personal pan pizza

—Quit drinking coffee, day 4, still feel a little moony, a little spacey, but pretty much out of the woods
—Blog, internet, writing, friends, harmful, peaceful occlusions. Dog just realized “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ is a brilliant name for a (brilliant) TV show. Couldn’t get enough of the photographs accompanying this NYT article about The Onion, [...]

Violent and original dreams

Will Self on JG Ballard in Granta 107:
Ballard, the most outlandish of fictional imaginers, had always dug out his wellspring by the hearth, and remained the perfect exemplar of Magritte’s dictum: a bourgeois in his life, a revolutionary in his dreams.
Another maxim, expressing a similar sentiment, is attributed to Flaubert. From his entry on [...]

The Institutionist

(That’s what I kept thinking Nicholson Baker’s new novel was called. The Institutionist. Did you mean: The Institutionalist?!?!??!)
(Still braindead.) Anyway:
Geoff Dyer on Nicholson Baker’s The Anthologist (in the Abu Dhabi National):
It’s a bonkers idea, but as we all know, any given sentence can be galvanised by a single surprising word (which is also, as Yeats [...]

Does Daniel Johnston Get Babes?

I’m just curious. What do you think? I think he might. But I don’t know. I haven’t seen the documentary. There is a “new interview” with him here. There is a new song here. I am totally going blind; I love music, art, and erotic mystery.
Laters,
Percy

Brainstorming Session

SHANNON: Maybe we should have called this a barn-storming session!
[General laughter.]
SHANNON: [Cont] No but really, Jacob, you haven’t been updating the admin site, and we’ve all fallen behind because of your laziness. What’s been going on?
JACOB: Well, I stopped being a vegetarian, and it’s really thrown my digestion for a loop. I also started smoking [...]

Shopping Cart

this is supposed to be a fantastic comp. Also, these guys are awesome (via efd)
looking fwd to reading this, once I take this hellraiser mask off. Kevin Killian’s been “killiang” it on the sfmoma blog. funny fotos of r. pettibon
what else, whatever, work is bonkers, in “its own way”
lunch: brought two sandwiches, one pb&j, one [...]

Domo Corpusti

OCEAN: The black flag wavers for a fucking second, not safe for work, a grand glugging gets going and the waters of the world drain away.
BUSTY CACTUS: They drain? Don’t you think they’d evaporate first?
OCEAN: Naw. No. They drain. Through mine anus. Through mine geo-bio-tunnel. Which, I should add, can be quite sensitive. There is [...]

metal machine music

Here is an essay that’s probably incredibly fun to read by Annie Wyman in the Leland Quarterly (??!)
Tony Coulter’s LAST-EVER radio show on WFMU today is shredding, plucking, strumming, reverberating, distorting, noodling, etc on my heartstrings. A wonderful radio show by a wonderful DJ. I think he can safely be called one of the “greats”! [...]

Shellfishness

This blog has lately become yet another “Chris Ying is ineffably awesome forever” blog, which is fine by me. (He’s written a few guest posts, after all!)
At any rate, old Plebescite’s got a brilliant piece in the new issue of Meatpaper, on “why we watch men eating meat”:
If the complaint about porn is that women [...]

Dirtbikin’ Through the Times

two quotations from the nyt:
White excitedly showed sketches for his contribution to Meatpaper magazine’s party at Camino the following night: a pig’s head stuffed with a terrine of tongues. (“Blah Blah Beats the Nodes Out of the Snot-Rags,” p. A57)
In effect, anybody with money can circumvent the Legislature by putting something to a statewide plebiscite, [...]