tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post215367302924445186..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Glass BoxUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45541486630966671072013-03-16T08:02:02.505-07:002013-03-16T08:02:02.505-07:00I did wonder at seeing Mark E Smith had recognized...I did wonder at seeing Mark E Smith had recognized Birmingham as part of the North. But then one does at times get the impression that as with New York, though not geographically central, London is often perceived to be the centre, not only of a certain country, but of a (phantasmal) universe. By which perception, accordingly, Pennsylvania, for example, would become a part of that vast vague geographical agglomeration called "The West" -- and Birmingham, thus, by a similar sort of flat-earth-ish pseudo-logic, a part of "the North".<br /><br />Vassilis, I did manage to find some photos of the buses in question, but as they appeared to be less out-of-the-ordinary than the shelter (and indeed quite similar to the conveyances we have seen in a number of Wooden Boy's engaging Bus Notes), I thought perhaps to vary the style and circumstances of virtual transport just a bit, today:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/raymond-queneau-man-with-long-neck-on.html" rel="nofollow">Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style: Man with long neck on bus</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17522429306781253852013-03-15T15:29:23.713-07:002013-03-15T15:29:23.713-07:00I've seen plenty more less inviting bus shelte...I've seen plenty more less inviting bus shelters than this one but there's still one two-pronged question running through my mind: What do the buses look like and do they run on time?vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51662446903146287792013-03-15T15:20:22.050-07:002013-03-15T15:20:22.050-07:00the condensation dotted transparent walls
Sharp/w...the condensation dotted transparent walls<br /><br />Sharp/wiry sound, very direct, almost hurting<br /><br />Ice and unbreathed air the stillness<br />like a bubble frozen a little observatory<br />two lit dials a clock a speedometer<br /><br />Each image dropped in - ineluctable - before night hits.<br /><br />Being a Fall obsessive from the age of thirteen, I took great pleasure in the link. Good to see Birmingham showing up on the painted map, though there'd be many, locals included, who wouldn't see us as Northern. <br /><br />We're not Southerners, of that much I'm sure.<br />Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20222194449902581212013-03-15T14:56:39.791-07:002013-03-15T14:56:39.791-07:00...but in case anyone cares, the inspiration here ......but in case anyone cares, the inspiration here came from:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzivmOQWkVQ" rel="nofollow">Hit the North</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88693265401005011532013-03-15T12:27:46.384-07:002013-03-15T12:27:46.384-07:00And speaking of injections -- here's a wee bit...And speaking of injections -- here's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUQEK9L0ZJ0" rel="nofollow">a wee bit of fiddling in Baltasound Hall on Saturday night</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56235569847739186202013-03-15T11:53:20.714-07:002013-03-15T11:53:20.714-07:00Thanks, friends.
Always good to start off the day...Thanks, friends.<br /><br />Always good to start off the day at the bus shelter with a "cosmologic problem"!<br /><br />(Who could say no to a problem that has both logic and the cosmos in it -- the ultimate strange bedfellows.)<br /><br />I've heard it said that Norwegians who can't afford a Mediterranean holiday make do with a weekend in Unst.<br /><br />A welcome injection to the economy, but nothing compared with the erstwhile profits from herring.<br /><br />Though perhaps to a near-sighted denizen a vacationing Norwegian might appear to be a tall two-legged herring.<br /><br />(Cold fish are cold fish, after all.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76805716928416482042013-03-15T10:15:38.507-07:002013-03-15T10:15:38.507-07:00Tom,
Wonderful photos, kind of a scary poem -- han...Tom,<br />Wonderful photos, kind of a scary poem -- hang in there!<br /><br />3.15<br /><br />light coming into cloud above blackness<br />of ridge, song sparrow calling in field<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> “cosmologic problem,” since<br /> first red shift lines<br /><br /> form of field corresponding,<br /> of matter, that which<br /><br />grey white fog against invisible ridge,<br />circular green pine on tip of sandspit<br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29803666322669666622013-03-15T09:06:29.511-07:002013-03-15T09:06:29.511-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dalriadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004167335881293080noreply@blogger.com