The Friars

26.3.08

What's the highest number you've ever counted to?

Thinking in steps (a meditation)



What's the highest number you've ever counted up to? I tried again but fell asleep... Maybe a hundred and some...

Once in Barcelona I was counting women walking by a cafe while drinking my cafe con leche and smoking cigarettes. Then I started counting the men and did a hasty ratio. I don't remember the numbers though they were in the hundreds. It left me thinking the odds were in my favor. My kind of town

When I first went to college that ratio was also an important number to me and I actually thought I found the perfect school: two women for every guy. (they also had an observatory--no relation to the above--just a nice accoutrement for a major in solipsism) But then I saw it was a Christian school which throws everything off. But that is all ratio talk and what I'm wondering about are numbers...

What's the highest number you've ever counted to? And not any math operation either...but straight counting, one after the other.

Sheep, crowds, people in line for the bathroom... I've never been involved in an inventory. There must be some nutty numbers in that. And it makes me wonder about Ralph Nader's counting credentials? Are there really are two hundred toothpicks in a box or fifty matches, or a hundred balloons--how would we know? For the Piraha in Brazil there is just "one" and "many" and that's good enough... That would mean one dollar and many--I'm rich!


rz

p.s. Lollapalooza line up is awesome & tickets are on sale.

22.3.08

Pitchfork Music Festival

Friday, Jul 18, 2008 6:00 PM CDT
- Sunday, Jul 20, 2008 10:00 PM CDT
Union Park, 1501 West Randolph, Chicago, IL, 60657



Prohibited Items:

Public Enemy
Animal Collective
Vampire Weekend
Dizzee Rascal
No Age
Atlas Sound
Fleet Foxes
Spiritualized
M. Ward
Boris
Extra Golden
El Guincho



Scheduled Bands:
Tents
Flags
Refunds Or Exchanges
Chairs
Instruments
Knives / Weapons Etc.
Video Cameras
Audio Recording Devices
Professional Cameras
Pets
Drugs & Drug Paraphernalia

18.3.08

Superstitious?

Does anyone have an unusual belief or ritual? If so, I'd love to hear about it! Some friends and I are looking into the role that superstitions play in our lives and society. So stop by yoursuperstition.org and post your story or send us an email.

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Feel free to submit one or many! Thanks for your participation and check back soon to the site to visit the gallery and download the first installment of our audio documentary.

4 leaf clover

Thanks! Wish us luck.

15.3.08

hair trimmings a landfilling fuel alternative



i need a hair cut
that's another hair cut
after one last week
it's getting to be like
breathing, like rent

it must grow
it must grow
as fast as my beard
but all those hairs together
are so different than a shadow

i need a hair cut
another, after just one week
where i get the bus
there's a place, super cuts
not a difficult decision
i look good but can look better
unless its tomato basil...
or a barley and vegetable
a corn chowder...




Z

13.3.08

"news report says stay in doors"

the rich get richer

We “bail out” the mortgage lenders

the richer get richer

The price of oil tops $107

the rich get richer

The Columbians need our help

the rich get richer

The Cubans can’t be helped

the rich get richer

Capitalist Communism is okay

the rich get richer

Socialism is a dirty word

the rich get richer

The little farm can’t pay the rent

the rich get richer

The miracle crop is still illegal

the rich get richer

I don’t care to join in

the rich get richer

I’m just trying to get by

the rich get richer

they put a _____ in the White House

the rich get richer

They put a for sale sign on my house

the rich get richer

The line of serfdom draws thinner

the rich get richer

We did good for a little while there

the rich got richer



H

11.3.08

Yes

she is a "monster"

yuk!

9.3.08

looking to airport west (a novel)

or... where's Mark?

2.3.08

L.C.D.

happiest marchiest ness ness ness !!!!!!!
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