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Off Balance
[Image by Jan Piller at redbubble.com. Click the image for the original/to purchase.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): Taking a walk with you lacking the wit and depth that inform our dreams’...
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Road-Seen
[Image: "Little Red Riding Hood," copyright Amanda Gray; all rights reserved. See original at her blog, what now] From whiskey river: Cutting Loose for James Dickey Sometimes from sorrow, for no...
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Transparent, or Just Unseen? Silent, or Just Unheard?
[About the image: one of several models of "bubble buildings" available from French firm BubbleTree. I originally found this written up at the DesignSwan site.] From whiskey river: A Suite of...
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“Basking in the Glow of an Imagined Future”
[Image: illustration from a December 20101 post, "The Time Travelling Brain," at the Neuroskeptic blog. The orange-highlighted region of the brain is apparently used both in remembering the past, and...
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A Question of “You”
[Video: opening of Qui êtes vous, Polly Maggoo? (Who Are You, Polly Magoo?) -- as Wikipedia says, "a 1966 French film directed by William Klein... a satirical art house movie spoofing the fashion...
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Cold. So Cold.
[Image: "ice-creeksicles," by Jeremy Hiebert. For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Winter Afternoon by the Lake Black trunks, black branches, and white...
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A Mansion Like No Other
[Image: artist's rendering of "Sea-Ty," a bowl-shaped floating-but-underwater city, open to the sky. The page where I found this image says that it "resembles a traditional hillside town with a...
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Mark This Moment
[Image: partial screen capture of a page at Google Books. The worker scanning the pages of The Coquette has allowed his or her gloved finger to be recorded for posterity.] From whiskey river...
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Missing the Point (or Nearly So)
[Image: "irony at BBworld," by user bionicteaching (Tom Woodward) at Flickr.com. Used under a Creative Commons license.] From whiskey river: West Wind (excerpt) You are young. So you know everything....
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Distant Cool Dark
[Video: "Composition Complete Track - Bossa 1," by Volkmar Studtrucker. See the note at the foot of this post for details.] From whiskey river: Impermanence is not just of philosophical interest. It’s...
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A Later Place
[Image: “The 1958 Edsel: Lousy Car but a Great Planter,” by Bill Barber (username “wdwbarber”) on Flickr. (Click to enlarge.) Used under a Creative Commons License.] From whiskey river: None of us can...
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Winter’s First Week
A bit of a changeup from the usual Friday routine here. Let’s start with a couple of things not from whiskey river (because, well, why not)… ...a song for winter PlayStop Popout X …and: Christmas...
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Please Continue. But Count on Interruptions.
[Video: “Stay Go,” by Robert Cray, from his album Shame and A Sin.] From whiskey river: You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and...
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Le Mot Exact
[Image: Cartoon by James Thurber, originally published in The New Yorker December 3, 1932. Caption there: “Touché!” One story about this drawing — I have no idea how accurate — says that the...
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Layers of Often, of Seldom, of Never
[Image: “127/365,” by Tom Wachtel. (Found on Flickr, used here under a Creative Commons license.) The caption provided by the photographer: “Yellow often shines in sparkling company. Red will almost...
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Even in the Heart of the Heart of Darkest Darkness
[Image: “Hide & Seek,” a photo by Marian Hilditch on Flickr. (Used here under a Creative Commons license.) The only information provided by the photographer: “I don’t know who those four looking...
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The Observer in the Observed
[Image: “Message From the Unseen World,” by Roger Marks; found on Flickr and used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). Click photo to enlarge. The photographer explains: “…this...
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Choosing the Self You Want to Know
[Image: “You Choose (autoretrato),” by Alberto Varela. (Found on Flickr; used here under a Creative Commons license — thank you!) The photographer says only that this self-portrait (Spanish: auto...
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Being Both Here and Beyond
[Image: ‘Circe,’ by user TheoJunior on Flickr; used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). About its subject, he caption supplied by the artist says only (and wryly), “Aeaean weaver,...
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Read the Hints, Come at Last
[Image: “Book Art,” by Blondinrikard Fröberg. Found on Flickr, naturally, and used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). The photo’s caption at Flickr says, only, “The window of the...
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