The Penelopiad
It was stupid of Icarius to try to drown the daughter of a naiad, however. Water is our element, it is our birthright. Although we are not such good swimmers as our mothers, we do have a way of floating, and we're well connected among the fish and seabirds. A flock of...
Ways of Seeing
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
You wake up with the answer to the question that everyone asks. The answer is Yes, and the answer is Just Like Here But Worse. That’s all the insight you’ll ever get. So you might as well go back to sleep. You were born without a heartbeat and kept alive in an...
Music For Howie B-B-Babies
Listen to Music For Howie B-B-Babies byGeecologist on hearthis.at Part 2 of the Howie B hagiography... Part 1 is here. I don't know what it is about albums from folks who are primarily producers, but goddamn they're good. And that's not a genre restricted statement...
For The Love of Howie B
Since bagging a copy of Music For Babies back in the 1990s, I've been a big fan of Howie B's exploits. Hot on the heels of that abstract wonder, came Turn The Dark Off, a simpler instrumental hip hop record, but still with tons going on and some exceptionally good...