Thursday, March 11, 2010

not quite everyone in california has broadband, already ...









sometimes it takes ages ( six or seven years ! ) for small visual memories to condense among my vapid reveries and then trickle down as proto-thoughts ... and then it takes another age to articulate them

i'd been looking at a favourite picture ( found on a NASA website ) of racetrack playa by night and was wondering exactly where it is

annoyingly, i discovered that we had once passed within a few miles

and once upon that time, on the high desert pass between the panamint valley and the owens valley, miles from anywhere, i had been startled to see a yellow school bus bumping along a dusty side road amongst the last straggly joshua trees

today i looked at google earth because i am always curious about the improbable places where people might choose to live, especially so far from the comforts of urban life ...
















... and i found that dusty road again, and discovered it leads to Darwin, CA ... and thereabouts must dwell the designer of this jolly little website






http://www.darwincalif.com/

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

of parchments and palimpsests ...
























i've already pointed out to the loved one that ... if ever there is a world shortage of writing paper, then the lily-white skin of women as fair and unblemished as her divine self will be at a premium for incurable scribblers like me

http://www.scientific-computing.com/features/feature.php?feature_id=125

Monday, March 8, 2010

not much going on at the spreadeagle in wandsworth

picture taken whilst i was trying to finish reading a couple more chapters of "my name is red" by orhan pamuk, a master story teller

i'd been reading it on the bus and thought i might be more comfortable in this sadly dilapidated pub