October 2009
26 posts
“A Frozen Crew” →
The body was seated in a chair and leaning back, a pen was still in its right hand, and before it was the open logbook, in which the dead man had been writing when he ceased to breathe. The last complete sentence of the unfinished entry ran as follows:
‘November 11th, 1762. We have now been enclosed in the ice seventeen days. The fire went out yesterday, and our master has been trying ever since...
"How It Is" by Miroslaw Balka →
Pacebook
The key take-away from Facebook is this: People I know do a lot of running and updating about running.
I liked it better when the internet was just for fat people. It felt more…I don’t know, homey.
Former Japanese Finance Minister Is Found Dead |... →
“Following tradition, he took up an ink brush to paint the eye of the auspicious ‘daruma’ doll, a staple of Japanese political campaigns. Candidates paint in one eye before the campaign, and the other following victory. Painted by Mr. Nakagawa’s unsteady hands, the daruma’s eye soon appeared to be shedding a long stream of black tears.”
That’s a tight little closing.
Watch“You shut up”
