abecedarians will get a rise out of this

pop-up alphabet book

via drawn.

one-minute-videos-of-dance-blog

dance minute.

thanks to hula seventy.

cardio workout for wordlovers

delightful ads and articles from old popular science magazines at the modern mechanix blog.
thanks bb.

spelling bee jewelry

find more great spelling bee pendants here.

the moustache blog

at mustaches of the nineteenth century, all your mustache curiosities and desires will be satisfied.

its proprietor writes:

"Dear Gentle Reader,
Many of the following pages have graphic and clear images of the masculine mustache in all its forms, both sublime and grotesque. My intent is not to shock or titillate, but merely to inform on the subject. The Nineteenth Century gave us many things, but above all it was a hotbed of facial hair experimentation and this is but a poor sampling of those many lost forms."

this "daily celebration of the golden age of upper lip hair" will cheer anyone up.

the daily dress blog

i find myself wanting to be composed merely of pigment just so that i could wearthese dresses. thanks to simply photo for the link.

diy

i love airform archives.

for the librophiliac in you

a sample from the compendium of beautiful libraries from curious expeditions.

courtesy of czeltic girl.

barnyard noir

"run, pug, run"

































travis a. louie

thanks to chris over at bright stupid confetti. he always makes the best confetti.

bats and swallows blog

i feel sad i haven't been able to keep up with my blog as usual as of late. i want to give you something to try to make up for it. this is a pretty lovely place, and so is airform archives, a place i've been wanting to share for a while. and then there's woolgathersome, which i've mentioned in the past, all lush with stuff. wish i had more time to knock around there.

lisa kokin– an artist after my own heart and self proclaimed "anthropomorphologist"

lisa kokin's online portfolio is brilliant. her pieces are made with found materials and sewn photographs and buttons and things. and then there's the matter of her "dogumentary" entitled "heavy petting," in which she fashions several wonderful costumes for her chihuahuas and takes them out for walks and to parties and museums. i guess you probably have to be a dog person to get the maximum amount of enjoyment out of it, and particularly a dog person who has felt that compulsion at some point to dress up your dog. but i recommend that everyone watch this little film. it's plain wonderful.

thanks to bb for the link.

do you need a few green living ideas?

because if you do you should go straight here. i've been doing an internship with thse guys for the past month or so, writing articles like a fiend. the site went live last week, and though it will eventually be a more comprehensive site for learning about every way you can think of for living more sustainably, there are plenty of good topics to read on right now, and the best part is that some of them were written by me! except you can't tell which ones, because the articles have no bylines. my specialty is in the food and cuisine category– so almost all the ones there are mine.

but really, this is not about me. it's a little plug for a good place to visit and get good information about a good many things. the site also features "green talk radio– for down to earth information on environmental issues," and you can listen to the podcasts on everything from hastings nebraska as the greenest city in america to the future of electric cars.
now i've got to get back to writing.

"no signifier does justice linguistically." ~chris higgs

each sign in a language is a union of a signifier and a signified.






chris's beautiful and innovatively structured story,"mother: a deconstruction with critical apparatus" from which the above quote is taken, published in the most recent and "all-fiction" issue of diagram, pertains to the inherent fragility of this linkage. if you enjoy it half as much as i did, you will enjoy it very much.

somehow, nina katchadourian's mended spiderwebs (passed down to me via bb) align themselves perfectly with the notion of the tenuous associations we have with language. the image haunts and haunts me. for writing, too, attempts to repair the rents and ruptures in the texture of days.

but interestingly enough, nina has found that the spiders tend to undo the work she's done, leaving the red threads in a little heap below the web and fixing it themselves.

i wonder, could this be a signifier for literature itself?

a pig's eye view of literature

click here to hear (and see!) sophie's impressive recitation (in a voice that sounds suspiciously like mine) of dorothy parker's poetic commentary on byron, shelley, and keats.

in case you would like to follow along, i've provided the words:



"Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of Lyrical treats.
The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,
And Keats never was a descendant of earls,
And Byron walked out with a number of girls,
But it didn't impair the poetical feats
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley and Keats."




thanks to blabberize for the power and to photojojo for the direction.

laugh out loud

lol president.

bb, you've done it again.

book objects by cara barer

more at fun forever. link from notcot.

i'm too sad to tell you

so many of my friends have been sad lately, this project really resonates.

link via camilla

funny boyfriend

my favorite one: (While watching a commercial for pickup trucks:)

"Buy this truck and PUNCH MOTHER NATURE IN THE FACE."



go here.

the poetry of polaroid

i especially like this is a wake up call's polaroid pairs, like this one, "girl with a cello",









and this, "firefly catcher":












and he has so many other lovely ones, some simply titled like this one called "kimberly":













and others with wonderfully quirky and imaginative titles such as this one, "thinking of a giraffe".


it's got me thinking of giraffes.

pairs

thanks to ez at creature comforts there exists a wonderful new flickr pool called friday's flickr fix. it embodies what i love best about flickr, and has captured the idea of magic in the juxtaposition of photos taken by people independently.













you can join too if you just send her a little note. go to her blog to get more information...








these are my three pairs for today. go to my favorites to get the scoop on everybody.

tonight is my reading as the opening poet for kay ryan and deborah garrison. if you're reading this and you're within a reasonable distance, you might want to come to copperfield's books in montgomery village at seven 'o clock.

but since i know some must miss it, i thought i'd post a little poem here, today, just because.



TIMEPIECE


as i'm leaving

the seaside market of clocks
amid the confusion of hands,

round edges, guesses, and the salt-worn
timekeepers dickering in the sun

i see a shorebird near
a worn spot in the sky

in the threadbare space above me absorbing
the timely vernacular

and turning back i glimpse my freckled shoulder
the celery color of my sundress strap.