December 2011
3 posts
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
WINTER B.S. 1960 — TUCSON AZ / 161
He plays golf. Your grandfather. Your grand-pappy. Golf. A golf man. Is my tone communicating the contempt? Billiards on a big table, Jim.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
WINTER B.S. 1960 — TUCSON AZ / 156
He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what?s around you.
Monday, June 13, 2011
3 NOVEMBER Y.A.D.U. / 148
How much time, after this realization sank in and spread among consumers (mostly via phone, interestingly), would any micro-econometrist expect to need to pass before high-tech visual videophony was mostly abandoned, then, a return to good old telephoning not only dictated by common consumer sense but actually after a while culturally approved as a kind of chic...
November 2011
9 posts
Monday, June 13, 2011
3 NOVEMBER Y.A.D.U. / 143
(1) It turned out that there was something terribly stressful about visual telephone interfaces that hadn’t been stressful at all about voice-only interfaces. Videophone consumers seemed suddenly to realize that they’d been subject to an insidious but wholly marvelous delusion about conventional voice-only telephony. They’d never noticed it before, the delusion — it’s...
Monday, June 13, 2011
3 NOVEMBER Y.A.D.U. / 214
The active, alert woman gave chase to the purse snatching “woman” for as long as she could, plaintively shouting to passers by the words “Stop her! She stole my heart!” on the fashionable sidewalk crowded with shoppers, reportedly shouting repeatedly, “She stole my heart, stop her!” In response to her plaintive calls, tragically, misunderstanding shoppers and...
Monday, June 13, 2011
3 NOVEMBER Y.A.D.U. / 139
In contrast, Captain Frank Furillo is what used to be designated a ‘post’-modern hero. Viz., a hero whose virtues are suited to a more complex and corporate American era. I.e., a hero of reaction. Captain Frank Furillo does not investigate cases or single-mindedly home in. He commands a precinct. He is a bureaucrat, and his heroism is bureaucratic, with a genius for...
Friday, June 10, 2011
30 APRIL — YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT / 126
I want to be like that. Able to just sit all quiet and pull life toward me, one forehead at a time.
Friday, June 10, 2011
3 NOVEMBER Y.A.D.U. / 118
“And what he says he says it’s about more than tennis, mein kinder. Mein kinder, well it sort of means my family. He eyeballs me right square in the eye and says it’s about how to reach down into parts of yourself you didn’t know were there and get down in there and live inside these parts. And the only way to get to them: sacrifice. Suffer. Deny. What are you...
Thursday, June 9, 2011
3 NOVEMBER Y.D.A.U. / 113
“He’s talking about developing the concept of tennis mastery,’ Chu tells the other three. They’re on the floor Indian-style, Wayne standing with his back against the door, rotating his head to stretch the neck. ‘His point is that progress towards genuine Show-caliber mastery is slow, frustrating. Humbling. A question of less talent than temperament.” “Is this right...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT / 79
THE MAN WHO KNOWS HIS LIMITATIONS HAS NONE.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
3 NOVEMBER — YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT / 59
I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams’ form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares’ very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it’s just been . .. overlooked; and then that horrific...
Monday, June 6, 2011
YEAR OF THE DEPEND ADULT UNDERGARMENT / 52
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.