tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66254428640493653242024-03-22T06:28:48.911+01:00ExabruptosSometimes when it itches you've got to scratch.John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-24937267481291254372015-02-24T20:55:00.000+01:002015-02-24T22:43:02.976+01:00The Rise of the Bi-Polar
On fads in mental disorders and their relation to drug companies' interests. Gems from an interview with British psychoanalyst Darian Leader this Sunday in El País:
"There is one pharmaceutical industry salesman for every three doctors prescribing drugs. The pharmaceuticals manage lists that classify doctors into what you might call Aristotelian categories in terms of what kind of John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-49330732638694844022014-01-29T18:18:00.000+01:002014-01-29T19:13:43.771+01:00Why they call them Blimps
The Mail OnLine presents the new JLENS aerostats, posted at 10,000 feet over the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, allegedly to secure the East Coast from incoming cruise missiles (January 24th, 2014).
Ugly things.
Nothing up to the standards of the early-20th century LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin – they look more like something thrown out of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, an eyeless John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-74855500796814849402013-12-17T09:51:00.001+01:002013-12-17T10:15:18.252+01:00Born to Run
Readers of Spanish, please don't miss Jacinto Antón's virtual tour of the new museum of Catalan hurt feelings in El País this Sunday, Born to Si, Si.
During the restoration of the Born, a19th century market, archeologists discovered the remains of an entire neighborhood demolished by Bourbon conquerors in the early 18th century, in reprisal for Barcelona's siding with the wrong monarchy in John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-17466616359783067492013-12-17T08:51:00.000+01:002013-12-17T08:54:25.371+01:00Headlines that double-speak for themselves
Dubai Aims to Become World's Most Sustainable City in Time for
Expo 2020
The headline is from GreenSource, sister publication of Architectural Record, dated December 16, 2013. John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-63095426780648732582013-02-11T16:38:00.000+01:002014-03-01T14:15:56.348+01:00Attention, George Saunders
I preserve a tender spot somewhere in me for these missives from Russian bots.
Here's a recent one:
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Straight from the email PR:
"The Psychopathologies
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international array of John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-50358102094780967632013-02-09T01:52:00.001+01:002013-02-11T03:19:32.229+01:00Counting the Lavender
A description of Steven Holl's plans to enlarge Washington, DC's Kennedy Center, which ran in Salon on January 29, talks about a Memorial Garden:
"It could include 46 Gingko trees to note the number of years Kennedy lived, 35 lavender rows for the 35th president..."
"It could include a reflecting pool the exact length of the PT-109 boat that Lt. John Kennedy commanded during World War IIJohn Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-70238283874439384592012-12-29T11:32:00.001+01:002012-12-29T11:32:40.967+01:00Love Letter
Love letter received from a foreign robot, very touching:
-----Original Message-----
From: albertporter
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 3:16 PM
To: John Sandwich
Subject: I will wait That you smiled at me
I wish to find my soul mate!
I am a attractive and confident woman. I do believe in love based on a deep
passion and even deeper John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-65192161875392007502012-12-16T16:17:00.000+01:002012-12-16T16:17:11.585+01:00America, A Paranoiac-Critical State of Mind
Free association via Dali's Paranoiac-Critical Method
Another bad time for Hillary Clinton, just out of the State Department and she slips and falls in the bath before her Senate hearings over the Libyan fiasco.
And what’s with John McCain for State? Too much conciliation with
stuff the way it is, they must have Obama by the balls in foreign policy and
“defense” – the Libya thing John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-17995362964536134662012-09-27T03:12:00.001+02:002012-09-27T03:12:21.398+02:00Why We Hate The New York Times Part 3 or 4
The New York TImes will never learn. Look at this profile in T-Bone Magazine on my favorite slicko-French architect. Rudy Riccotti (above), and his new cultural center in Marseilles, a city which is described in the article as that "simmering bouillabaisse of Mediterranean cultures".
Rudy had my friend David Cohn simmering too this summer when he reviewed his Jean Cocteau Museum for John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-67383709041149737362012-09-27T02:32:00.000+02:002012-09-27T02:32:16.012+02:00Obstructed Voter
Take a look at the New York absentee voter ballot package I received here in Spain. If you can make heads or
tails of it. Beats me.
First, try sizing the PDF ballot (above) to print on letter paper, as per instructions. It doesn't print correctly,
the names don't come out, and it's full of black streaks -- I tried 4 different ways and
downloaded it twice.
Then all the nonsense about John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-12646032963765528462012-09-26T23:48:00.001+02:002012-09-26T23:48:22.772+02:00Guisqui a Go-Go<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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mso-padding-alt:0cmJohn Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-82217111008858239812012-03-31T14:27:00.000+02:002012-03-31T14:27:17.632+02:00Warbucks and the General StrikeFunny Coincidence Dept: The New York Times chronicles Starbucks efforts to open the European market the day after fringe extremists in Barcelona torch a Starbucks during the General Strike of 29 March. I hope the executives in Seattle can take a hint.
One of the obstacles to profit in Europe: supposedly high employee wages.
