3/17/11
7/27/10
Pynchon Tries to Sympathize
They dance in flowing skeins. The rats and mice form circles, curl their tails in and out to make chrysanthemum and sunburst patterns, eventually all form into the shape of a single giant mouse, at whose eye [Webley] poses with a smile, arms up in a V, sustaining the last note of the song, along with the giant rodent-chorus and orchestra. One of PWD’s classic propaganda leaflets these days urges the Volksgrenadier: SEZT V-2 EIN!, with a footnote, explaining that “V-2” means to raise both arms in “honorable surrender”—more gallows-humor—and telling how to say, phonetically, “ei ssörrender.” Is Webley’s V here for victory, or ssörender?
They have had their moment of freedom. Webley has only been a guest star. Now it’s back to the cages and the rationalized forms of death—death in the service of the one species cursed with the knowledge that it will die… “I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn’t free out here. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all. I can’t even give you hope that it will be different someday—that They’ll come out, and forget death, and lose Their technology’s elaborate terror, and stop using every other form of life without mercy to keep what haunts men down to a tolerable level—and be like you instead, simply here, simply alive…” The guest star retires down the corridors.
5/5/10
what.
3/11/10
CALL FOR PUBLIC ART.

Ladies and Other Folk,
read this thru CITY newspaper.
This is legit stuff - there is a call for YOUR OWN ARTISTRY on the sidewalks of Rochester.
App Deadline: April 1
Very good very nice.
http://baswa.org/pdfs/RFP%20-%20BASWA%20Traffic%20Control%20Boxes.pdf

