we miss you, o'riordans!

my socal philosophy

things, swimming

1. citizendium
2. segolene royal
3. rhodia stationery
4. wanderlust
5. death
6. the tourists
7. los angeles' times' bookfair
8. jesus & the mary chain at the glass house
9. self-image
10. new orleans' voo doo
11. script anxiety
12. [yours to determine]
13. geneaological mortality

penis power & long john silver's

rachel, i do believe you will enjoy this particularly fresh piece of public television from atlanta.

let's independent!

in other, exciting news: come to the next let's independent show at boardner's! eagle and talon, radars to the sky, & the prix are playing tuesday, 24 april for free. of course, it is 21 & over. 9p.

for more information go to: radiofreesilverlake.blogspot.com

if you were not with us last weekend, you missed out. i told you to come.

next time, will you listen?

xo

the humanist joke

it has been two weeks & now kurt vonnegut is dead.

i just read it when i logged on, pages of streaming bulletin banners of r.i.p kurt.

[could you imagine if myspace had been around when the other kurt passed?]

of course vonnegut's death upsets me, pulls my satirical safety blanket from my hands. he was always paired with mark twain in my literary patheon. mustached & sharp, putting the truth down on paper one stark, yet eloquently shaped letter at a time. he never rubbed ignorance in another's face, but set a potent example with his humility & his ability to ask / address questions without shame. rare qualities, those.

i am grateful for his writings as they have offered honest laughter & comfort to the world for the past sixty years or so & will surely continue to do so in times to come, when things perhaps become stranger still.

kurt is up in heaven now.