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...There's something that's lost that cannot be found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cYNI8s_vo4 Today is the eleventh anniversary of the death of Anthony H. Wilson, saint of Manchester, England. Read his obituary in The Guardian if you have not heard of him (most saints are known only by those who pray to them). Perennial television host and co-founder of

It was time to sharpen the contrast, really. I have redesigned the blog to signify a kind of territory. This territory is wilderness, the landscape stark and difficult, full of memories and promises we create as we go along, each becoming ourselves. As we create, we create markers and monuments for pilgrimage. Monuments for ourselves

Yesterday, I had the pleasure to walk through Manhattan's Lower East Side, from Essex Street up through Alphabet City to Tompkins Square Park to Second Avenue and then down to Houston Street. For better or worse, it has cleaned up immensely over the decades, but the LES was once where New Yorkers, dragged by the

https://vimeo.com/259476611 Johánn Jóhannson A Song for Europa Orphée The Conet Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQUD3IMbb4 I do not consider myself a mystic. Yet, the whole phenomenon of number stations possesses for me an ethereal, preternatural sort of communication, expression, and aesthetic. They are simultaneously calming and unsettling. They are impossible to decipher. The messages are entirely

Last night, I saw this photo. My heart broke again. The day was already strange enough, love and death juxtaposed and mixed. And then the shooting started. Our acknowledgement of the inevitable future of our collective and individual demise was met by the catastrophic present of another school transformed into an abattoir. We did not