Photos of the Barcelona rioting were widely distributed in the world John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-75340361990111097172012-01-06T14:24:00.004+01:002012-01-06T14:40:30.999+01:00Howlin Wolf
A friend who likes to provoke sent us the following article from The National Review by one Victor Davis Hanson, reflecting on the effect of metal-hunting thieves on his rural California community. Hanson writes, "I am starting to feel as if I am living in a Vandal state, perhaps on the frontier near Carthage around a.d. 530, or in a beleaguered Rome in 455." He goes on for four pages John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-11006139838642450432012-01-02T21:21:00.002+01:002012-01-02T21:25:09.982+01:00Fluff and Filth
Why I Hate The New York Times update
T Mag has a blog by Christopher Petkanas specializing in, quote, Fabulous Dead People, which as you can guess are decadent French aristocratic gays and socialites.
If it were Warhol's old Interview I couldn't object, but isn't this getting a little tiresome?
What is it with the Times? Even Vanity Fair has more aggressive reporting on the general stink of John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-86359272615890953082011-12-03T01:43:00.002+01:002012-01-02T21:34:24.771+01:00Back to WorkTrying to get back up and running after a trip, but it occurred to me to launch a new computer with Windows 7 (up from XP).
In the new Word the menus have disappeared and it seems all must be done with the mouse, with tiny new symbols and lettering arranged not in a line but all over the place. It's just as if they rearranged the keyboard, the bastards.
The image above is driving me nuts too, John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-53625436698967632172011-11-03T10:30:00.000+01:002011-11-03T10:30:31.023+01:00Bring in the ClownsI had a friend in college, call her Sugar, who knew Tom Waits when he was just another suburban middle-class Dylan wannabee, and of course it's all an act. That's show biz. But you've got to have an act that, well, is a good act, and he just doesn't sell me. Sugar had sour grapes on a sour romance too I think, but he sings like a genuine phony.
I read in some silly echo in El Pais of John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-14473876558376729962011-10-18T10:51:00.002+02:002011-10-18T10:53:03.473+02:00Crystal Bridges versus the Strip
On Walmart's Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansaw: They could have spared us the stores and spared us the museum too. Look at Carneige, who built magnificent libraries everywhere. What have they given back to the towns they've bled to death economically?John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-10436778665125957132011-09-10T18:25:00.001+02:002011-09-10T19:34:10.266+02:00Wailing WallGlad I'm far away from all the 9/11 commemorations, as reported in the Times last week. If they commemorated every dead Iraqi or Afghan like they do every American, the world would become one big version of the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem. No one hears them over there but everything is connected.John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-63069049139982138472011-06-28T17:39:00.001+02:002011-06-28T18:04:27.976+02:00Airport Security: A Modest Proposal
In light of increasing complaints on airport security measures (click here for example), we offer a modest suggestion: A special optional flight plan available to all travelers: pay less for your ticket in airport taxes, sign a waiver against suing the government if the plane blows up mid-flight, and you can skip the airport shakedown.
It's win-win for everyone. The only trick is to make sureJohn Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-66251463535642448112011-06-07T19:23:00.002+02:002011-06-07T19:28:18.425+02:00Middle Brow GourmandieFrom our ongoing anthology Why I Hate The New York Times, in a book review about Americans in Paris in the 19th century:"This is history to be savored rather than sprinted through, like a Parisian meal. It amounts to a meaty collection of short stories, expertly and flavorfully assembled, free of gristly theory."The review includes a good example of confusing diction and a curious way ofJohn Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-25916660846328697452011-05-27T20:55:00.000+02:002011-05-27T20:55:53.587+02:00The Patent Office is OpenSome ideas just keep popping up in our head, time to unload. Interested developers, leave a comment and our lawyers will be in touch shortly. Reasonable rates:
The Pedal-Powered Computer Desk. Remember those Singer sewing machine tables with the cast iron foot pedals? From Sweat Shop to Ye Olde Cafe. Hook one up to a dynamo and a lithium battery, and you can cruise the internet off the grid! John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-69545803594524266802011-04-23T12:02:00.000+02:002011-04-23T12:02:43.778+02:00A Nero from New YorkIf you had to chose between Donald Trump and Sarah Palin as President, who would it be? (He's looking pretty Presidential for sure).John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-5081432719169873812011-04-01T13:19:00.000+02:002011-04-01T13:19:57.615+02:00Renewable EnegyI've seen the future -- a radio/flashlight with a lthium battery and a hand crank. Soon we will be all running in circles like gerbels to power our computers, heat our houses and move our cars -- back to the Flintstones. WILMAAAA!John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6625442864049365324.post-16416480170003372842010-12-20T19:59:00.002+01:002010-12-20T20:12:10.688+01:00My Man KimmelmanHere's man after my own heart. Michael Kimmelman in the NYT (December 16th, selected excerpts):
"Notwithstanding the recession, art-worlders insist smart people still pay good money for great art. (Really? Smart? Hirst?)
The current art world, in the form of art fairs like Frieze, as well as the ubiquitous biennials and other festivals, is without debate succeeding at something now. It's John Sandwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05353263241499500518noreply@blogger.com0