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I swear I didn't know a thing | Sunset blvd.
I swear I didn't know a thing | Sunset blvd.
South LA evening
Nathanael West: from The Day of the Locust
Although Homer had nothing to do but prepare his scanty meals, he was not
bored. Except for the Romola Martin incident and perhaps one or two other
widely spaced events, the forty years of his life had been entirely
without variety or excitement. As a bookkeeper, he had worked
mechanically, totaling figures and making entries with the same
impersonal detachment that he now opened cans of soup and made his bed.
One day, while opening a can of salmon for lunch, his thumb received a
nasty cut. Although the wound must have hurt, the calm, slightly
querulous expression he usually wore did not change. The wounded hand
writhed about on the kitchen table until it was carried to the sink by
its mate and bathed tenderly in hot water.
When not keeping house, he sat in the back yard, called the patio by the
real estate agent, in an old broken deck chair. He went out to it
immediately after breakfast to bake himself in the sun. In one of the
closets he had found a tattered book and he held it in his lap without
looking at it.
There was a much better view to be had in any direction other than the
one he faced. By moving his chair in a quarter circle he could have seen
a large part of the canyon twisting down to the city below. He never
thought of making this shift. From where he sat, he saw the closed door
of the garage and a patch of its shabby, tarpaper roof. In the foreground
was a sooty, brick incinerator and a pile of rusty cans. A little to the
right of them were the remains of a cactus garden in which a few ragged,
tortured plants still survived.
One of these, a clump of thick, paddlelike blades, covered with ugly
needles, was in bloom. From the tip of several of its topmost blades
protruded a bright yellow flower, somewhat like a thistle blossom but
coarser. No matter how hard the wind blew, its petals never trembled. A
lizard lived in a hole near the base of this plant. It was about five
inches long and had a wedge-shaped head from which darted a fine, forked
tongue. It earned a hard living catching the flies that strayed over to
the cactus from the pile of cans.
The lizard was self-conscious and irritable, and Homer found it very
amusing to watch. Whenever one of its elaborate stalks were foiled, it
would shift about uneasily on its short legs and puff out its throat. Its
coloring matched the cactus perfectly, but when it moved over to the cans
where the flies were thick, it stood out very plainly. It would sit on
the cactus by the hour without moving, then become impatient and start
for the cans. The flies would spot it immediately and after several
misses, it would sneak back sheepishly to its original post.
Homer was on the side of the flies. Whenever one of them, swinging too
widely, would pass the cactus, he prayed silently for it to keep on going
or turn back. If it lighted, he watched the lizard begin its stalk and
held his breath until it had killed, hoping all the while that something
would warn the fly. But no matter how much he wanted the fly to escape,
he never thought of interfering, and was careful not to budge or make the
slightest noise. Occasionally the lizard would miscalculate. When that
happened Homer would laugh happily.
Between the sun, the lizard and the house, he was fairly well occupied.
But whether he was happy or not it is hard to say. Probably he was
neither, just as a plant is neither. He had memories to disturb him and a
plant hasn't, but after the first bad night his memories were quiet.
Nathanael West (1903-1940): from The Day of the Locust (1939)
The Day of the Locust (1939), front cover: image by Drown Soda, 2013
Blue 657 Dingbat [LA]
Postcard granite [Joshua Tree, CA]
hi there cute little four eyed fella (wonder which one is looking at me now) crawling through the desert on retractable legs will you take me home?
The U.S. military tests new technologies during the Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2018 at Camp Pendleton, California: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 28 March 2018
Ever
feel like a test subject in a giant experiment intended to bring about
the extermination of all life!!? Me
Too!!
the worse crime is having no sense of humour!: tweet via Boy George @BoyGeorge, 27 March 2018
Criança come um sanduíche dentro de uma ambulância, enquanto civis e rebeldes sírios removidos da região de Ghouta Oriental chegam à cidade de Qalaat al-Madiq, após um acordo entre a facção rebelde Faylaq al-Rahman e a Rússia, aliada do governo sírio. Por @omar_hajkadour #Síria: image via AFP Brasil @AFPBrasil, 7:47 AM 28 March 2018
A wounded boy sits in an #ambulance in Qalaat al-Madiq after being evacuated from #EasternGhouta with thousands of other residents @AFPphoto @omar_hajkadour #Syria: image via AFP Beirut @AFPBeirut, 8:19 AM 28 March 2018
Pour les évacués de la Ghouta, un voyage épuisant dans une Syrie divisée par @omar_hajkadour #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @afpfr, 27 March 2018
They left eastern #Ghouta to the new land with their dreams and their laughter.: image via Zein Al-Rifaii @ZeinAlRifai, 1:18 PM, 28 March 2018
At around 11:48 today, the heavily populated residential area of Kafr Baytna (Eastern Ghouta) was struck by incendiary munitions dropped by two Su-22 aircraft that took off between 11:34 and 11:43 from Dumayr airbase. 61 people have been killed (burned alive) and + 200 injured.: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef, 16 March 2018
At around 11:48 today, the heavily populated residential area of Kafr Baytna (Eastern Ghouta) was struck by incendiary munitions dropped by two Su-22 aircraft that took off between 11:34 and 11:43 from Dumayr airbase. 61 people have been killed (burned alive) and + 200 injured.: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef, 16 March 2018
At around 11:48 today, the heavily populated residential area of Kafr Baytna (Eastern Ghouta) was struck by incendiary munitions dropped by two Su-22 aircraft that took off between 11:34 and 11:43 from Dumayr airbase. 61 people have been killed (burned alive) and + 200 injured.: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef, 16 March 2018
#Syria Scenes from the Eastern #Ghouta town of Hazzeh today.: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 7:32 AM 26 March 2018
#Syria Scenes from the Eastern #Ghouta town of Hazzeh today.: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 7:32 AM 26 March 2018
