Impossible Kisses

Reports from the Goblin Universe (or, Shadows on the Analemma)

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Untold Stories About Stories Untold

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That’s a beautiful gadget, isn’t it? The motto of Canon’s cinema line of products is: “Leave no story untold” They haven’t announc...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Transit Of Venus

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Last week I grabbed a photo of Venus above the donut shop: That was a bit of a lucky break because over the last few days Venus has begu...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Preliminary Notes For A Space Opera

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“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.” Ed Gardner on “Duffy’s Tavern” [Alban] Berg is r...
Monday, May 28, 2012

On Picking Out A Piece Of The Sky

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It’s very hot here in Chicago these are my shirts fresh from the laundry room and hanging in my closet ready to go you can’t tell from...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Friday In Paris Before It All Starts

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Friday in Paris before it all starts is media day at the French Open tennis tournament and then play begins Sunday but on media day pla...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

“I’m Against It”

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I don’t know what they have to say It makes no difference anyway Whatever it is I’m against it No matter what it is or who commenced ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Clouds Want To Be Close To Us

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Scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand analyzed the first 10 years of global cloud-top height measurements (from March 2...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Moon And Venus Beyond The Fox Point

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That is the donut shop at night over-exposed to get a good image of the Moon and Venus. When there’s a storm at night electric lights...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Drawings Stay Flat Falling Into Reality

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The things you don’t remember are the criterion of your madness. from “ Mimsy Were The Borogoves ” (from the great 1943 short story ...
Friday, May 18, 2012

A Sail Away Thing

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ANN DARROW: “What do I have to do?” CARL DENHAM: “Just trust me and keep your chin up!” It was a hand-shake deal. No memo. ...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Mandy Moore In Traffic

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I know a young woman who is careful and always crosses streets at a crosswalk. The last time I talked to this young woman she was sit...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Machines Of Loving Grace

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At the time, there was a general belief in the stability of natural systems. However cracks started to appear when a study was made of pr...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Forbidden Planet: An Introduction

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This is what the captain of a spaceship looks like. The beautiful woman knows he can protect her. That particular captain is protec...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Celebrity-Talk, And The Epistemology Of Hippie

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LITTLE PLASTIC DOLL: How many Taylor Swifts does it take to change a light bulb? RUBBER LIZARD: I’m not going to do this. Go away....
Friday, May 11, 2012

On The Edges Of A Dawn Chorus

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1. Noises in a Landscape On the edges of a dawn chorus the leading edge or the trailing edge just before all the birds start singing...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Some People Believe Monsters Don’t Exist

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I watched a film based on an old novel and I read a graphic novel version derived from the book, not based on the film. Both the movi...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Lost Images Of Lost Landscapes

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Among the elite and aristocratic classes, watercolor painting was one of the incidental adornments of a good education, especially for wo...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

It Shall Be So Madness Must Unwatched Go

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She frowned, and still frowning said, “Maybe hippie girls were gentle and pretty. But gentle and pretty hippie girls couldn’t make the...
Monday, May 07, 2012

Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ Ends In Disaster

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ELEANOR: (Flatly, from far away) Like any thinking person, I should like to think there was—I don’t care whose or which—some God. Not...
Friday, May 04, 2012

It’s A Photograph And This

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The Moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the Sun “ Timon Of Athens ” Shakespeare The Red Admiral is t...
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