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Inattention as Writing Tool
Risking stupidity … The essays in this volume work through examples. The writing tries not only to accept the risk of sprouting deviant, but also to invite it. Take joy in your digressions. Because that is where the unexpected arises. … Continue reading
Eat Me Drink Me
Michael Pollan Food Rules # 36 < that piece after the hashtag is a strawberry Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk. So this might mean — don’t eat milk with your cereal (eat a little … Continue reading
Home Page — Paging Home
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine offers glimpses into one’s past like this home page from 2001 What you may ask is a home page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_page A personal home page historically has served as a means of self-portrayal, job-related presentation, and … Continue reading
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From Fear of Missing Out to Being Present
I like this direct attack. Puncturing the ballon with flair. Here’s an insight that I’ve had about success: You can’t be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can’t have it all. You … Continue reading
F R A N C O I S [fʁɑ̃swa]
A visit to the coffee shop. I know they will get my order correct and I dread how they will mangle my name. We are not in Montréal where “François” would be quite common. I usually pronounce and spell (sometimes … Continue reading
on parting from the party
Sometimes an atheist can be holier than thou… AN AFFECTATION IN PARTING. He who wishes to sever his connection with a party or a creed thinks it necessary for him to refute it. This is a most arrogant notion. The … Continue reading
Houses and Wares
Some are registered through the Little Free Library Org. Some are autonomous. They are agents of circulation. Experiments in collective currating. This one located on Clinton Street in Toronto has a lively polka-dotted roof. Its side view offers an image … Continue reading
Indifference
Thom Gunn Selected Poems 1950-1975 concludes with a poem chosen from Jack Straw’s Castle called “The Cherry Tree” which after description of the fecund abundance of the fruit-bearing tree moves to a description of its self-possession. The babies, i.e. cherries, … Continue reading
Slack
Looseness in the system is what allows work to get done. In his authoritative Information Payoff: the Transformation of Work in the Electronic Age (1985), Paul A. Strassmann observes that there is an enormous amount of invisible slack in routine … Continue reading
Occasions
Simone, Louisette and Julia afix their initials to the Commonwealth edition of the forward to Mastering the Art of French Cooking and thus above those signature elements can be read: This is a book for the servantless cook who can … Continue reading