My Computer Has Become a Zen Master

"The path does not exist."

Overheard in Hollywood

But my client is showing her breasts. She needs a credit.

Overheard

"Where are you calling from? I keep hearing Chinese in the background."

"Chinatown."

New Poem: The Man in the Hat

The man in the bowler hat
Looked at the painting and said What is that?
That is no painting and I have no hat.

Autocompose

To my secret crush,

Your hair is softer than a thousand bunnies. You move with the elegance of a soft summer cloud. You are simply luminous; a god among men. You shine bright like a diamond.

Butterfly kisses,
Nathan

Made with love by Yahoo Mail Autocompose.

I asked for water

Howling Wolf:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUA9FUTieKA#t=59

Memorial

http://vod.worshipchannels.com/WestminsterArchivedServices

Pynchon sentence: detective version

Maxine drops for a minute into one of Shawn's visualizing exercises in which her Beretta, within easy reach, has been transformed to a colorful California butterfly dedicated, like Mithra, to purposes of peace.

People / Art

Fog

The keys to the Kingdom are locked inside the Kingdom -- Josh Ritter

2013 Reading

Books read in 2013, reverse chronological order:


The History of the Snowman -- Bob Eckstein

Raw -- Mark Haskell Smith

Why Are You So Sad? -- Jason Porter

Total Chaos -- Jean-Claude Izzo

The Flamethrowers -- Rachel Kushner

Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine -- Simon Critchley & Jameson Webster

Little Failure -- Gary Shteyngart

My Mistake -- Daniel Menaker

USA Noir -- Johnny Temple, ed.

The Rage -- Gene Kerrigan

My Notorious Life -- Kate Manning

Acharnians -- Aristophanes (Henderson, tr.)

Medea -- Euripides (Warner, tr.)

The Reason I Jump - Naoki Higashida

Antigone -- Sophocles (Fitts and Fitzgerald, tr.)

Tree of Smoke -- Denis Johnson

Hit by Pitch: Ray Chapman, Carl Mays and the Fatal Fastball -- Molly Lawless

Works and Days -- Hesiod

Theogony -- Hesiod

The Pioneer Detectives -- Konstantin Kakaes

My Struggle:Book 1 -- Karl Ove Knausgaard

Twin Cities Noir: The Expanded Edition -- Julie Schaper & Steven Horwitz, eds.

Pitching in a Pinch -- Christy Matthewson

The Signal -- Ron Carlson

Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in the Seventies -- James Wolcott

The People's Act of Love -- James Meek

The Last Word -- Lisa Lutz

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal -- Mary Roach

Where'd You Go, Bernadette -- Maria Semple

My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles -- Peter Biskind (ed.)

The Teleportation Accident -- Ned Beauman

Voltaire in Love -- Nancy Mitford

Fatale -- Jean-Patrick Manchette

Erasure -- Percival Everett

The Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley

The Dinner -- Herman Koch

Bring Up The Bodies -- Hilary Mantel

How to Be a Woman -- Caitlin Moran

Building Stories -- Chris Ware

Whose Body? -- Dorothy L. Sayers

Secrets of the Wholly Grill-- Lawrence G. Townsend

Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever -- Mark O'Connell

HHhH -- Laurent Binet

Jesus' Son -- Denis Johnson

Reveille in Washington: 1860-1865 -- Margaret Leech

Labyrinth -- David L. Ulin

Red Lights -- George Simenon

Fifth Business -- Robertson Davies

From NYRB

"Like most people in New York, I daily expect to find myself walking the West Side Highway with nothing but a shopping cart stacked with bottled water, a flashlight, and a dead loved one on my back . . . ." -- Zadie Smith

Last night's dream: "We're okay."

Overheard at the Bar

They told me that I was not in danger of killing myself and could leave the hospital. So I left, and then walked back in and said I was suicidal and they re-admitted me. I did this five days in a row.

Link to "lost" concert films, including Robert Franks: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/10/lost-and-found-classic-rock-shows-on-youtube.html