The Underbrain
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Castoff from my New Story
It didn't fit, and it's too bad.
It's a fucked-up thing to write, and in some ways I feel better not including it. But it's stuck in me, all the same. So I give it a little home here.
"It's funny the way that the head and the hands float like an aura around the rest of the body—the vulgar body under those three high points. When I was a kid I drew a picture of a naked corpse—a woman's body—missing its head, its hands, its feet. Actually, it would have been fine to keep the feet. It was an overtly sexualized picture—one of my first—as well as a first stab at desiring women in the ways I’d seen it done in movies (naked, dead, left only to body.) I knew the picture was wrong, so I kept it hidden. I didn't like it at all. Eventually I must have thrown it away, or hidden it so well that I lost track of it." ¶ 3:57 PM 0 Comments
It's a fucked-up thing to write, and in some ways I feel better not including it. But it's stuck in me, all the same. So I give it a little home here.
"It's funny the way that the head and the hands float like an aura around the rest of the body—the vulgar body under those three high points. When I was a kid I drew a picture of a naked corpse—a woman's body—missing its head, its hands, its feet. Actually, it would have been fine to keep the feet. It was an overtly sexualized picture—one of my first—as well as a first stab at desiring women in the ways I’d seen it done in movies (naked, dead, left only to body.) I knew the picture was wrong, so I kept it hidden. I didn't like it at all. Eventually I must have thrown it away, or hidden it so well that I lost track of it." ¶ 3:57 PM 0 Comments
Monday, July 10, 2006
Mayflies on radar dense enough to look like rain
If you're a believer, this is the stuff that keeps you faithful. If not, this is the stuff that at least helps you understand the sensation of god-fearing.
Their genus name, ephemeroptera, means "one-day wings." It's a hell of a day. In the adult form, mayflies' mouths have become vestigial. Flight and mating are their final acts, and their bodies are built for nothing else. You live your life under the water for a year as an ugly sea-monster, and are given grace and starvation in equal measure.
Image from The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, via Boing-Boing. ¶ 10:59 AM 0 Comments
Their genus name, ephemeroptera, means "one-day wings." It's a hell of a day. In the adult form, mayflies' mouths have become vestigial. Flight and mating are their final acts, and their bodies are built for nothing else. You live your life under the water for a year as an ugly sea-monster, and are given grace and starvation in equal measure.
Image from The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, via Boing-Boing. ¶ 10:59 AM 0 Comments
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Your Morning Baudrillard
from AM 1090 news (Seattle's local Air America affiliate)...
Regarding the recent attempt for a Coke employee to sell formula secrets to Pepsi, John Stusser of the Beverage Digest said:
"Anybody with some money and access to a high-tech chemistry lab could probably decipher the ingredients of Coca-Cola. What makes Coke valuable is the brand and the trademark."
Ingredients? Who Cares? We're drinking image-objects. ¶ 4:24 PM 0 Comments
Regarding the recent attempt for a Coke employee to sell formula secrets to Pepsi, John Stusser of the Beverage Digest said:
"Anybody with some money and access to a high-tech chemistry lab could probably decipher the ingredients of Coca-Cola. What makes Coke valuable is the brand and the trademark."
Ingredients? Who Cares? We're drinking image-objects. ¶ 4:24 PM 0 Comments
