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Thu 1 Feb 2018

Truthiness

Posted by PJ under art, lies, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“This is the slyness of art: If you tell enough lies, you’re bound to say something true.”

—William Meredith, The Paris Review, Issue 95, Spring 1985

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 26 Jan 2018

An old lady’s worth

Posted by PJ under art, daimons and demons, dreams and dreamtime, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t (sic) know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done….The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is worth any number of old ladies.”

—William Faulkner, The Paris Review, Issue 12, Spring 1956

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Wed 10 Jan 2018

Good words

Posted by PJ under art, photography, quote of the day, words
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Random quote of the day:

“I photograph because I must elude the part of myself that thinks there are words for everything.”

—Teju Cole, Twitterfeed, June 20, 2013

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Wed 3 Jan 2018

Laying an egg

Posted by PJ under art, failure, movies, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Sometimes you lay an egg, and people will say, It was too early. Audiences weren’t ready for it. Bullshit. If it’s good, it’s good. If it’s bad, it’s bad.”

—Billy Wilder, The Paris Review, Issue 138, Spring 1996

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Thu 9 Nov 2017

Solace

Posted by PJ under art, comfort, optimism, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I feel like what we need art for is a little bit of solace, a little bit of company in trying to deal with the darker stuff. And at the same time, I would never write a pessimistic book. I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.”

—Michael Cunningham, interview, PBS Newshour, April 19, 1999

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Thu 2 Nov 2017

The Dead

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, the dead
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Random quote of the day:

“Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”

—W. H. Auden, New York Times, August 8, 1971

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Fri 27 Oct 2017

Everything else

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It’s what everything else isn’t.

—Theodore Roethke, Poetry and Craft

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Thu 19 Oct 2017

Dove guitar

Posted by PJ under art, poetry, quote of the day, symbols
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Random quote of the day:

“The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar.

—Pablo Neruda, The Paris Review, Issue 51, Spring 1971

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Thu 31 Aug 2017

Soledad

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, solitude
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Random quote of the day:

“Nothing can be accomplished without solitude.”

—Pablo Picasso, “What Life Has Taught Me,” Music Journal, January 1962, Vol. 20, No. 1

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Mon 26 Jun 2017

Down Portalville Way – Pictographs

Posted by PJ under art, cryptids, folklore, indians, portalville, sacredness, storytelling
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  1. Let me Thread you a story…(1-24)
  2. Rikiki Rocks, just outside town in the Rokoko Valley, is a special place.
  3. The stones there have all kinds of fantastical shapes. There’s Old Man Mammoth, a massive piece of elephantine-shaped granite.
  4. And Donut Rock, a modern name for a big circular thing with a hole in the middle. Local tradition says if a woman wishes to conceive,
  5. she should pass through the hole in that rock under the light of the full moon. That’s why it’s also known as Mother Rock.
  6. There’s many another fanciful shape with fanciful traditions, and I could spend days describing them all. Maybe I will someday.
  7. But one thing to know about Rikiki Rocks is that sometime in the way back when somebody carved pictographs on ‘em.
  8. These pictures show warriors, hunters, shamans, prey animals and such like. Some have red ochre added to the grooves.
  9. Folks do say as how these rocks are sacred to the local Kintache Indians. Yaku Ravenwing, the Kintache story shaman, agrees.
  10. Yaku’s legal name is Arturo, but nobody ever calls him that. Yaku means “blue tongue” in Kintache and he really can talk a blue streak.
  11. One time when he was storytelling at a Kintache powwow, some folks swore they saw blue flames sprouting from his mouth.
  12. Like any good narrator, Yaku swears his stories are mostly true so when he says Rikiki Rocks are not to be messed with, people listen.
  13. No one in Portalville would ever desecrate them, but we do get the occasional drive-by tourist that can’t help themselves.
  14. Yaku tells about two such good ol’ boys driving through from Talladega on their way to California.
  15. They took a rest break at Daisy Mae’s Snack-a-Round out on Route 40. She had a picture of Rikiki Rocks behind the bar.
  16. These boys asked about ‘em and Daisy Mae all innocently said how proud people were of ’em in these parts.
  17. Well, you know, the devil is in some folks, and that ain’t no lie, no matter what else may be a story, no matter what else you believe.
  18. These boys got a notion to go out to those rocks and add their names to ‘em. Stopped by Pedergreen’s Hardware for spray paint & chisels.
  19. Way Yaku tells it, when they got to the rocks weren’t another human around ‘cept the hunters, shamans & warriors on the pictographs.
  20. Guess they didn’t notice the sasquatch taking a rest beside The Bigtoes, some Rikikis shaped like 5 giant toes sticking out of the sand.
  21. Sasquatch don’t usually get involved in human affairs, but those rocks is sacred to them, too. Yaku says Sasquatch took care of things.
  22. Sheriff Limonada found the boys’ car abandoned near the Rikikis but didn’t never find a trace of them boys.
  23. So I asked Yaku how he knew the sasquatch took care of them boys if nobody else was around?
  24. He just grinned his big ol’ grin. “Sasquatch told me, of course.” Weren’t but a trace of blue flame & smoke on his lips when he said it.

 

This tale can also be found on Twitter @downportalville.

 

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