moon traveller herald

Thinking of Rob - as I am in the vicinity again. I saw a rainbow doughnut floating down in the cloud wisps streaming over the superstition mountains flying into phoenix looking for a sign of you one sunday morning. -Jack Vaughan, Nov 3, 2013

Here in the Digital Age, business models continue to be buffeted, often in surprising ways.  The big, lever you push to sell your product – it seems – is data, analytics, and cloud (you figure which is rod, pivot, force). It plays out most vividly in the dialectic of Walmart and Amazon. http://itsthedatatalking.blogspot.com/2015/10/amamart-meets-walzon.html

Reading on Christian Art of the Early Kind REVISED IN 2025 - At a friend's I picked out of a discard brown bag a text, and I opened it, picking the bones of the book I took some notes about where Christianity came from. A long view would hold that Text [the Word] would drive the start of it, but that Image [drawings, e.g.,] would take increasing precedence in communication. Décor - ah, that would come later.  My reading in general of  Early Christian and Byzantine Art  by John Beckwith: It’s from the early 1970s and somewhat spans the spectrum that has Western Art as more of an Ideal than Asian (Farther East). It's accompanied by narrative showing some objective understanding that includes consideration of social forces.  My Reading in its specifics starts here: The early Christians had their ways and they were kind of a mix of Hebraic and Greek cultures.  Some hybridization. But text [word] was the way at the start, with art coming on gradually ove...

April13th [Version] and Boots I came to the east Where it was all blowing up Clear and obvious Going to New York To experience the apocalypse Told the little girl in creative writing I got to go to the center of hell! Go to the city Where the lights are sodium orange The windows caged The people blue Mistakes out in the open On the doorsteps Human refuse is most interesting Somebody kicked garbage All down the street. I couldn't take it Got worn down Just like my platform shoes Had to leave Broke on the train On April 13th. To dream tonight of the Midwest again Clean factory towns   German people The lawn getting greener. iii. got some boots on a Saturday night on 14th Street when I was down an dejected on the street of elvis rugs sony portables gypsy rose That Flagg Bros window looked to me Like the old downtown Christmas tree I saved $20 and washed my socks special for the big event they were black and rounded with silent bubble toes ...

One Night in Carnak's Tabernacle - 1 i. Metropolis, my Lionel set Grim patriot city in the basement  Of my dream. Spooling out with your chutes of Subways ii. They have a new Poe statue in Boston. He is not up on a pedestal. We'll it's modern times isn't it? He looks like a muppet. It's come to this. Welcome back to frog ponderous. At street level he can fulfill final purpose. To have his picture taken with people just off a tourist trolley people who have heard of him. And Edward Everett Hale, in peace, on  his  pedestal, in  the Public Garden , chuckles to Poe's everlasting dread. iii. I came to the east Where it was all blowing up Clear and obvious Going to New York To experience the apocalypse Told the little girl in creative writing I got to go to the center of hell! Go to the city ...