Category: oddities
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Human Behaviour
I’m sitting in the Sky Harbor Airport right now, at the gate from which my flight will soon depart. I’m seated in front of a bank of pay phones. Twice now a U.S. Airways pilot has come by and systematically done the following: 1. Lifts the phone from the cradle and lays it lengthwise on […]
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Snow Falling on Sand Dunes
This is what I saw as I was walking across campus to my office yesterday: a snow drift. In April. In Arizona! Keep in mind, our temps are in the mid-80s right now and it’s sunny every day. I have no idea how the snow got there or, then, how it lasted so long! Some […]
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Querelle
Fassbinder’s final film, Querelle tells the story of the titular sailor in the French navy who, while ashore in the town of Brest, embarks on a voyage of sexual awakening…in what we might call “the company of men.” It’s a strange film, oddly-hued with burnt yellows and oranges, conspicuously filmed on a sound stage. Among […]
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Found Poem Friday
Actual Text (in order) from a 1989 issue of Sassy magazine: You pick1989’s mostbeloved stars We takeyou to thegynecologist This teen“suicide” wasa murder Cut-out giftsfrom us 10 ways tosave the planet And 87,354sequins
Charles Jensen | Writer 