Sunday, March 24, 2013

only just learned that jeff bridges takes some very nice panoramic pictures ...














http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/203503.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widelux


apropos du nuffinque ...


















The mind floats free on Sunday mornings now that Foxy has taken his long walk to the stars.

I wake to read the first forty marvellous pages of Orhan Pamuk's Museum Of Innocence, and am seduced by his smooth talk in to a mental quicksand, up to my eyebrows in other people's complexities.

Then I try to finish a letter to Linda but stumble to a halt over this question ...

How will my grandson understand the difference between a non sequitur and an oxymoron if I am not there ?

Then I discover that I can change the settings on my cheap printer to scan postcards in wonderful detail.

... all this before eight o clock.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

working dialogue ...


Winston, a sweet natured gentleman from Jamaica who is still working his night shift when I’m starting my early, too early, morning shift … who I once glimpsed as a shadow dancing around his car and its sound system in the dark before going home from his fifty-something hour week of hard labour … tells me how he was cornered last Sunday evening by a giant colleague with a monologue that had a notoriously predictable course to run …

“you got the complete script then ?”,  I asked him, “chapter and verse ?” 

And Winston replies … “Yesss sir !  From Genesis to Revelations !” and he roars with laughter.

eros sleeping at the met ... with a helpful narrative


















http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/enamored


Saturday, March 2, 2013

some details from tom denny's windows in tewkesbury abbey












































































Installed in 2002, the windows mark the nine hundredth anniversary of the coming of the Benedictine monks to Tewkesbury in 1102. Their theme is the Benedictine motto ‘Laborare est Orare’ (to work is to pray).

http://www.tciwh.org.uk/church-activities/tom-denny.pdf