marionettes

Kept watch over the slack-jawed marionettes of 6am. A jerk here, a twitch there, a see saw sigh

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no doubt about it

all the mediocre pieces of shit out there will enrage you and conjure forth your own mediocre piece of shitness if you give in to the temptation to swipe and rail and rant and cuss…it's another face of greed, this desire to stamp out the appalling competition for mental space and achievement. it will happen,…

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Smaller

Religion etc exercises in making world smaller Sent from Wide Iris cell:646.620.5704

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same smile in every photograph

like she sees her role as that of nail or piece of joinery that must shape itself just-so to engage the photograph.gives nothing away, or rather the same exact thing away every time.her wry commentary on herself in the age of mechanical reproduction?

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Movie: Slumdog Millionaire

After all the build-up, a disappointment, cliched and predictable. Just a novelty being a Bolly-Holly hybrid. The unalloyed love story carries it for sheer energy, but it has no real resonance beyond the archetype. Goodies and baddies and kids running around trying to stay alive. And for a gritty look at the life force animating…

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Response from BJ

(Wanamaker) Dear Kevin, I am so very saddened about what you have told me regarding Undine. It wasn't that long ago that I was entertaining my kids at the dinner table with remembrances of my friend Enidu and her younger brothers Kram and Nivek. We all wondered what became of you all. I am just…

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Letter to BJ

Hi Barbara, Thanks for reconnecting. Someone told me that you had inquired after Undine on a blog for Elm Court, where we used to live. I am Undine's youngest brother Kevin. I remember you well from when the years when we lived at Gulf Mills. I am so sorry to confirm your apprehensions. Undine died…

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Movie: Curious Case of Benjamin Button

kind of hooey. a kernel of feeling that comes of a dramatizing a genuinely intriguing thought/emotion experiment, but gimmicky stereotyped and lacquered over and neither the screenwriter nor Brad Pitt up to the task. and criminal the way they made up Cate Blanchett to within an inch of her life, like a china doll for…

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25 things – for facebook

1. is strongly ambivalent about living in either the country or the city, but is decidedly against living in the suburbs. Is reminded of his father's favorite questions: "Is it warmer in the summer or the country?" and "Do you bring your lunch or drive to work?" 2. would love to have been a champion…

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