them.
"Mad about the boy" sung by Sylvia Syms. Wow! More of the lyrics than I'd ever heard before, including the verses.
I guess you have to be a certain kind of gay to be impressed by this. I'm one of them.
This site is the bomb. As in, it reminds me a little of the B-52's. A hat tip to Krissy Fiction for pointing it out to me.
Flash your furry fingers Friday
Sep. 18th, 2009 02:11 pm
Fingers closeup
Originally uploaded by fuzzyjay
I read or heard somewhere that hairiness of the second (medial) phalanges of the fingers was an indication of overall body-hairiness.
I have a few hairs on the medial phalanges of my middle fingers and a bit more on the ring fingers.
Well - Hand-Washing Helps Fight Flu
Sep. 16th, 2009 05:16 pm
via nytimes.com
Wash your hands, people. If I see someone leaving a public bathroom without washing, I call them on it. Unless they look like they would beat me up for it.
