Category Archives: ancient history
calling me my secret name: Aporia Press's Thomas Tany booklet from 1988
First tried to buy this in 1998; found a hardbound copy in Bobst Library (before it became a suicide magnet) after reading Christopher Hill’s The World Turned Upside Down and knew by instinct I needed my own. Aporia Press did … Continue reading
droppin in on dighton rock
Dighton Rock– centuries old and covered in mysterious scrawls of unknown origin. Trapped beneath the Taunton River for most of existence, it was raised in the 1960s. The museum was built in the early 1970s. 18th and 19th Century drawings … Continue reading
a catalogue of misery
Union Square in 1905, looking towards 33 & 31 Union Square West. The block remains much unchanged. I lived in 31 for about a year, before leaving under a black cloud. SF writer Thomas M. Disch lived on the top … Continue reading
any special desire
From the Abyss comes Chorozon.
Insanity from Above, Filth from Below: A Freaked-Out Report on the San Diego Comic Con 2008
Last summer, when I attended the San Diego Comic Con, I was struck by its blankness– there was literally nothing that required photography and nothing, after the cease of the spectacle, that was worth remembering. My sum total of purchases … Continue reading
thoughts on the odyssey and the cattle of helios
The Book Gods have interrupted my jaunty 19th Century kick– forcing a repeat engagement with the Odyssey of Homer. This is the fourth or fifth reading and the only time that I’ve liked it. I suspect that this has something … Continue reading