blog.kobek.com: the wonderful and frightening world of jarett kobek » turismo http://blog.kobek.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:39:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 sometimes the lamest photo is also the best http://blog.kobek.com/2009/11/14/sometimes-the-lamest-photo-is-also-the-best/ http://blog.kobek.com/2009/11/14/sometimes-the-lamest-photo-is-also-the-best/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:55:31 +0000 Jarett Kobek http://blog.kobek.com/?p=3604 he'll give you breathing holes and you'll think you're happy

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Then we went to the House of the Seven Gables…

…and did you like it?

–

P.S. Yeah, I know. Don’t worry.

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Gavur Izmir

Infidel Izmir.

The Family Seat & The Place of Blood.

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From the Abyss comes Chorozon.

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it's not right & it's not fair

we come together to celebrate mevlana

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well come to lalish

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…Mahluk, please.

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spill the blood, let it run unto me

]]> http://blog.kobek.com/2009/04/22/the-lathe-of-heaven/feed/ 0 how to power an American laptop in coastal Turkey http://blog.kobek.com/2009/04/19/how-to-power-an-american-laptop-in-coastal-turkey/ http://blog.kobek.com/2009/04/19/how-to-power-an-american-laptop-in-coastal-turkey/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:20:16 +0000 Jarett Kobek http://blog.kobek.com/?p=3171 how we do, do we how

]]> http://blog.kobek.com/2009/04/19/how-to-power-an-american-laptop-in-coastal-turkey/feed/ 0 C U in Diyarbakir http://blog.kobek.com/2009/04/14/c-u-in-diyarbakir/ http://blog.kobek.com/2009/04/14/c-u-in-diyarbakir/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:32:14 +0000 Jarett Kobek http://blog.kobek.com/?p=3164 All right, I’m out– gone to the Middle East.

Assuming I won’t have a chance to update, but could be wrong.

Back in May.

ami Dipjol koira dimu!

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A new view of Old Gomorrah: Alcatraz. Halloween 2008.

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original:

also:

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Everything is the same, nothing is new. The city as an unchanging entity. Or as W. Axl Rose once sang, way back before he had the therapy you’re soon to hear on Chinese Democracy, “The streets don’t change / but maybe the names.”

Speaking of forever changes: perhaps it is the undue influence of Dave Sim’s glamourpuss– which, despite a queasy veer towards sexism/misogynism/whatever in issue number two, is the best pamphlet comic of the last few years– but I have become increasingly fascinated by the photorealist newspaper strips of the 1940s/50s/60s. The volumes of Leonard Starr’s Mary Perkins on Stage available from Classic Comics are a step in the right direction, but in this era in which every minor cartoonish strip gets gorgeous hardcovers, can’t us decent folk get a little Rip Kirby?

Other things which require collection pronto: new, readable translations of Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese, Pat Tourett and Jenny Butterworth’s Tiffany Jones and Jorge Longeron’s Friday Foster. C’mon Comics Industry, get cracking!

Also, breaking news: the sweetest post ever. By… Warren Ellis?

]]> http://blog.kobek.com/2008/10/24/note-from-san-francisco/feed/ 0 in search of spook city, usa : hanton city, smithfield, rhode island http://blog.kobek.com/2008/08/12/in-search-of-spook-city-usa-hanton-city-smithfield-rhode-island/ http://blog.kobek.com/2008/08/12/in-search-of-spook-city-usa-hanton-city-smithfield-rhode-island/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:59:00 +0000 Jarett Kobek http://blog.kobek.com/?p=1016 Continue reading →]]> As we are wont to do, me and Andy Harrison got together and opted to journey towards one of the increasingly rare instances of Weird Garbage in Rhode Island which neither of us had previously visited; this turned out to be Hanton City in Smithfield. Directions from the Internet were awful and seemingly authored by drunken half-wits and cut-rate Englishmen, but we managed a sense of our intended destination.



The above map shows our point of entry: Lydia Ann Road off Douglas Pike, Route 7, in Smithfield. The thick red transparent line denotes the main route traveling through the woods; it quickly turns dirt. According to Topographical Maps and Internet Gossip, at some point it becomes Hanton City Trail. This is not to be mistaken with the other Hanton City Trail, an actual paved road that leads to nothing except Historical Cemetery 62 and ugly houses; there has been some confusion between Cemetery 62 and Cemetery 8, which I’ve put on the map. They’re different places. Same family name, though.

As of this writing, the satellite image on Google Maps is older than that of Live Maps. Thus, it lacks any trace of the dominant feature of my helpful illustration: the enormous new road and construction that has been driven straight through the woods. It is quite possible that this has eliminated much of Hanton City. The construction is visible here, sort of, but what we found was far more advanced and complete.

Our first mistake was in ever being born. Our second was in visiting the area on the hottest day of Summer. We’re talking about 99 to 101 degrees and me and Harrison wandering around in the woods, looking for a Spook City that may not even exist; it’s unclear if we found anything. There were a few walls and apparent foundations, but they were so covered in debris and tree branches that it’s difficult to ascertain if they represented the real Hanton City, or were just old stone fences left over from Halcyon Dayes of Yore. The low point of this sweating exhaustathon was, as may be inferred from my illustration, when I got the car stuck; we’re talking full on stuck, with me revving the engine and Harrison pushing the stupid thing and the wheels not getting traction on the gravel. There was a snow shovel in the trunk, so we managed to dig our way out of the predicament; again, this was in 100 degree heat. Madness set in and we wandered around for another two or so hours, finding little but trash.

The function of this post is twofold: to provide a better reference for people seeking out Spook City, and to reflect on how incredibly strange Rhode Island remains, even after decades of being in its thrall. It’s hard to imagine a place outside of early 80s computer RPGs where a person can hunt for a ruined city hidden in the woods while being three minutes away from relatively populated civilization and about ten from the state capital. Though some unsatisfactory attempts have been made, the remains an amazing book to be written (by someone other than me) that is a Weird New Jersey-esque tour up and down the Ocean State’s weird places and marvels. So. Get popping, someone.

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Back now. “Hollywood.” After 15 or 17 or 2000 days of travel– the original plan was a week long stay in Oregon with elly, purpose: a lovely wedding (not mine)– somehow, after the ceremony and gathering of folk and a delusional wander around Eugene in which a man uncovered the heretofore ignored works of Ross MacDonald and an astonishing mid-sixties copy of (our hero) Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, I ended up in San Francisco. Even this ballooned for extra days, the city unwilling to allow a release according to my improvized schedule. I am tired. I want to hide for a million years and yet things is mad tricky; I leave again Sunday and have stupid Plans for the current week. Life, like love, comes in spurts.

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A Late Nite Sojourn to The Old Stone Mill/Viking Tower of Newport, Rhode Island.

From the recent archives of the black magic wielder.

(Some say a witch.)

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George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal, Washington Heights, Manhattan, NY, December
21, 2007, 10:57PM:

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