#Syria Scenes from the Eastern #Ghouta town of Hazzeh today.: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 7:32 AM 26 March 2018
Funerals began in Kemerovo, Russia, for the 64 people, most of them children, whose deaths in a blaze at a Siberian shopping mall have roused public anger over official corruption and incompetence.: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 28 March 2018
Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju, and Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan pose for a photo during the North Korean leader's 'unofficial' visit to Beijing.: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 28 March 2018
Justin SullivanVerified account @sullyfoto
Stevante
Clark, brother of #StephonClark, taunts Sacramento @MayorSteinberg as he disrupts a
city council meeting at #Sacramento City Hall. The special council
meeting was held to address the killing of…
Liz Kreutz Retweeted Justin SullivanLiz Kreutz added,
Stephon Clark's brother tells @FrancesWangTV he is sorry for his behavior Wednesday night towards @MayorSteinberg: "I owe that man an apology"
image via Liz Kreutz @ABCLiz, 8:41 PM 28 March 2018
#BLACKLIVESMATTER protesters continue to demonstrate on the streets of #sacramento to demand justice for the killing of #stephonclark by SacPolice @GettyImagesNews: image via Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 6:46 PM 28 March 2018
#BLACKLIVESMATTER protesters continue to demonstrate on the streets of #sacramento to demand justice for the killing of #stephonclark by SacPolice @GettyImagesNews: image via Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 6:46 PM 28 March 2018
#BLACKLIVESMATTER protesters continue to demonstrate on the streets of #sacramento to demand justice for the killing of #stephonclark by SacPolice @GettyImagesNews: image via Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 6:46 PM 28 March 2018
#BLACKLIVESMATTER protesters continue to demonstrate on the streets of #sacramento to demand justice for the killing of #stephonclark by @SacPolice @GettyImagesNews: image via Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 6:46 PM 28 March 2018
Mourners become emotional during the wake for #stephonclark, who was shot and killed by @SacPolice, a day before funeral services will be held.: image via Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 2:25 PM 28 March 2018
Mourners become emotional during the wake for #stephonclark, who was shot and killed by @SacPolice, a day before funeral services will be held.: image via Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 2:25 PM 28 March 2018
Stevante Clark, brother of #StephonClark, disrupts a city council meeting at #Sacramento City Hall. The special council meeting was held to address the killing of Stephon Clark by @SacPolice #BlackLivesMatter @GettyImagesNews: image via Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 5:38 PM 27 March 2018
Sequita Thompson, (C) grandmother of #StephonClark who was shot and killed by @SacPolice, cries during a news conference with civil rights attorney Ben Crump. The Clark family has hired Crump to represent them in their wrongful death suit #BlackLivesMatter @GettyImagesNews: image via Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 26 March 2018
Stevante Clark stands on a desk as he shouts the name of his brother Stephon Clark, who was fatally shot by police a week earlier, during a Sacramento City Council meeting, yesterday in Sacramento, Calif. | Photo Rich Pedroncelli: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 8:11 AM 28 March 2018
A man tosses a bouquet of flowers on to a religious float during the Jesus of Nazareth procession from La Merced church, in downtown Guatemala City, Tuesday, March 27, 2018.: image via Moises Castilo @moises1975, 27 March 2018
#Russia Paratroopers sit on a bench outside a polling station in Stavropol during Russia’s presidential election. Danil Semyonov @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 27 March 2018
JERUSALEM - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men dip their cooking utensils in boiling water to remove remains of leaven as they prepare for the Jewish holiday of Pesach (Passover) Photo @menahemkahana #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 11:00 PM 28 March 2018
GAZA STRIP - A Palestinian child stands behind hanging laundry on the window of his family's home in Beit Hanun. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10:00 AM 28 March 2018
#Nicaragua Catholic faithful carry the image of the "Jesus of the Great Power" during a procession on Holy Week, at La Merced church in Granada Photo @intiocon #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 8:00 AM 28 March 2018
GAZA CITY - A Palestinian woman herds sheep near the Gaza-Israel border. Photo @MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4:00 AM 28 March 2018
#Colombia Boy members of the Nazarenos brotherhood wait to participate in the Jesus Nazareno children's procession in Zipaquira. #AFP Photo by @locostacastro: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4:00 AM 28 March 2018: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 27 March 2018
Penitents take part in the procession of Los Gitanos brotherhood during #HolyWeek in Malaga, Spain Photo: Daniel Perez Garcia-Santos: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 26 March 2018
Penitents
from the 'El Rescatado' brotherhood leave Padres de Gracia Church as
they start a procession during Palm Sunday in Cordoba, Spain
Photo: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 26 March 2018
#USA United States Patrolling the Texas-Mexico border. Photo @Lelliottphoto: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9:41 AM 28 March 2018
#USA United States
Patrolling the Texas-Mexico border. Photo @Lelliottphoto: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9:41 AM 28 March 2018
#USA United States Patrolling the Texas-Mexico border. Photo @Lelliottphoto: image via : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4:00 AM 28 March 2018: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 27 March 2018AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9:41 AM 28 March 2018 image via : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4:00 AM 28 March 2018: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 27 March 2018AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 9:41 AM 28 March 2018
Stan Ridgway & Wall Of Voodoo: FUNZONE (live at the US Festival, San Bernadino, Memorial Day 1983). A track left off WOV's '82 masterpiece "Call Of The West".
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