“Another popular file format on the Internet is PDF, the short name for Adobe Acrobat files. Even the IRS offers tax forms in PDF format. The limitations of HTML make it impossible to create forms or other documents with rich layout and PDF has become the standard alternative. For now, Acrobat files are really only…
“There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.” — Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) I’ve always heard lots about the…
“Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.” — James Lee Burke (2006) “Oil creates the illusion of a completely changed life, life without work, life for free. Oil is a resource that anesthetizes thought, blurs vision, corrupts.” — Ryszard Kapuściński (1982) It seems that Houma, LA has been in the news a lot lately. That’s Houma, rhyming with “coma,” not…
“Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.” –Bill Hicks “What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.” –W. H. Auden (1962) Last time I moved, I decided not to start cable…
“To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of. When the album first came out, in December of ’68, he got a copy, and he came racing back to the ranch all excited and said, “The Beatles are telling it like it is! The shit is coming…