Field recoring by Bill Thompson on January 1st, 2005
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W.S. Burroughs at archive.org
Testing this flash and mp3 plugin by asymptomatic with a 49Mb Archive.org remote file of William S Burroughs reading at Naropa….
“The virus in my cerebellum…”
Shaolin Soccer at Betalevel (formerly c-level) kicked my ass into spinning orbit. Bless you d. g. eng.
The next edition of Wasp and Orchid is in May….
Hipster Courtship
Transcribed verbatum in the in the Little Joy:
Cobra Kai, omigod that is so kewl! See, this one is a seahorse going in to a cave. It’s from a 19th century botanist’s work, or whatever. Everyone calls it Nemo. And on my back is a giant mermaid. I’m rilly into rabbits — you know that right?
Don’t Fear the Reaper
I’ve never fully understood what global climate change deniers are thinking. First saying nothing was happening, finally admitting that an insignificant little something or other was happening, then occasionally admitting that maybe a big something was happening but that it doesn’t actually matter. What’s eight degrees, right? Hey, eight degrees! Whatever!
Such total ignorance of scale and complexity is sort of like saying that’s it would be cool if you were dropped from a height equal to a thousandth of the Earth’s diameter. Hey, come on . A thousandth! That’s like, almost nothing! What’s the problem here?
I haven’t been able to figure out if this lack of awareness is genuine brain dipped in shit stupidity, or if it’s a deeply cynical apocalyptic awareness which is just trying to rake in a few bucks before the inevitable Crash.
