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“In truth, this gentleman is a luxurious Ottoman”
<<<Excuse the administrative exercise—trying to learn how to use what Blog Artists call a page jump—in the small hope of lessening the burden on your blog eye>>> An humorous...
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“perning in a gyre”
Morning, noon & bloody night, Seven sodding days a week, I slave at filthy work, that might Be done by any book-drunk freak. This goes on till I kick the bucket: FUCKITFUCKITFUCKITFUCKIT -Philip...
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Don’t Fake it Baby, Lay the Real Thing On Me
Bowie has said that “Moonage Daydream” was his attempt to write T. Rex’s “Telegram Sam”—a huge radio hit in the UK during the gestation of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from...
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In Print: 1 of 3
In keeping with doomspirals’ recent foray into self-promotion, I thought to mention that I have an article in the current issue of Print Magazine. The article isn’t available online, but the magazine...
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In Print: 2 of 3 — Flaubert’s Business Card
Maxime du Camp, companion of Flaubert, was the first to photograph the Sphinx. I’ve found amusement in the psychedelic business cards of Mohamed Ali Street for several years—it’s always nice to...
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Rags and Feathers
The two of us lazing in the park with silence sweeping the green, as a summer day fizzles out in the static, darkening leaves. I love how the last line pivots on the two meanings of static: the hissing...
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I dont know watt
There is a certain charm conveyed in the variant spellings of words in texts written before dictionaries standardized the language. Somehow this charm is doubled when the author is freestyling words...
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Mr. Misr
For those who dig the ‘Egypt’ tag on this brog, you may be interested to read doomspirals’ article in the new issue of MERIP. (For those without a subscription, a PDF of the article is here.) The...
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Superb Owl
In recognition of the victory of The Ravens, here is a haunted tidbit related to Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Written by Gauguin in the Marquesas (tite flag) shortly before the painter’s death, it relates an...
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Please find attached my discontent
One of the vomit-piles of modern life is formal email correspondence. Swapping stock phrases with strangers at the unfun costume party called “job”: No Thanks! Was amused then to discover that the...
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Hassan al-Banna & The Flux Capacitor
You know that silly internet meme where people locate “time travelers” in old photographs? Well—somewhat improbably—I think I discovered evidence of Muslim Brotherhood time travelers in an old Lehnert...
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O.G. Flavor Baby
On July 10 Sotheby’s is auctioning Samuel Beckett’s autograph manuscript of “Sasha Murphy”—what would become Murphy (1938). The handwritten, heavily-edited draft fills six school exercise books and is...
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