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Passing Current 5: Inflation Saints, 2

April 5, 2015

(In Philadelphia! The beautiful trees on the Swarthmore campus, from a splendid tuliptree to a young red oak, as trim and neat and lively as a whippet....

Passing Current 4: Rosemary and Liszt

March 30, 2015

Jupiter was very close to the waxing moon at nightfall this evening – Jupiter, the garden of storms. Rosemary and Liszt The first night of Anomalous Music in...

Passing Current 3: The invention of clickbait in Girard, Kansas in 1922

March 24, 2015

(Wilhelm Reich was born today, he of the blue-green “orgone” energy, the Sex-Pol project in Vienna (“psychoanalytic counseling, Marxist advice and...

Passing Current 2: Inflation Saints

March 19, 2015

Tonight’s the new moon, tomorrow’s the equinox. the inflation saints, 1: Gusto Gräser Try to picture him, Gusto, “precursor and stimulator of all the...

Passing Current 1: Cosmograms!

March 15, 2015

It’s a cloudy, slate-colored Sunday morning in New York City. (As the snow melts, it’s like a long-exposure photograph of the detritus and trash of weeks of...