German Shepard Duchess. January, 1957.
German Shepard Duchess. January, 1957.
13Floor: Part 1 of 87
Last year I purchased a “Lifetime Access” subscription to Elegant Themes, a collection of 87 WordPress themes intended to characterize a variety of content niches and categories. This suite of themes appears to target independent web developers who do not necessarily possess graphic design skills but who need a stable of ready-made themes that they can use to quickly develop credible looking sites with buzzword compliance (mobile friendly, responsive, SEO…). For a time I kind of regretted the expense. The existential angst...
read moreListening: Scriabin Sonata #2, Sviatoslav Richter
This track captures the directionless of my life as it existed in 2002 and 2003, and again in 2015. It is an ambling, rambling piece of music, sleepily performed with no particular color or determination by Sviatoslav Richter. I listened to this track over and over when my bedroom was my office and this living room where I work today was mostly empty. Early Scriabin is a puzzle waiting for its solution in Piano Sonata...
read moreFork In Soup
You cannot eat soup with a fork. I repeat: You cannot eat soup with a fork. Most soups, that is. If stew is considered a soup then beef or tripe/menudo stews could be considered a soup that one could consume with a fork as the broth is ingested via pouring the bowl into your mouth. For the most part, however, forks should not appear in soup, as in this photograph.
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I did not set out to walk all the way from Astoria to the Freedom Tower on this day but that is what happened. Here are a few photos of a small number of people I saw along the way. Something happened in Tribeca that happened a surprising number of times within a period of a few days. Someone asked me to take their picture, and I demurred. I did not outright refuse to do it, I just acted like I didn’t hear the request. Every single time I wished later that I had done it. in Tribeca it was a yellow cab driver who asked “ARE YOU A...
read moreTerribles
The 13th floor is traditionally skipped in most modern high rises. This is on account of the enduring superstitious belief that the number 13 is unlucky, and that being on a 13th floor spells certain doom. This Elegant Theme is titled 13Floor, suggesting its intended use is for spooky stuff like Halloween content or ghost stories. The closest experience I had to a genuine ghost story came in the days after my grandmother died. I do not recall specifics at the moment but her death from heart attack occurred in the late 1980s, during college...
read moreEmail to T
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:52:11 -0400 (EDT) From: mark thomas <****@sorabji.com> To: T <*****@gmail.com> Subject: Re: One Guy spent the 1960s & 70s Collecting Paper Airplanes off the Streets of NYC Wow. Just, wow. If I think I know anything about Matthew and his lack of ambition it might go back to things he told me years ago, about how he owes 6-figures in student loans and has some people who might still be after him on account of bad work he did for them when he was a lawyer. And then there’s his ex-wife. He told me...
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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 16:40:42 -0400 (EDT) From: mark thomas <*****@sorabji.com> To: *****@gmail.com Subject: Last Call… Parts/Attachments: 1 Shown 39 lines Text 2 OK 7.2 MB Image —————————————- I had half a mind just now to register the domain name you said you let expire, to see if you’d notice and get at least a chuckle. I’ll not follow through with that, though it sounds like something you might have appreciated in bygone years. I...
read moreHey
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:08:09 -0400 (EDT) From: sorabji <*****@sorabji.com> To: “*****@yahoo.com” <*****@yahoo.com> Subject: Hey I was sorry to hear about your mom. I hope the circumstances were peaceful. Take care of yourself. Hope to see you soon. -mt
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