BoneWorld Publishing

Okay, I'm settling into this blog thing.  What a curious word, blog, apparently a shortened version of the original "web log".  We spent the Christmas holiday in Virginia.  Two highlights.  Saw the film Avatar at the IMAX in Hampton, Virginia.  What an experience, my first time at an IMAX; the nearest one to us here in northern New York is roughly a two-hour drive.  I found Avatar simply overwhelming, both visually & audially.  David Denby, a reliable movie reviewer for the New Yorker, calls it "the most beautiful film I've seen in years."  I quite agree.  Highlight #2, of the negative variety, featured a seriously clogged traffic jam on the Washington D.C. Beltway.  We moved five miles in five hours.  I could have crawled faster, backwards.  But I learned something.  While stuck w/ thousands of other static vehicles on the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge (an actual drawbridge) I had the opportunity to gaze north at the city.  I realized that DC looks like no other American city, simply because it has no tall buildings, exactly zero.  And I realized a moment later exactly why.  It's because if you built even a few glass & steel skyscrapers, they would totally dwarf the Capitol & all the other government buildings, & that just would not do.  The city had a sort of flattened Mediterranean look, the huddled buildings swarming over the crests of the gentle hills.  Absolutely nothing vertical about it.

One thing to look out for--Steve Henn, author of Subvert the Dominant Paradigm!, will be participating in a poetry reading at the famous Green Mill Jazz Club on North Broadway Avenue in Chicago on Sunday, January 17th.  That's at 7:00.  Be there to cheer Steve on!

We're still working on the January Barbaric Yawp.  Despite a few unfortunate & unexpected reversals w/ our technology, we hope to have the issue ready before the end of the month.

And that's it for Boneblog #1.  I hope to show up here two or three times each month w/ news, highlights, & odd bits.  Be well.  Oh, all the best for 2010.

Soundtrack: The New Radicals

Weather: been drizzling snow for days, over a foot deep now

Miscellaneous: reading Shiki & Nathaniel Mackey

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