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Monthly Archives: March 2011

dream.20110330: the train

by Rob Friesel

We are in our living room. It is ours, and yet I do not recognize this place, this cock-eyed curiosity of a room. Perhaps our living room from Barre – the floors certainly are reminiscent of that house – but it is bent and crooked. And a railroad runs through it. When we discover the […]

dream.20110322: Futura

by Rob Friesel

JP[0], JP[1], JA, and I are all riding in JP[0]’s car on our way to a company-sponsored celebratory ski day at Stowe. (JA doesn’t want to be there; he never does; but he must come because he is up for an award.) Along the way, JP[0] stops for gas. While tanking up, I change all […]

dream.20110321: house of scissorhands

by Rob Friesel

It’s an imaginative confluence of House of Leaves and Edward Scissorhands – the scene rendered in a Burtonesque palette: a narrow swath of rich blacks, blues, greys, whites, and the very rare, very bold singular subject color. The house is already labyrinthine, made oppressively so by a… feeling that something is not quite right. The […]

Linkdump for March 19th

by Rob Friesel

Ready for Contact at Smithsonian Magazine (via Boing Boing) — interesting article about first contact and the preparations for its eventuality (tagged: seti first_contact astronomy politics research essay todo ) Stranger than fiction: The search for habitable exomoons at BoingBoing (tagged: astronomy research ) How ‘OK’ took over the world at BBC News (via DF) (tagged: […]

BTV ✈ WTF

by Rob Friesel

What follows is a harrowing tale of airline incompetence, an abbreviated travelogue of our recent experience to West Virginia and back home to Vermont. I don’t much care for air travel to begin with, and this certainly makes me want to drop it as a transportation option all together. The short version: Customer service is […]