Tuesday, February 3, 2009

what's in a name

"Hudson is beyond a character. Hudson is an archetype of a caricature of a character." - Bob Z

On the site characters may exceed the generally accepted street level boundaries. Guys like Hot Chocolate, Hawk, Iceman, Rhino, Frosty and Teeter all exist. They may have other names and characters, however the important thing is that they have characters. The Soul Brothers don't show up every day as whatever they are at home - or maybe they do. It's of no concern. The important thing is that every day they show up as Soul Brothers.

A house favorite then is Frosty. A mascot of the industry. Apparently he has a real name too. It's only spoken in whispers.... Now in his 60's he rocks instant messaging with the brat age, and parties every night - hence the "Frosty" beer nickname - emblazoned on his name tag.

Like Andy. He hasn't had a day when the clock strikes seven before he's lit someone up. It's hard to beat a 6:55AM warm-up on cold wintry morning.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Dear so and so - outhouse redux and 6" an hour tunneling



so anyhow, spent the day digging a real lovely tunnel - playing in the dirt with a couple of shovels and folks and stuff... one of those few adventures where we people are the best robot we've got - well for now - credits due to larry, jesus, rafael, and justin - cyborgs of the early third millenium. Made it home safe to read some great stuff and got playful

thank you, Séamas Cain
spilling icy secrets
storming letters
from unfettered fingertips
atomic against
unblemished unworked undulates
the offspring of netherworldian others
cowdoggies roaming in herds
stumbling with paper cuts
whilst the world weaves webs
and ambient light shines abalone upon
way up on.
the banks where
Bukowski drops bombs
and lights a big fire

meanwhile we mine for buckets of dineros
30' under suck
mainly because they'll never use an outhouse
nor urns for aerthly returns