Filed Under Poem for Hela | Comments Off on Poem: Lighthouse at Night—Alfonsina Storni
Lighthouse at Night —Alfonsina Storni Translated from Spanish by Jim Normington The sky is a black sphere and the sea is a black disc. On the coast the lighthouse unfolds its fan of light. Who is it looking for endlessly in the night as it turns endlessly? If it looks into my heart it will […]
Filed Under History, Things I Think About | Comments Off on Don’t Call Me Mister
Doing some research on Rachel Pollack, I found this article, “Don’t Call Me Mister You Fucking Beast”, a piece written by the Transvestite, Transsexual and Drag Queen group of the GLF at some point in 1972. It was transcribed to hypertext from Come Together – The Years of Liberation 1970-1973 by Autumn. According to Morgan […]
Filed Under Things I Think About | Comments Off on Standing in a Garage
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor And going to bløts no more makes you Heathen than standing in a garage makes you a car. Showing up is a start, but then what do you do with the experience afterward? Did […]
Filed Under History | Comments Off on Pantographia: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known Alphabets in the World
Our friends at the Public Domain Review have posted Edmund Fry’s Pantographia: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known Alphabets in the World from 1799. It contains 405 alphabets from 164 languages. PDR notes that, “To get these letters into print, Fry carved each one onto a steel punch, which could be pressed into a […]