I have started reading Irish folktales. The abundance of angels must not be a folktale as I read an article by Celia Beresford - 'Angels of Ireland' in Vol no.194, Sep 2011 Java magazine.
I have my hands on Encyclopedia of Urban legends. Once my roomate told me of snake pet sizing pet owner story. When I passed it onto another friend, she told me that its an urban legend. I try to recall any that I know. As a kid, I studied in a hostel. We were always scared of ghosts in the night. As it goes with the preoccupation with ghosts, there was an antidote to this too. It seems there was a village which was haunted. One clever person wrote 'repu raa' which in Telugu means 'visit tomorrow'. Then the whole village resorted to this.
What about a mom putting her dark daughter in a washing machine so that she would turn up fair?
Aids being injected in public places by pin prick attacks
In the fiction world, a poem where a man points to himself when he is told of a kid without a face.
10.26.11
Do you remember reading of a student who wrote 'this is courage' as an answer to an essay to Harvard as personal statement? Well, what do we know. Its an urban legend.
10.28.11
Now theres a500 word limit on the college essay but nothing on the lower side.
We heard of The Graveyard wager as kids.
11.2.11
We have read this The Homemade Lie Detector legend as a story.
Today I got an email from a fellow hiker that she relocated to 'Down Under'. With a reference to Australia in the 'Urban Legends' book as Down Under, the subject line makes sense.
A while ago, my colleague talked about this The Lawnmower accident. What a law legend?
cultural logic must be what makes us believe that dentists are prone to suicide.
Net Galley Challenge
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Shooting in the dark
Yesterday we were talking about Arjuna's skill of Shabd Bhedi. He could shoot by hearing a sound. I was then reminded how arrows could do so many things in the epic Mahabharata. You could make it rain or make a deathbed of them. It was this possibilities that made us regular watchers of the TV programme.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Blood, Bones and Butter
..sweet, starchy peas in their own canoe of crisp, watery and almost sugary pod - Gabrielle Hamilton
The fourth wall
close the barn doors
Plumber/utility candles
Long necks
Magret
Apple mousse
The midwestern requirement of well done meat and well done fish....
- GH
Manti
Melamine plates
Rose wine
Reading the elaborate descriptions of past happenings, I wondered how this book was written. In chapter 5 Gabrielle reveals that she 'wrote endlessly in her journals'.
What you are the main cook at a camp, and a camper's father is Mark Bittman? Bite that.
..it takes a lobster more than fifteen years to grow to three pounds. grown men die harvesting them. - GH
saganaki
Taramasalata
Skordalia
..sweet, starchy peas in their own canoe of crisp, watery and almost sugary pod - Gabrielle Hamilton
The fourth wall
close the barn doors
Plumber/utility candles
Long necks
Magret
Apple mousse
The midwestern requirement of well done meat and well done fish....
- GH
Manti
Melamine plates
Rose wine
Reading the elaborate descriptions of past happenings, I wondered how this book was written. In chapter 5 Gabrielle reveals that she 'wrote endlessly in her journals'.
What you are the main cook at a camp, and a camper's father is Mark Bittman? Bite that.
..it takes a lobster more than fifteen years to grow to three pounds. grown men die harvesting them. - GH
saganaki
Taramasalata
Skordalia
Monday, September 12, 2011
The Lure of Long distance
".. a longing that comes out most forcefully in the language of a cild." - Robin Harvie.
".. a longing that comes out most forcefully in the language of a cild." - Robin Harvie.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Powder to stop spreading
A swirl of the
matchead
into a box of Eyetex
A blemishless dot
on an infants
temple
to ward off evil
9.11.11
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She lit a match to warm the tip of her black wax pencil
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1.31.12
In India mothers put kohl on babies eyes to ward off blindness.
- Candia McWilliam, What to look for in winter.
matchead
into a box of Eyetex
A blemishless dot
on an infants
temple
to ward off evil
9.11.11
***********************
She lit a match to warm the tip of her black wax pencil
************************
1.31.12
In India mothers put kohl on babies eyes to ward off blindness.
- Candia McWilliam, What to look for in winter.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Blue
In the dream
I saw a blue bird
with a long tail split
in two
the tail feathers had designs
like a silk cloth, maroon, gold
Another sticky animal
like in the 'gods must be crazy'
blue
I was warned not to have
anything to do with it.
We were close, I shoved
a camera into its mouth
Outside the office door
a blue- green beetle
lies dead on its back
I saw a blue bird
with a long tail split
in two
the tail feathers had designs
like a silk cloth, maroon, gold
Another sticky animal
like in the 'gods must be crazy'
blue
I was warned not to have
anything to do with it.
We were close, I shoved
a camera into its mouth
Outside the office door
a blue- green beetle
lies dead on its back
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Kids
A small girl follows a mall cop in black and yellow dress.
ten steps away from family she wonders around with hands around her waist.
Another small girl dances by herself, looking into the mirror.
Book news
Recently my friend saw the Dorian gray movie and asked me if I read it. I read it in college, so long ago, that I could use another read. But time only permits flipping The picture of Dorian Gray.
Trees, a photo book with different kinds of rees. let me add a rescent observation at Crowne Plaza in Tempe. There was a row of what seemed like salt cedars with reall broad trunks. They have been sawed of allover. Logs stick ing out vertically. It was an antithesis of a tree with a canopy arrested to nothing.
Trees, a photo book with different kinds of rees. let me add a rescent observation at Crowne Plaza in Tempe. There was a row of what seemed like salt cedars with reall broad trunks. They have been sawed of allover. Logs stick ing out vertically. It was an antithesis of a tree with a canopy arrested to nothing.
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