ISBN

an acronym: International Standard Book Number

National Day

in Luxembourg today, it is that country’s national holiday

Luxembourg (officially) speaks French and German, but also Luxembourgish, spends euros, & its capital is Luxembourg

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“Nightime & he had gone out to the water, high on grass, & sat down & the light from the electric signs – Coca-Cola? – in the town came across the bay, and every line of light came off straight, the primitive line, Stone Age, the line of grass

CUT TO

nighttime, same spot, high on acid, and lines come off not straight but in perfect half circles, the acid line, the line of the present, the perfect circle, like the spiders they injected with acid and they wove perfect little round webs

CUT TO

nighttime, same spot, high on opium, only time he ever took hard dope, and the lines came off starting into circles and instead finished with a little hook, like the little hook even in the lines of that strange comic strip, The Spirit, and this was the line of the future, completing the circle without having to go all the way every time, getting there by knowing the beginning of the trip

CUT TO

Nighttime and an electrical storm in the Mexican heat flashes, high on acid, the lightning breaking out – there! – there! – and the electricity flows through him and out of him, a second skin, a suit of electricity, and if the time was ever now it is – Now! – and he hurls his hand toward the sky to make the lightning break out where he points – Now! – we’ve got to close it, the gap between the flash and the eye, and make it, the reentry into Now… as Superheroes … open … until he falls to the beach and Mountain Girl finds him holding his throat and choking as if he is gagging on sand…

   Beyond acid. They have made the trip now, closed the circle, all of them, and they either emerge as superheroes, closing the door behind them, and soaring through the hole in the sapling sky, or just lollygag in the loop – the loop of the lag – Almost clear! Presque vu! – many good heads have seen it – Paul telling the early Christians: hooking down wine for the Holy Spirit – sooner or later the Blood has got to flood into you for good – Zoroaster telling his followers: you can’t keep taking haoma water to see the flames of Vohu Mano – you’ve got to become the flames, man – And Dr. Strange and Sub Mariner and the Incredible Hulk and the Fantastic Four and the Human Torch prank about on the Rat walls of la casa grande like stroboscopic sledgehammer Cassady’s fons et origo ::::: and it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon:::::”

- pages 322-324 of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe (1968)

Independence Day

in Iceland today, it is that country’s national holiday

Iceland (officially) speaks Icelandic, spends Icelandic krona, & its capital is Reykjavik

spectrophotometer

a device used to measure the light wavelengths reflected from an object’s surface

Cloudcroft Hostel

tucked away in the mountains in New Mexico, U.S.A.,

I stayed there a night last summer, it’s a really nice place,

http://www.cloudcrofthostel.com/

colors

“A normal human visual system is capable of distinguishing approximately 16.7 million different colors.” – page 42, Color Companion For The Digital Artist

Where’s George?

I’ve gotten a hit in Connecticut

so now, the bills that I’ve registered have gone on to 21 states: North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, Illinois, Montana, Texas, Wisconsin, Arizona, Missouri, Florida, Georgia, Wyoming, New Jersey, New Mexico, Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, California, South Carolina, Colorado, & Connecticut

blog roll addition

today I’m adding Patrick Tiltmann’s website of travel photos to my blog roll, a fellow friend, traveller, & couchsurfer

The Daily Bleed

a really neat, interesting, cool calendar of events which I’ve refered to now & then – for sometime now – to find tidbits of significance about any particular day, a peoples’ history: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/calmast.htm