January 2009
40 posts
Big Apple
I set my cell-phone’s iridescent clock to New York time; in part to feel in touch with the daily goings-on of my Eastern sister, and in part to remind myself of plans. I have always wanted to live in New York city. It’s a daunting proposition; something akin to living in Mumbai without the family connections, but - having listened to Billy Holiday from the earliest hours of my longing...
09/01/25, sketch from Mario's
Jeff was a Blues artist, a blazing lap-lay guitar of antique Jazz.
Jeff had a particular affinity for 45 rpm vinyl, and as he had no job and no legitimate human contacts to lay claim to, his wealth was measured in the loyal and ever-expanding collection of musical experience that he kept, uncategorized, in the vast library of his mind. In truth, Jeff was not one of this Earth; at least not in the...
When I Hear the Learn'd Astronomer
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding...
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“The search for the Northwest Passage is one of the great adventures of this county, though what drove men out there is something Stan Rogers understood and I do not. A lot of dudes had a hard on for the Passage, but the most notorious of these is probably John Franklin.” - KateBeaton.com
Kate Beaton makes amazing, historically-inspired comics that she then hosts on her blog. These...
General Wolfe—noble hero, or incompetent fatalist?
Written by Daniel Francis, for Geist Magazine. Text and image snagged from here.
When General James Wolfe scampered up the steep path that carried him onto the Plains of Abraham and into the pages of the history books, what was he thinking? Given that 250 years have passed since his assault on the gates of Quebec City, one would expect that the answer to that question would be known. Quite to...
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Taj Mahal - Leaving Trunk
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more...”
– Albert Einstein (via theministryoftruth)
New Year's Resolution
I’m writing this, on the first day of the first month of the year of 2009 - 4 years before the day I was born sixteen years ago on the 5th of January, 1993 - in response to the New Year’s Resolution that I made to myself just hours ago, in which I promised myself that I would keep on writing. That’s it. Just keep on writing. On writing: just on and on, dreaming in the immensity...