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From the New Yorker - says it all really pic.twitter.com/pvCGOEqtes

— Tom Raftery (@TomRaftery) January 30, 2014

(via Tom Raftery via Lee Billings on twitter)

"the only bomb shelter is psychosis." --Don Gordon

Banshee Chapter--terrible title--seems to be based on the ideas in DMT: The Spirit Molecule, which I have always thought would make a good scifi saga...

"By Charon ferried to the burning coast." --Hoole's Ariosto

A new genre: Black MIDI.

"And Xibalba is packed with tests, heaps and piles of tests." --Popol Vuh (tr Tedlock, 1996)

Creepypasta.

"Rollers, and orioles, and lorries" --Roy Campbell

(via )

"Kafka's sirens are silent." --Walter Benjamin

Lojban Oz

"But you keep repeating “Kharaxos is coming
with a full boat”: that, I believe, is for Zeus
and all the gods to know; you should not be
thinking such things;

you should send me instead with strict instructions
to pray fervently to Lady Hera
that Kharaxos might arrive and bring his
ship safe and sound here,

finding us safe as well. As for the rest,
let’s entrust it all to the gods—fair weather,
after all, can come from a heavy gale
all of a sudden.

Those to whom the Lord of Olympus chooses
to send a god, one who will help them forthwith
out of their troubles, they are the fortunate
and very blessed.

We ourselves, if Larikhos should raise
up his head and one day become a man,
we will be from the troubles that weigh us down
freed in an instant." --new Sappho, via

Pyrocumulus

Looking Back.

Pataphor.

    "A Drenching"

My tracks on the earth
Something that is heavy
Follows

Something that bulks
Against the stars
And yet erases

Like a wind

Narconovelas.

"Explosion without an objective...is politics in its purest form." --Against the Day (2006)

Dark patterns and dark lightning. Not to mention zombie pigeons.

Building a case is the only human activity that has a 100% success rate.

(via US Dept Interior)

Make a lava lamp on your blog.

Google Glass in Vogue. (via Sterling)

Name hurricanes after obstructionist lawmakers. (via supergee)

months if ever
to realize
what i realize
in a matter of seconds

that's what makes them management

"Just in case this building wasn't identifiable as a church a neon cross was added."

"But who the fuck are we kidding?."

"The frontier ends and disconnection begins." --ibid

(via io9)

Bubble wrap and decay.

Magic does not work, & it is all the more powerful for that.

(via Bill Knott Art blog)

"In 2011, long after Manning was done and in custody, we classified 92 million documents." (via silliman)

"It might not be about Iceland spar after all."
--ibid

(Dead Horse Bay via atlas obscura)