FABULOSE, noun: the spongy, puffy social tissue filled with tiny bubbles of hot air and styrofoam packing ‘monads.” It thrives on a fertile compost of book reviews, celebrity talk-shows, workplace performance evaluations, and classroom assessments. If dissected in a bright rational light, it shrivels instantly, then melts into brown, foul-smelling droplets.
Found, in a “push page” email advertising performances at Joe’s Pub: “chilly Teutonic electronica.” And, on a cast-iron, waffle-top water main cover just off Flatbush Avenue and St. Marks: “Catskill Water Gate.”
Father Sol, Up Close & Personal
Just after Earth Day, it’s useful to remember that Gaia has a partner infinitely more powerful and mysterious than she is. Check out the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s just released video of the sun flaring up, and looking mildly pissed off. (This is an amazing new NASA project.)
Was it something we said?
Just heard a piece on National Public Radio about Arab- and Iranian-Americans who’ve launched a campaign to write in their affiliation on the “Other” line of the U.S. Census Form. The point being that if you’re not counted, you don’t “count.”
Should we have launched a similar campaign for the LGBT “ethnicity”? I’m thinking yes. You?
Couple on Palantine Hill rest and read guidebook.
La Piccola Principessa enthroned amidst the ruins.
Another couple on the Palantine Hill; girl looks up.
Bird, Jamaica Bay
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