May 2011
“It’s about watching video games”
From Super Mario Clouds, Cory Arcangel, 2002 From Interview: MARY HEILMANN: What game did the clouds come from? CORY ARCANGEL: Super Mario Bros. HEILMANN: I wonder if the designers who did Super Mario Bros. looked at Georgia O’Keeffe. ARCANGEL: I feel like it’s possible. Those games aren’t art...
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A book is a self-contained story, argument, or body of knowledge that takes more than an hour to read. A book is complete in the sense that it contains its own beginning, middle, and end...
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From Oregon Live: Ma Anand Puja stepped into St. Vincent Hospital on a summer night in 1985, hunting for James Comini. The Filipino nurse was there to kill the rural Oregon politician, who was recuperating from ear surgery at the Portland hospital. She carried a syringe to inject a...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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