Jacco Olivier: “Bird,” 2011.
[Burroughs _____slaps In Cold Blood
“You have written a dull and unreadable book which could have been written by any staff writer on The New Yorker (an undercover reactionary periodical dedicated to the interests of vested American wealth.) You have placed your services at the disposal of interests who are turning American into a police state by the simple device of deliberately fostering the conditions that give rise to criminality and then demanding increased police powers and the retention of capital punishment to deal with the situation they have created. You have betrayed and sold out the talent that was granted you by this department. That talent is now officially withdrawn. Enjoy your dirty money. You will never have anything else. As a writer you are finished. Over and out. Are you tracking me? Know who I am? You know me, Truman. You have known me for a long time. This is my last visit.”
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July 23, 1970. Quoted in Harper’s. It’s not known whether the letter was sent.
Given the current environment, I feel this could be my last opportunity to do a grand song cycle in the spirit of double album favorites. It will be released vinyl-only (with a download) and we are aiming for a Summer 2012 release date. Right now the expenses are all on battered and bruised credit cards and this project can’t move forward without real assistance.
Deutsche Bank analyst Simon Champion said that the loss of consumer confidence in cruise travel following the Costa Concordia’s crash is likely to hurt Carnival more than the financial penalties. “Reduced demand for cruise holidays — this will be by far the most significant issue for investors in our view,” Champion said in a note.
The tragedy could not have come at a worse time for Carnival, which is in the midst of its heaviest booking season, called “wave season.”
“After the forest dies so will mankind” - the words from this 1970 poster were used long before much thought was given to the decay of the earth. The forest is part of the German national identity, and also a valuable commodity that must be preserved. It was recognized early on that the forest is a crucial part of nature - first by 19th-century poets and philosophers, later by conservationists.
A Gourmet Experience, 1974, Martha Rosler. Gelatin silver print
The world would be better off
The world would be better off
if people tried to become better,
and people would become better,
if they stopped trying to become better off.
For when everyone tries to become
better off
nobody is better off.
But when everyone tries to become better
everybody is better off.
Everyone would be rich
if nobody tried to become richer,
and nobody would be poor
if everybody tried to be the poorest.
And everybody would be what he ought to be
if everybody tried to be
what he wants the other fellow to be.
Peter Maurin, quoted in Loaves and Fishes
"Cats yawn because they realize there’s nothing to do."
— Kerouac
Suzanne Valadon - Nude on a Striped Blanket
There have been ‘last public intellectuals’ for a long time now.
