Archive for April, 2008

"It’s fun to think of it as ‘dusty’ blue because of what befalls it later. It’s by far the best suit in the movie, in the movies, perhaps the whole world."

Best part? It's called the Argus II. Argus is the name of several mythic figures, including Argus Panoptes (the hundred-eyed giant), Odysseus' faithful dog, and both the shipwright of the Argo and also a shipwrecked traveller rescued by Jason.

From the abstract for a story in today's New York Times about the acquisition of Wrigley's by Mars, Inc. Seems like the phrase only occurs in syndication of the story, but is worthy of a surrealist master.

Thank GOD. FINALLY. UbuWeb now hosts three of Baldessari's video pieces, including this hilarious exercise in context and imagination. PLEASE, PLEASE, keep these coming.

Feature in the current issue of Seed tracing the curious effect of small amounts of Hydrogen Sulfide on a number of different living species to one of the 5 only partially explainable mass extinctions in the fossil record.

Vannevar Bush's landmark article in the Atlantic theorizing a machine which partially (wholly?) inspired the functional base of the world wide web.

Another casualty of 9th street.

Moriah picked them up while we were walking down to a new bar around the corner from my old apartment, which was surprisingly classy and unsurprisingly empty.