August 2010
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The Camaraderie of Weather
It happens in the North in the winter and in the South in the summer. When the weather is bad, either too hot or too cold, raining or snowing, people get together.
Lately in New Orleans it’s been extremely hot. Now, I like the heat, don’t get me wrong, but when the heat index reaches 119, as it did last week, even I start to get irritable. The thing is though: everyone is in the same...
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“And if for the time being the filthy stigmas of Your “Common sense”...”
– Slap in the Face of Public Taste (A Futurist Manifesto)
by David Burliuk, Alexander Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Victor Khlevnikov
15th december 1913
“…life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies in all...”
– from “Sleeping on a Wing” by Frank O’Hara