July 2009
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Salt Peanuts
Photo courtesy of .Bala on Flickr.
Song, ‘Salt Peanuts,’ by Dizzy Gillespie and performed by The Quintent on their album Jazz at Massey Hall, 1953.
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet | Charlie Parker, saxophone | Bud Powell, piano | Charles Mingus, Bass | Max Roach, drums
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La Grippé
Photo courtesy of bloomgal on Flickr.
Song, ‘La Grippé’ by James ‘Jimbo’ Mathus and performed by the Squirrel Nut Zippers on March 22, 1997. Recording from the EP Sold Out.
Jimbo Mathis, guitar & vocals | Tom Maxwell, guitar & vocals | Katherine Whalen, banjo | Ken Mosher, saxophone | Chris Phillips, drums | Stu Cole, bass | Je Witenhouse, trupmet
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The Cinnamon Peeler
If I were a cinnamon peeler
I would ride your bed
and leave the yellow bark dust
on your pillow.
Your breasts and shouldres would reek
you could never walk through markets
without the profession of my fingers
floating over you. The blind would s
tumble certain of whom they approached
though you might bathe
under rain gutters, monsson.
Here on the upper thigh
at this smooth pasture...
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Taking off
‘Space Travel’ by John Polgreen. Find more great science ficiton artwork at Sci-Fi-O-Rama.
Vintage science ficiton short stories continue next week with Larry Niven’s, ‘My Mind Alone’.
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Photo by sir watkyn on Flickr.
Unkown song performed by Keith Jarrett’s European Quartet live in Hanover, Germany; March, 1974.
Keith Jarrett, piano | Jan Garbarek, saxaphone | Palle Danielsson, bass | Jon Christensen, drums
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Abroad
— Thomas Crase. Abroad. New York: Marcus Ward & Co, 1884.
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Whitey on the Moon
Photo courtesy of NASA.
Song, ‘Whitey on the Moon,’ written and performed by Gil Scott Heron on his 1970 record Small Talk at 125th and Lenox.
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Photo courtesy of Augapfel on Flickr.
The Thousandth Birthday Party Durant Imboden, first published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction, December, 1966.
part 6
“I thought that bit a bout one of them glowing was all a publicity gimmick,” one of the other officials said wonderingly. “Luke, I thought they just let someone go every few millions times to keep everyone’s hopes...
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The fact is, neuroscientists cannot explain how the brain carries out the most elementary acts of cognition - for example, how I know the person lying beside me when I wake each morning is my wife. Some prominent scientists and philosophers have reluctantly predicted that the explanatory gap will never be closed. Even if neuroscientists crack the neural code, so that they can determine precisely...
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Assev Vif - Tres Rhythme
Photo courtesy of Tadson on Flickr.
Song, ‘Assev Vif - Tres Rhythme’ composed by Ravel; arranged and performed on the Rick McLaughlin Trio record, Study of Light, 2002.
Rick McLaughlin, bass | Greg Burk, piano | Jeremy Udden, saxaophone
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Gliding Over All
GLIDING o’er all, through all, Through Nature, Time, and Space, As a ship on the waters advancing, The voyage of the soul—not life alone, Death, many deaths I’ll sing.
— Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. 1891-1892.
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Forest Knoll
Photo courtesy of cheesyfinger2k1 from Flickr.
Song “Forest Knoll,” by John Vanderslice as perfomed at WERS June 14, 2009.
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Souvenirs of Democracy
THE business man, the acquirer vast, After assiduous years, surveying results, preparing for departure, Devises houses and lands to his children—bequeaths stocks, goods—funds for a school or hospital, Leaves money to certain companions to buy tokens, souvenirs of gems and gold; Parceling out with care—And then, to prevent all cavil, His name to his testament formally signs. But I, my...
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Photo courtesy of mknowles from Flickr.
The Thousandth Birthday Party Durant Imboden, first published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction, December, 1966.
part 5
The official had just unlocked the bin. He stuck his arm down into the Ping-pong balls, up to his shoulder, and stirred them around quite thoroughly.
“What are the odds today?” Carr asked, trying to sound light-hearted...
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Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development. How they are produced and changed in our society critically affects the way we see the state of the world as it is and might be; who decides these questions; and how we, as societies and polities, come to understand what can and ought to be done. For more than 150 years, modern complex democracies have depended...
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Hey Harold
Photo, ‘Kool Aid,’ by antonfortunato on Flickr.
Song, ‘Hey Harold,’ by Bobby Hutherson and performed by his big band on July 3, 1971. Previously unissued, this song is now a bonus track on Hutcherson’s Head On album.
Bobby Hutcherson, vibes & marimba | Oscar Brashear, tumpet & flugelhorn | George Bohanon, trombone | Harold Land, tenor sax &...
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To One Shortly to Die
1 FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you: You are to die—Let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate, I am exact and merciless, but I love you—There is no escape for you. Softly I lay my right hand upon you—you just feel it, I do not argue—I bend my head close, and half envelope it, I sit quietly by—I remain faithful, I am more than nurse, more than parent or...
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Photo courtesy of Alex Drum on Flickr.
Song by...
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Germs
FORMS, qualities, lives, humanity, language, thoughts, The ones known, and the ones unknown—the ones on the stars, The stars themselves, some shaped, others unshaped, Wonders as of those countries—the soil, trees, cities, inhabitants, whatever they may be, Splendid suns, the moons and rings, the countless combinations and effects; Such-like, and as good as such-like, visible here or...
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Photo courtesy of espylaub on Flickr.
The Thousandth Birthday Party Durant Imboden, first published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction, December, 1966.
part 4
“Ogie.”
“Yes, darling?”
“Ogie, honey. I’m very worried about the party. What if you don’t win the lottery?”
“I think thet answer to that question is fairly obvious, Helen. And I...
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By what criteria should we judge our interfaces? If the interface medium is indeed headed toward the breadth and complexity of genuine art, then we are going to need new language to describe it, a new critical vocabulary. Some of this language will rise up sui generis out of the new technologies, but most of it will borrow extensively from preexisting traditions: art and architecture, the cinema...
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I'm an Old Cowhand
Photo courtesy of actualmatthew on Flickr.
Song, ‘I’m an Old Cowhand,’ by Johnny Mercer. Performed here by Sonny Rollins’ 1957 record, Way Out West.
Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone | Ray Brown, bass | Shelly Manne, drums
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Thoughts
1 OF ownership—As if one fit to own things could not at pleasure enter upon all, and incorporate them into himself or herself. 2 Of waters, forests, hills; Of the earth at large, whispering through medium of me; Of vista—Suppose some sight in arriere, through the formative chaos, presuming the growth, fulness, life, now attain’d on the journey; (But I see the road continued, and the journey...
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“On July 18, 1972, an Amtrak train moving interstate through Oklahoma, was...”
– 490 F.2d 572