"Are we still married"

courtesy the brothers quay. This has always freaked me out as much of their stuff does--it doesn't seem possible to create this. I feel outraged that they even thought they could film it. It's wonderful and terrifying. The rabbit is the kind of thing I used to see when I closed my eyes after taking nyquil as a kid.

In the beginning was the word...

My latest column, The Whole Wide Word (ok, it's almost 2 weeks old now) at Binnall of America is about some mystical aspects of the Hebrew alphabet. More esoterica alphabetica recommended reading here, here, and here.

Long Lost Night Gallery Find

I was browsing the new releases at Netflix, and came across Night Gallery Season 2. A description of an episode about Zsa Zsa Gabor getting trapped in a mirror made me curious: For years, I have been going crazy trying to find a movie or something I saw as a kid.

All I remembered was a painting that revealed a weird, 'live' prehistoric scene underneath the top layer when someonce scraped away at the paint. It really freaked me out. I remembered it as a made for tv type of movie, and could have sworn that Adrienne Barbeau was in it.

Anyway--I found the Night Gallery episode on youtube, and I'm sure this is what I saw as a kid. It's better and creepier in my memory.

The first scene is quite strange--I suppose the demolition of buildings and traffic congestion is supposed to represent the sacrificing of the past for development, somehow related to the reliquinshing of antiques as the heroine does in the story, and ultimately the trapping in the ancient past...

Part I



Part II

Unlikely poetica on the internets...

Lord knows how or why I came across this, but I sure did, dammit. On some ridiculous Yahoo OMG! stupid website, I found part of a comment about a dress Scarlett Johanssen (or however you spell it) was wearing--the outfit was part of a "what were they thinking" celebrity photo fashion-miss set. I love this; it sounds like it could have been issued from the divine hand of Leonard Cohen...

I am drunk and slightly approve

who cares if your hair is a mess

but you are still

one of the most beautiful women in the world.

I couldn't, sure as hell, wear that dress

dumb headline

I came across this headline just now: Poll: Obama wins women and blacks while McCain wins whites

There's something so odd about this. There's an assumption here that "whites" can refer to just men. Or, that women constitutes a classification such as race. "Women and blacks" suggests that women are not included inherently in "black." Women seem to be likewise not necessarily included in "white." I understand what is really meant here, but it is really poor phraseology...

Good luck to California...

Here's hoping Proposition 8 does not pass by a damn landslide. Rock on.

photo credit: Gay Marriage by bilericoproject via flickr