Thomas Pynchon Reads Trailer For Inherent Vice

Reblogged from Edenborough:

You probably will never see his picture but here is an opportunity to hear one of the greatest American writers reading from his own work!

Tweeting The First Page Of Finnegan's Wake

Reblogged from Edenborough:

Just had to try this to see what it would look like on Twitter when Twitter was kind of new and seemed to have certain unusual potential such as  making the most unreadable book in the English language even more difficult to read. I am convinced Joyce would have liked twitter, if only as a way of making communicating with imbeciles even more far fetched a concept :)

And there is someone out there who is tweeting Finnegans Wake

in it's entirety  though he seems to have stalled on page 183.

https://twitter.com/_FinnegansWake_

Do Not Call

Reblogged from Edenborough:

Reblogging some old posts from other blogs before I dump them.

We are in a senior's residence until we die

so take us off your goddam list

Did some telemarketing between 2007 and 2012 mostly business to business  but spent a year and a half calling people at their homes and this is what I felt summarized the whole deal, this is what was out there. This is why my heart could never really be in it. It paid the bills for awhile is all.

Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests

Earth Day

Blade Runner Revisited

“But what can a poor boy do except to sing for a rock and roll band”  The Rolling Stones

Or maybe just follow your imagination with a camera if music is not your talent. So this is my take on Blade Runner. Or should I say my ultra low budget take in an abandoned (now demolished) factory in Lachine with no cast, no crew,  but with a strong, eerie, and sexy feeling that Darryl Hannah might pop out from behind a rusted machine that no one alive remembers what it was used for. Abandoned factories let your mind soar.

There was a lot of water leaking from the roof, like rain, and that area I stood in made me feel like I could have been in this scene.

Life, so totally crazy, so full of horror and pain, yet so totally worth hanging on to with everything you’ve got, every drop of blood alive as much as anything else before or after. There isn’t that much that separates us from everything in the universe beyond Time, and a few random particles here and there.

Do You See The Android? Neither Do I

This image, along with some of my other works, is on display at Cafe Victoria on Wellington street until the end of April.

I would also like to dedicate this post to the memory of Jay Simmons.

Transport Quebec warns motorists: stay away from Turcot Interchange this weekend

It was built below specs and has been poorly maintained.  Saving on maintenance costs in the first 3 decades created  full time maintenance contracts that has cost, and will cost taxpayer’s, over 100′s of  million of dollars to maintain a structure that is scheduled to be torn down.  Somebody has done alright with that. But not you and me.

By Billy Shields Global News

MONTREAL – Transport Quebec announced a series of closures this weekend as it ramps up badly needed work on the Turcot Interchange.

Starting at 10 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday, the A-720 West ramp to the A-15 South and the A-20 East ramp toward the A-15 South will be closed.

The A-15 South within the interchange and the A-15 South ramp to the A-720 will be closed in the evening Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

South Shore motorists are advised to take either the Victoria or Jacques-Cartier bridges, or to use the Autoroute Bonaventure.

Officials are also telling drivers to avoid the interchange entirely — small comfort if you’re a West Island driver needing to get to the downtown core.

“It’s hard when you have to drive to Montreal, I avoid it at all costs,” one driver said coming off the Turcot.

This work is the precursor to the major overhaul of the interchange, one that now has a sticker price of $3.7 billion, and that won’t be done till 2020.

Renovations are expected to continue through August, although the province wants to get much of the work done as early as possible to avoid butting up against Montreal’s summer construction blitz.

Civil engineer Saeed Mirza said that the Turcot overhaul — which was put off for years by successive administrations — represents a failure in management.

Unfortunately our present philosophy is design, build, and forget. and leave the maintenance to somebody else,” he said.

When the Turcot was built in the 1960s, it was a crucial transit cog in the city’s infrastructure, now routine maintenance costs tens of millions of dollars a year.

Story here.