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Re: Leaving for PDX/EUG tomorrow, Fact/Myth Edition

cursivebuildings — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:00:28 -0000

Stumptown coffee. Powells books. Art shows (although these are everywhere if you look)

Re: Leaving for PDX/EUG tomorrow, Fact/Myth Edition

cursivebuildings — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:59:34 -0000

MYTH; Portland is the best place on the planet.
FACT: Portland is the best.
MYTH: I lived there for two years.
FACT: I lived there for four years.
MYTH: It rains all the time.
FACT: In the winter it rains often (usually not hard, like a mist), but July through September is dry & hot (almost brutally)

Re: http://lilhanson.tumblr.com/post/593010284

cursivebuildings — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:53:17 -0000

That someone else was me!

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/500893863

cursivebuildings — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:23:25 -0000

Actually my 'lawn' is the empty expanse between my windows & the adjacent building, however you can camp there if you have wings.

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/500893863

cursivebuildings — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:38:19 -0000

I forgive everybody.

(but serious, get off my god damn lawn)

Re: Meta is Murder. Writing and lesser things by Mills Baker. L’esprit de l’escalier.

cursivebuildings — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:00:03 -0000

Fantastic prose, kid.

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/399348190

cursivebuildings — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:05:45 -0000

I lost track of where I was going w/that... but! If this expansion of mental space might explain why time seems to speed up as we age, perhaps it also speaks to why profane things can so easily lose their luster by young adulthood (it takes bigger & bigger things to make an impression).

PS. very happy that you'd equate my work w/a resistance to this element.

Re: http://mills.tumblr.com/post/399348190

cursivebuildings — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:57:22 -0000

There is something to be said, too, of the expansion of your awareness in growing older right? That is to say, the fields of your mind are much longer as an adult. For children w/only a handful of summers between them, a summer day is an ocean. For me, w/29 summers in mind, it is only a lake.

Re: mills baker - From Topherchris I came to an article discussing...

cursivebuildings — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:02:18 -0000

I love animals. I would not send them off to die.
I love human beings. I would not want to kill them.
However, if all that I love were being threatened by the leaders of those that I do not know (this is the basis of war, isn't it?), I would fight them. I would kill human beings, probably some dumb kid like me who doesn't understand exactly what's happening. These are messy thoughts, this is a messy world. Nature isn't exactly peaceful.
Since we have (obvious) self-consciousness & life-consciousness & world-consciousness, I think stewardship is word not to be dismissed. I don't really have an answer, though.

ps. About eating dead animals... I think too many people think meat comes from the grocery store. I think only farmers intrinsically get it. The rest of us should try harder.

Re: 52Books - #50: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino As a huge...

cursivebuildings — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:15:24 -0000

Maybe I'm mistaken, it's been a bit since I've read that book, but isn't it the overarching idea that Marco Polo is truly describing exactly one city to the old emperor... different aspects of his own! In this way, it's very much like how you describe New York City.

Re: S. 12th’s decade in review: Jenny Tatone’s 10-star review of the Strokes’ “Is This It,” NEUMU.net, late 2001.

cursivebuildings — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:37:35 -0000

I actually know her... or knew her. Small world. We wrote for the Willamette Week in Portland during the same time period. That's funny that you creeped her out...

Re: the ragbag - by Mills Baker When Skee-Lo, describing a parade...

cursivebuildings — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:34:52 -0000

I like the part where you insult our intelli... intella.. intellaj... smarts.

Re: the ragbag - FEATLET by billy dalto Raynor Ganan’s sister, a...

cursivebuildings — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:05:28 -0000

Maybe he means din in the English sense. Damn the def.-defying Atlantic!

Re: the ragbag - FLIZZEN by abby “little potato” myles the days...

cursivebuildings — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:23:59 -0000

Listen we need to faff our asses into action... make some delicious bread pudding w/all these stale biscuits. THEN sell the pudding to this "someone, somewhere" & be done w/it.

Re: yessssss.

cursivebuildings — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:55:25 -0000

Soooo absolutely happy you're beyond 'deathly sickness'
Reading that truly surprised & humbled me. What was wrong?

Re: mills baker - All of the brightest things live in the darkest...

cursivebuildings — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:18:30 -0000

One alternate caption for this piece was:
"Three celestial bodies about to jump a motherfucker."'

Re: http://yourpalmal.com/post/188016624

cursivebuildings — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:50:32 -0000

TL;DR (just kidding, too small to read!)

Re: mills baker - On this afternoon the weather was inclement, but...

cursivebuildings — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:43:43 -0000

What a beautiful piece of earth. Also, heavenly flashlights!

Re: Life is hard. Here is someone.

cursivebuildings — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:32:59 -0000

Let's be honest... you sit in that chair w/a paper coffee cup & serenade passers-by UNTIL you have enough change for laundry.

Or is that what I'd do? I forget. No matter....

Re: Nil nisi bonum de mortuis dicere.

cursivebuildings — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:59:05 -0000

artcrit & Mills: Yes, he should have taken full responsibility. It is, afterall, what people of office intrinsically ought to do.

However, I disagree w/the 'confess, confess to everything, it's as simple as that' bit. Nothing is as simple as that. To what & to whom exactly is he confessing? Suddenly it sounds like we're judge & jury & able to hand out forgiveness for horrible acts...

Whether we are reborn in death, or simply extinguished... confession & forgiveness seem like very personal battles that cannot be won or lost outside the skull.

PS. &! Despite the fact that we all wear sloppy t-shirts now & watch South Park, people of power have been getting away w/all sorts of criminal bullshit for thousands of years. Let's not pretend Mr. Kennedy's bullshit is somehow an indictment of modern America. There are plenty of legit indictments for that.

Re: Nil nisi bonum de mortuis dicere.

cursivebuildings — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:32:21 -0000

Life is more difficult to believe than fiction.

Strange how plot lines diverge so clearly from commendable to condemnable, & yet we cannot locate the exact point of departure. He should have taken immediate responsibility. He should have struggled harder to save her. He should have been driving more carefully. He should have been home w/his family. Where's the trigger?

Real interesting read & reminder. Thank you.

Re: mills baker - Here is an ambiguous contribution to the theme of...

cursivebuildings — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:53:40 -0000

MAN, TRUE. Oh how this crazy furry soap opera turns & turns & turns...
Wake me up when the UNDERSTANDING OF ALL THINGS is over.

Re: mills baker - Here is an ambiguous contribution to the theme of...

cursivebuildings — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:51:12 -0000

You, sir, are a scientist. I mean, maybe you are... I dunno. What do I look like? Some kind of scientist or something?

Re: mills baker - Here is an ambiguous contribution to the theme of...

cursivebuildings — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:27:10 -0000

Agreed. This is no issue on which to pledge allegiance.

( I mean, who knows which species will inherit this planet after we finally run it full speed into a lamp post? Maybe the koalas! I dunno.. I'm no scientist! )

Re: kateopolis

cursivebuildings — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:38:11 -0000

I think you've single-handedly awakened a deep love of architecture in me over the last few months.