The Sophist

Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris March 2006

X-Ray Men

X-ray man... dreaming

Come around Pretty X-Ray man

Come around for a sixty-nine

I'm coming 'round, I come my man

don't wanna flip it upside down

C'mon C'mon C'mon!

I wanna!

I don't think so!

Pictured Encyclopedia: from Basketball to Burma

Learning from the past, today the letter B. Click on the picture to make em larger!

The letter B has its tales of happiness and peace; basketball being played by US troops in France after WWI, while clubby Germans are dancing the streets.


































B is foremost about the body its fine tuning mechanics
















But it also about the respect and appreciation of other cultures
















"it rocks gently back and forth when the wind blows"

Ol'wax: Lectura de Don Quixote (Audio)

First episode of a new series on the reading of Don Quixote by the Eugenio Florit as recorded on a dateless piece of vinyl.

Details on the source: Grabacion de alta fidelidad por Gabriel Oller Jr, Estudios SMC Pro-Arte, en la ciudad de Nueva York (USA), Manufacturado por Spanish Music Center 127 West 48th st, New York 36, NY

Track 1: Capitulo XI, primera parte del disco
Al final del capitulo anterior, don Quijote y Sancho Panza, que acaban de pasar varias desgraciadas aventuras, topan, ya de noche can unos cabreros que los acogen con buen animo y les dan de comer y beber. Ante ellos pronuncia don Quijote su famoso discurso de la Edad de Oro.

Alphabet (Corporal Expression)

Today, a very ballerine B

Relief Exposé

Enter the Rahdel Protoetry video material

Feeling Relief

One case in Front of the others

Melt inside, becoming their sisters

But when their relief was gone

Felt myself outside alone

Beaubourg, Paris, January 2006

Wild Books: Elle et Lui

Following on the Wild Books project

Elle et Lui by George Sand, one view of the legendary Sand-Musset story where the serendipituous Pagello becomes the good ol' American acquaintance.

Bought in Paris released in the Art Studio on Harrison ave, Boston.

Make up your mind about their affaire and let us know about it!

Wild Books: The Turn of the Screw and other short Novels

Ghostly nannies? Daddy see kitty.

You will see it all in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Signet Classic edition.

Released in the Antiques and Used Furniture store on Tremont st, Boston, Ma

Found it? Read it? Liked it? Post it!

Wild Books: Marco Polo - The Travels

Did the Chinese invent pizza?

Book released at the Boston Radisson Hotel as part of the Wild Books effort. If you find this book and feel like reading it, tell us about it, you, and where you went with it.

Wild Books: The prospect

As spring shovels the cold away, the migration of books begins. Even today, some do not hesitate to abandon books by the side of the road because they can’t take them on vacation or simply because they would rather make use of a gym than of a library.

Picked from the trash, saved from the rain, a spirtiuous reading gave these books the confidence required for another life of travel. It is always difficult to release a beast one has been reading the guts of for hours. But there is the excitment of thoughts moving along a space freed from lines, high speed cables, and webs; the belief that a book that finds you is worth as much as a whole library's worth of words turned into digits.

To whoever sees one of those books fly by, take a moment to read their notes and write us back, where are they? Are they feeling good? Who are you?

iScape Nippon: Capsule Radio (Audio)

The final of original sounds recorded in Japan this past October. Listen, glisten to the quivering of gardens, the shouts of crowds , the palpitation of radio waves, and the yeahas of western worship.

Track 14: Roaming through the FM band from within the Asakusa capsule

Track 15: Roaming through the AM band from within the same capsule

Radio is full of surprises

SY Pilgrims: Outro

The frivolity of Californian life

Proving that Super Size Me veggie dude wrong

"Run, run, river carry me to my home in the ocean, carry me away ..."

"... Stars will make you feel like you've got friends"

Guest Poet Series: Kate Harp

Because poetry is tough taco guest poets will from now on plenish the apetite of Rahdel comentators. It was hard to select starters for this series. Thanks to Kate Harp for standing up.

(Magnetic) Storm

But when the early tears
Of this last summer storm
Begin to drop like pebbles
On our lips ad the sand,
Take a breath of comfort
As the crushed sky opens -
Remember only you
Could taste
The rain
In me

Lot

It would be a landscape painting, otherwise.
Expanse of snow. Sky, unfinished, the color of canvas,
Night dirtying its edges. A picture framed by a windshield,
Seen through scratched glass. The tongue-shaped patch
Where the car was, the pools of red its tail-lights cast…
Nothing to mark the way the view recedes; the scene is shapeless,
Indistinct. It makes its way towards dark.
Far back, beyond the lot, a boy in silhouette takes one last shot.
The ball, in perfect arc, won’t touch the rim. There is no net.
By the time the silence breaks, you’ll be on the road,
And gaining speed. But in this last look back, your glance
Catches the boy in motion, in solitary light,
And turns the scene into a portrait.

Ophelia

The river shattered,
caught me up
in arms stronger
than the ones -
of lover, brother, father -
that I had known.
I flew,
and surfaced.
Now snowflakes fall,
ghosts of withered violets.
Ice kisses
land softly on my lips,
paint a bridal lace
on my cooling brow.
In all the nights
I hid with you
I never dreamed
that it would be
the one I fled from
whom I did not
have the strength
to live without.

Alphabet ( Corporal Expression)

Today, an acrobaticalC