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Archive for July, 2007


The Child Experiments with Playing a Monster

Republished Feb 2009. Revised and expanded upon the analysis with additional material.
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Michelangelo Antonioni has died, less than 24 hours after the death of Ingmar Bergman. Two individuals who made remarkable contributions to cinema and story telling. Kurosawa’s film Dreams, which Marty and I were [...]


Penthouses From 14th Street

Despite all my rage, I’m still just a rat in a cage…
Music for the ride. Smashing Pumpkins, Bullet with Butterfly Wings at You Tube.

The truth is the world really does look different from the penthouse, or the mountain top. And the ministers never tell their congregations the truth. I [...]


Dorothy and Dylan in Sepia, 2
When we first got goldfish, it freaked me out that we had pets that didn’t blink or close their eyes when they slept. They just stared. What were they thinking? Marty still sometimes stands by the aquarium, regarding, and asks, “What are they thinking?”
I don’t believe a [...]


Woody’s, digital photo, 2005
7:33 P.M. – I think I just poisoned myself with some old soda crackers.
7:34 P.M. – I was going to write that life is full of unexpected surprises but that seems so redundant.
8:00 P.M. – CHRISTOPHER WALKEN ROASTS A CHICKEN WITH PEARS! I kid you not. I’ve hated [...]


Boredom set in with the look of my blog, which is how the new header happened, and now I want to change everything about the blog.
Later.
Update: I wildly changed the look of my blog. It is not wild looking, no, but it is quite a change. Of course, unless you’re a regular [...]


The Child Experiments with being a Tiger Playing a Piano

I’m experiencing some unfortunate luck lately with ordering over the internet.
I ordered, from Usedbooks 123, via Abebooks, “Annie’s Coming Out”, written by Anne McDonald and Rosemary Crossley, an account of Anne’s growing up in an institution and how she managed to get out.
The order came in yesterday. I open the baby blue plastic [...]


The Child Experiments with Making a Musical Instrument

Question mark butterfly from below

Originally uploaded by jim_mcculloch

H.o.p. was sick with a cold this week and somewhere along the way I lost a day, but despite that I was wasting more time (writing/not writing) last night cleaning out some bookmarks and came across this one of photos of a neon skimmer dragonfly interacting with realistic [...]