Notebook(blog)

Gone fishing

Page 26 - Evolution is not linear

Tags (clockwise from top left): Detroitosauras wrecks made the cover of The Economist, a romantic steamboat, the smooth turtle-like underbelly of the EV1 - GM's recalled electric car (Who Klled the Electric Car?), a wood model of Buckminister Fuller's Dyamaxion Car by Isamu Noguchi (Youtube video of car in action), the Concorde - here is a virtual tour of the cockpit. 

Page 25 - Weapon of choice

Handmade axe.

Page 24 - Wows last no longer than the striking of a match.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): R. B. Kitaj in Brick 81, Anthony Lane in The New Yorker, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolystoy, Vera Frenkel in Once Near Water: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive, something Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe said or something I imagined he said, Vera Frenkel from Once Near Water again. 

Page 23 - Pontiacs I have loved

On April 27, 2009 GM announced it would drop the Pontiac brand.

Tags (clockwise from top left): 1979 Trans Am, 1972 Pontiac GTO, 1975 Firebird, 1973 Firebird Trans Am, 1965 Tempest Wagon, 1968 Pontiac LeMans, 1989 Sunbird, 1962 Grand Prix, 2001 Trans Am, 1987 Safari Wagon.

Page 22 (cont.) - It's not the face, it's the expression.

Tags (clockwise from top left): Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, oil from the gallery of Yue Minjun, writer Iris Murdoch, Argentine politician Raúl Alfonsín, more Yue Minjun, Mavis Gallant, Zanzibar Buck Buck McFate.

Page 22 - It's not the face, it's the expression.

Thank you Jada.

Page 21 - There's a kid on a Pogo stick in front of my house.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): JIC Boyd, Christoper Quigley's eye, A CT scan of a 6-piece order of Chicken McNuggets from McDonald's, pot, A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin, Applied Research Bulletin - Volume 2, Number 2 (Summer-Fall 1996), Not Christopher Walken on Twitter @cwalken, Only baroque and roll - maddest art of all by AA Gill.

Page 20 - By the end of the day, your pants look like they have been through an accordian.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): I always get wrinkles around the crotch area when I use a Corby Pant Press - FAQ here, Charles Ponzi looking dapper (Boston Public Library/The New York Times via The Globe), Against Love by Laura Kipnis (via TSR), Does your face give away your personality?, Dr Karl Kennedy: Gynaecologist, Psychiatrist, GP, Mater of the Universe (via New Scientist), What's painting mars?.

Page 19 - Reason is shaped by your body.

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Tags: The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, The Nature of Consciousness by Piero Scaruffi, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson,Your 21 Senses (originally published in the New Scientist), A Metaphysics of Distinction, Performance and Practice by Michael R Finch.

Page 18 - Thick mascara on thin eyelashes.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): 12252 Rutland St. in Detroit, Michigan on sale for $50, Gregory Crewdson, Reagan could sense communism was weaker than it looked (via The Economist), Damien Jurado sings Dancehall Places with Mint Royale, Katherine Kiss Me by Franz Ferdinand, Me.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): 12252 Rutland St. in Detroit, Michigan on sale for $50, Gregory Crewdson, Reagan could sense communism was weaker than it looked (via The Economist), Damien Jurado sings Dancehall Places with Mint Royale, Katherine Kiss Me by Franz Ferdinand, Me.

Page 17 - We're a virus with shoes, that's all we are.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): Alison Des Forges, a witness to genocide, died on February 12th, aged 66, Iceland's Deep Freeze, an image from Tim Knowles, Spy Box -- a digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system, I missed Bill Hicks day,  a bike rack designed by David Byrne (this one a dollar sign to install on Wall Street, via WSJ.com), the heck if I wrote down where I found this photo, David Foster Wallace quoted in The Unfinished by D. T. Max.

Page 16 - What does swan taste like?

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Tags (clockwise from top left): The Big Chill special investing issue of Report on Business magazine, The Lady has her own show, Norma table lamp by Salgado Saucier, Editorial: Drugs drive politicians out of their minds in New Scientist, Popbitch 19.02.09 Issue 435, Globe-trotting city theorist Richard Florida and wife Rana find a home to love perched on a Rosedale ravine.

Page 15 - I got drunk last night and picked these from a neighbor's garden.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): Kenny Rogers wearing his old eyelids (which are like mine, his new eyelids here), The Background Hum: Ian McEwan's art of unease by Daniel Zalewski, Tony Burgess on working with Bruce McDonald in the Quill & Quire, The Sweet Smell of Semantics by Jason Logan, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, The Ponzi State by George Packer, The Laundromat Essay by Kyle Buckley.

Page 14 - One person in ten thousand has their heart in the wrong place.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): Sir John Mortimer, barrister and freedom-fighter, died on January 16th, aged 85, Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry by Frank Close, A Balloon Debate, Peter Schjeldahl on Peter Doig in The New Yorker, 10 Facts About an Olympic Phenomena.

Chart - I feel conflicted about Christian Bale [updated]

1. Did Christian Bale throw away his Oscars hopes by throwing that tantrum? (LA Times, The Awards Insider blog)
2. Apologetic Bale Says Terminator Craziness Fueled Tirade (Wired)
3. Excellent suggestion by Helene M in London, UK.
4. Christian Bale's irresistible invective: There's something strangely fascinating about uncontrolled rage (Telegraph)
5. Listen to Christian Bale go ballistic on Terminator Salvation set (Times Online)
6. Christian Bale's mother 'upset' by tape of star's rant (Guardian)
7. Shane Hurlbut grew up on Goose Lane Road on a 250-acre farm in Aurora, New York. (the man who was shouted at)

Page 12 - People avoid Jazz for the same reason they choose taxicabs over buses.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): Jazz for Beginners in Oxford American Magazine (which is a fantastic magazine about Southern culture), Kim Jong Ill or Kim Jon Well?, John Haskell on Glenn Gould, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch, will the space shuttle fit in our parking spot?

Page 11 - Only this year, suddenly, unexpectedly, Springsteen said yes.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): Liverpool, a binary sunset, Deliverance by James Dickey, a duck, Coming to terms with Bruce Springsteen playing the Superbowl.

Page 10 - The world is full of easy-going, bungee-jumping twats.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): Erin, Martin Freeman (both quotes), the Kobe earthquake, Erin again.

Page 9 - The man in the water.

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Tags (clockwise from top left): A dead plane, The Man in the Water, Andrew Wyeth in Chaddis Ford, Pa., Bill, a dead whale.