tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post1223609985529544037..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Human Brains: Enchanted Looms, Electro-Colloidal Computers, Flying Lasagna, and Other Grey Mattersmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-4035389477086827642012-11-05T07:37:13.071-08:002012-11-05T07:37:13.071-08:00I love the video, too. You should be glad you don&...I love the video, too. You should be glad you don't live in Ohio, where we likely get more political ads than anyone else in the country.Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-75750693317191391922012-11-04T19:33:11.341-08:002012-11-04T19:33:11.341-08:00Jeff Beck, when he entered his fusion period (Blow...Jeff Beck, when he entered his fusion period (Blow By Blow and Wired) had a tune called "Scatterbrain."<br /><br />I had a look into Brautigan about 10 yrs ago, when I was reading a lot of choice nonsense and surrealist texts.<br /><br />My memory (I know I could Google it, but I think memory, at times, even faulty memory, can be valuable and telling, if not interesting) of Brautigan's suicide was that he lived in Bolinas (a counterculch artist/writer community near San Francisco), and was all alone when he shot himself at his desk. And - I'll fact-check my memory in a few minutes - no one found him...for "some time."<br /><br />To change the subject entirely, I confess to being in 99% agreement with the little girl in the viral video who cried because no one will stop talking about "Bronco Bama" and Romney. 99% because I don't think I cry quite as much. <br /><br />And who will win? I don't know.<br /><br />Who will lose? I feel I do know:<br /><br />Almost all of us.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-63884446618345543782012-11-03T18:52:40.537-07:002012-11-03T18:52:40.537-07:00Anybody besides me wonder if Brautigan was a Beatl...Anybody besides me wonder if Brautigan was a Beatles fan? "He blew his mind out in a car .... a crowd of people stood and stared/They'd seen his face before"<br /><br />Not only did I recognize the photo of Brautigan, but yeah, I read "Trout Fishing in America" and some others, too. Really, anybody of a certain age with literary pretensions had to read this guy. You were probably just old enough to catch him in his heyday.Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.com