Offline Airline
Boston Logan Airport, en route to Dublin 2017
Michael Julius
Notes and poetry, mostly.
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0803a
What’s with thinking inside hollow grams. Home to hem lock, twine and token.
0725b
You should be so bold as she Who made so much money. Amazing , you say to the trees On which cash should be plucked Like so many potatoes, weighing The longest branches low.
We are the helpers
We’re all familiar with the Mister Rogers “look for the helpers” talk. But it’s worth remembering that Mister Rogers was talking to children when he said that. And we’re no longer children. We’re no longer looking for the helpers, we are the helpers. We’re the people that need to be offering the help. We’re the ones who need to be useful. How to be useful
0721a
Over the hills they ran. Not just one, but many after that. Hill after hill forever.
Writing the internet:
it’s writing the weather. Sentences, little vials of style and language, are here to hold a record of the internet’s contact with our body, our attention—its energy, pitch, vibe, vocabulary, tone, and how these qualities inform our own energies, pitches, vibes, vocabularies, tones. (Sentences are an old technology; before the internet, they contained the weather of phone lines, the weather of…
Look at that eye
New York City 2009
None of them invented the pencil.
The pencil was invented in 1565 in Borrowdale, Cumbria, which is not Wales but is close enough for our purposes. The gas bill has been available since the introduction of domestic gas supply. Together, they constitute a complete cognitive offloading system requiring no subscription, no beige background, and no illustrated corners. Big Stationery doesn't want you to know this. The Ancient Welsh…
0702a
The air moves like still winds. Demanding the whole light unscattered. Demanding the whole light unscattered.
0604b
Bring ihm back some trance of clips apocalypse. Shown by winds along meridians and the broken Portal of Forgetting.