At the risk of alienating my readers on Twitter---something I'm likely to be doing anyway---I've been playing an old Oulipo game with my tweets today: N+7. It's quite simple: replace every noun in a text with the noun that follows it seven nouns later in the dictionary. The results are often nonsensical, occasionally revelatory, and… Continue reading Twittering N+7
Category: fragments &/of/or writing
Maps and Timelines
Over a period of a few days last week I posted a series of updates onto Twitter that, taken together, added up to less than twenty words. I dragged out across fourteen tweets what could easily fit within one. And instead of text alone, I relied on a combination words and images. I'm calling this… Continue reading Maps and Timelines
The Slow Writing Manifesto (From the Future) [English v.3.14]
THE CENTURY OF SPEED AND SWIFTNESS We hereby declare that the 20th century was the century of speed, of swiftness, of get your booty on and move. We likewise hereby declare that the first decade of the 21st century was also 1/10 a century of speed, of swiftness, of get your booty on and move.… Continue reading The Slow Writing Manifesto (From the Future) [English v.3.14]
25 Random Things about Me (Breakfast Edition)
I must be desperate for content. I spent some time last week fulfilling my "25 Random Things" Facebook viral meme obligations. I am reposting that list here, for the benefit of those three readers of mine who are not yet on Facebook. And to make it look like I've written twice as much as I… Continue reading 25 Random Things about Me (Breakfast Edition)
Between here and Philadelphia
The train. Unapologetically steel. Irresistible momentum. And the joy of discovering the red brake handle, knowing I can pull, and the train becomes my limb, my extension, which I control. Overriding engineers, coffee splashed on laptops throughout, the sudden stop. A hundred people stalled on tracks, the train a bullet bludgeoned to a blunt standstill,… Continue reading Between here and Philadelphia