~ judging from the trailer [w] released today, spider-man will have more screen time in ‘spider-man 2’ than he received in the previous movie. it also appears that they are still using los angeles for some of the street web swinging scenes; maybe sam raimi does not know that eucalyptus trees don’t grow in manhattan? nevertheless, ‘the amazing spider-man’ would have been a better title for the 2nd movie than the one chosen.

~ find some new images in the u.s.a. scene report, particularly in new york and a couple of the new england states.

the only thing remarkable about the pritzker prize this year is that the iraqi/woman angle provided it with enough media play to enable us to discover that the new republic has an architecture critic.

~ the people who have been trying to follow the links in the previous post doubtlessly have noticed that seds [w] is down.

~ any npr fact checkers out there should please note that phobos is the larger of mars’s two moons. on the latest ‘weekend edition’, it incorrectly was mentioned that deimos [w] is larger than phobos [w].

~ well, the postwoman delivered to our mailbox evidence as to why dr. dean did not get enough votes in wisconsin to carry on his campaign for the nomination/presidency. maybe if this ‘letter for dean’ had reached the recipient, the election would have gone another way. as it is, we will now have to scratch out ‘dean’ and replace it with ‘nader’ before sending it out again.

~ if any of our readers know Fresnel Lucien from port-au-prince, haiti, please get in touch; we would like to send him a copy of ‘the red dragon’, as well as a few other texts that he may find more rewarding to read.

~ possible topic for xyz article #2:
when drinking vanilla soy milk that has spoiled in the mississippi sun, one detects a minty flavor.

~ there must not be much going on in the world today, as npr [w] found some time during the morning edition news show to inform the nation that new york city has a nice restaurant!

~ when you bike westward from the norfolk southern overpass on ponce de leon, you pass a number of advertising structures, two (2) of which are contracted by the fast food corporation, mcdonald’s, for their pepsi-inspired ‘i’m lovin’ it’ campaign. on a billboard above a restaurant – not a mcdonald’s – there is a depiction of an apparently white (non-latina caucasian) woman laying with two children on what seems to be a pleasure boat or dock; at the intersection with monroe/boulevard, there is a bus stop containing poster with the image of a black (african-american) couple riding what appears to be a subway train. despite the use of the myth that all white people have happy families and yachts, and the possibility of mcdonald’s placing the ‘black’ ad by the bus because they assume that most of the bus riders (viewing the ad) will be black and any couple riding the train (in the ad) will be black notwithstanding, we state with an experienced certainty that no one, of any race, anywhere, rides the subway and thinks to him/herself, ‘i’m ‘lovin it’.

we would have liked to see the first americans arriving in brazil be informed that they were to be fingerprinted and photographed.

~ anyone wishing to fund a six (6) month project of research into the amount of time that transpires between uses of the phrase ‘on the ground’ on national public radio should contact the angry red planet. if ‘arab is the new black’, then ‘on the ground’ is the new ‘kalashnikov’.

~ congratulations to lenny bruce. fuck!

~ whilst taking a holiday in brooklyn and environs last week, we acquired the following for our library:
understanding thomas jefferson – e.m. halliday
interpreter of maladies – jhumpa lahiri
from dawn to decadence – jacques barzun
collected stories – thomas mann
a heartbreaking work of staggering genius – dave eggers

we still seek the 1979 signet classic edition of ‘nineteen nineteen’; contact us if you are willing to supply a copy of this text.