University of California Press
2013
Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
NOT A TEDDY BEAR ~
"The iPhone may cause broken bones and concussions. Yes, I’m leaving out a few in-between steps there.
So let me start over: Craig Palsson, a graduate student in the Yale economics department, argues in a new paper that the expansion of the 3G cellphone network led to more widespread adoption of the iPhone, which led to parents who discovered new apps and continual email on their cellphone; which led to parents who paid attention to their new toys at playgrounds and not necessarily to their small children; which led to 10 percent more accidents for those children from 2005 to 2012, including broken bones and concussions."
So let me start over: Craig Palsson, a graduate student in the Yale economics department, argues in a new paper that the expansion of the 3G cellphone network led to more widespread adoption of the iPhone, which led to parents who discovered new apps and continual email on their cellphone; which led to parents who paid attention to their new toys at playgrounds and not necessarily to their small children; which led to 10 percent more accidents for those children from 2005 to 2012, including broken bones and concussions."
DEAN KARLAN
NEW YORK TIMES
11 Nov 14
MUCH LOVED ~
Much Loved
photographs by Mark Nixon
Abrams, 2013
you probably owned one, once upon a time . . .
you probably owned one, once upon a time . . .
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
JANIS BALTVILKS ~
The avenue decked with colorful-leaves
will prevent you from getting lost —
it will take you straight into winter.
PROOF
A handful of marigold seeds
and the feather of a finch
on my table:
the summer
really was here.
Rain on the windowsill.
Finally!
The grass and trees exult,
and the parched
tips of my nerves.
A lonely heron
high up in the autumn sky. . .
Lonely because it's so high?
High up because it's lonely?
A sprout
pierces last year's leaf.
I'm not sorry for the leaf.
I like the leaf.
And I like the sprout.
I was once a sprout.
Now I'm a leaf.
The wind
when it murmurs in the leaves
it murmurs like the wind.
The wind when it laughs
it laughs like the wind.
When it cries
it cries like a human child.
Everything in this world
cried like a human child.
I still cannot tell the difference between
a new wind and an old one.
A car abandoned in the woods
begs for forgiveness . . .
The moss is the first to draw near.
ABOUT BIRDS
No, not all of them will fly away.
Surely a jay,
a magpie, a pair of nuthatches,
a flock of chickadees in the garden
will stay here,
helping us
get through the winter.
A yellow birch leaf
floats away in the black water . . .
Do I ever want
to know and understand everything?
_________________
JANIS BALTVILKS
The Skylark Will Come
translated by Rita Laima Berzins
Poems 1990-2002
Blackberry Books 2004
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
CORKING THE WOODSHED DOORWAY ~
Plugging up the woodshed so the
door won't close
8 November 2014
photos 2014 © bob arnold
Monday, November 10, 2014
BECKETT THE POET ~
"look in thine arse and write"
S a m u e l B e c k e t t
SAMUEL BECKETT THE COLLECTED POEMS OF SAMUEL BECKETT
edited by Sean Lawlor, John Pilling
Grove, 2012
Sunday, November 9, 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014
MY SWEETEST FRIEND ~
Honor
let me tell you one thing about suicide
if a loved one has the guts or the heartbreak
to pull this off, you better have the same to
say this is how it all ended
even if you argue with her or him in your mind
every day as you bake bread
rake leaves
drive to work
return library books
tie your shoes
walk a cross walk
mail a letter
split wood
and try to sing in the shower again
__________________
My Sweetest Friend by Bob Arnold
Longhouse 2014
72 pages, perfect bound, 5.5 x 6.25 inches
$15
order here through Paypal, plus $2.00 s/h (US shipping only)
"It's so beautiful and for the first time in my life I truly feel the umbilical chord double helix of life and death inseparable."
Donna Fleischer
Sherry, May 9, 2016
Friday, November 7, 2014
" 27 " ~
Forever 27 Club
Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse
'Now he's gone and joined that stupid club. I told him not to join that stupid club.'
Wendy O' Connor
Kurt Cobain's mother *
________________________
"Not a castaway or a waif, not a raftsman or a whale fisherman, Thoreau (1817-1862)
was a Harvard graduate, the son of a mildly successful pencil manufacturer
in Concord, Massachusetts, who, after floundering a bit, at the age of
twenty-seven"
27
"built himself a ten-by-fifteen foot cabin of pine logs and
"built himself a ten-by-fifteen foot cabin of pine logs and
secondhand boards beside Walden Pond and lived there alone
for twenty-six months, raising much of his own food.
This was not then a cliche, though twentieth-century back-to-the-landers
have sometimes threatened to make it so.
Like George Orwell, the great English essayist, a hundred years later—
an Eton boy who chose an urban form of self-denial while
"down and out in Paris and London"— Thoreau was seeking
special insight from a stripped-down existence. Both men were radicals,
but Thoreau was after rapture, not social realism. Both were essayists
but Thoreau in his rash and roosterly optimism is quintessentially
American."
EDWARD HOAGLAND About H.D. Thoreau (1991)
* 27,
A history of the 27 club
by Howard Sounes
Da Capo, 2014
A history of the 27 club
by Howard Sounes
Da Capo, 2014
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
THE BARK CANOE ~
The Bark Canoe and Skin Boats of North America
Smithsonian Institute, 1964
Once In Vermont Films
2014 © bob arnold
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
REMEMBERING A NATURAL WANDERER ~
L. M. Kit Carson, in 1991, was a script doctor and an advice-giver for young filmmakers
Credit
The Dallas Morning News
L. M. KIT CARSON
1941 ~ 2014
Monday, November 3, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
Friday, October 31, 2014
APPLE OF OUR EYE ~
Emily Dickinson's gravesite
w/ family members
Amherst, MA.
20 October 2014
photo 2014 © bob arnold
Thursday, October 30, 2014
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