Tell Old Bill

Oahu

2012-01-22T00:47:00.000-08:00

How we alone of mortals are
Hid under quiet boughs apart,
While our love grows an Indian star,
A meteor of the burning heart,
One with the tide that gleams,
the wings that gleam and dart.

Yeats

a kid holding a cat.

2012-01-12T08:11:00.000-08:00

Last semester- and some good modigliani

2012-01-05T13:34:00.000-08:00

"I think Gaius and Titius may have honestly misunderstood the pressing educational need of the moment. They see the world around them swayed by emotional propaganda- they have learned from tradition that youth is sentimental- and they conclude that the best thing they can do is to fortify the minds of young people against emotion. My own experience as a teacher tells an opposite tale. For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head."

CS LEWIS

2012-01-01T16:59:00.000-08:00

Christmas

2011-12-24T10:46:00.000-08:00

glories stream from heaven afar
heavenly hosts sing Hallelujah
Christ the Saviour is born!
Christ the Saviour is born!

the old back yard

2011-12-18T19:12:00.000-08:00

"The fountains of my great deep are broken up, and I have rained my reminiscenses for four and twenty hours. The old life has swept before me like a panorama; the old days have trooped by in their old glory, again; the old faces have looked out of the mists of the past; old footsteps have sounded, old voices have greeted me, and the songs I loved ages and ages ago have come wailing down the centuries" -- Mark Twain

zingers

2011-12-11T12:30:00.000-08:00

california

2011-11-29T13:23:00.000-08:00

art show in SLC library

2011-11-14T22:15:00.000-08:00

I graduate in the springtime next year and I have no idea what I'm going to do then.

a painting of some kid in a chair

2011-10-31T10:56:00.000-07:00

I've only done 3 paintings so far this semester, and this is the best one. It is 36x48 on canvas.

Idaho

2011-10-31T10:42:00.000-07:00

its hard to argue with function and earth tones.

fall ditty

2011-10-08T12:06:00.000-07:00

The wind blows up the valley
And through the merry trees
The prophecy of change
Is whispered to the leaves
The slanting of the sun
The song of anxious crickets
The drying air and drying grass
The geese down by the thickets
The frost along the trenches
The bowers empty nests
The desperate love of home
Caught up with such unrest.

2011-09-20T22:28:00.000-07:00

temples

2011-09-14T00:28:00.000-07:00

little towns

2011-07-11T22:56:00.000-07:00

"Rust grows along the railroad tracks
The young folks leave they don't come back."

4th of July

2011-07-05T22:33:00.000-07:00

I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

As I was walkin' I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side, it didn't say nothing
That side was made for you and me!

Woody Guthrie

new thing old thing

2011-06-15T22:50:00.000-07:00

"The walls of my tiny fortress have fallen"

paintings

2011-05-09T21:44:00.000-07:00

2011-05-06T18:52:00.000-07:00

You gave me music, a bouquet from your hand
You gave me a living song, one that I can understand

GB

Finches

2011-05-06T18:48:00.000-07:00

Wayne Kimball gave me his finches- that is my only famous person story.

bean museum exhibit

2011-05-06T18:34:00.000-07:00

behold the wild industrial vacuum.

Here are some pictures of the exhibit we are working on about african animals. I helped paint the murral and now I am building bases for the animals- they are in different stages of completion, but they all will have rocks and grass in the end. It is interesting work.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass

2011-04-15T18:16:00.000-07:00

The House That Built Me-Miranda Lambert

2011-04-15T18:15:00.000-07:00

Greg Brown/ Bo Ramsey "Walkin' down through the cold grass"

2011-04-15T18:10:00.000-07:00

Marita Solberg - SOLVEIG'S SONG [ Edvard Grieg ] Peer Gynt

2011-04-15T18:08:00.000-07:00

2011-04-01T01:15:00.000-07:00

Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.

Ann Sexton

new paintings

2011-03-26T10:27:00.000-07:00

I've educated myself into dead art.

nova plasma tech

2011-03-20T16:29:00.000-07:00

2011-03-14T05:42:00.000-07:00

"a curtain getting slowly drawn"

utar

2011-03-13T00:26:00.000-08:00

2011-03-02T00:26:00.000-08:00

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant

2011-02-27T16:22:00.000-08:00

The quarrel of the sparrows in the eves,
The full round moon and the star laden sky,
And the loud song of the ever singing leaves,
Had hid away the earths old and weary cry.

And then you came with those mournful lips,
And with you came the whole of the worlds tears,
And all the trouble of her labouring ships,
And all the trouble of her myriad years.

And now the sparrows warring in the eves,
The curd-pale moon, the white stars in the sky,
And the loud chaunting of the unquiet leaves,
Are shaken with the earths old and weary cry.

Yeats

some new paintings

2011-02-15T23:25:00.000-08:00

The horse guy is going to be painted in grays and glazed over in color. The portrait and windmill are done I guess.

Something to look forward to

2011-02-13T20:37:00.001-08:00

some places I love

2011-02-13T19:38:00.000-08:00

lets see, we've got
Home
The woods behind Quarry Farm
Wyoming
Jackson Hole
and New York State

clouds rolled in from Nebraska

2011-02-09T00:41:00.000-08:00

These are both Wyoming photos. One is in spring in the Swan Valley area and the other is further southwest on the Utah boarderline during the summer. Its hard to be anywhere when you could be here.

Peasall sisters - Where no one stands alone

2011-02-05T10:40:00.000-08:00

Anybody else miss giant locust?

2011-02-03T09:46:00.000-08:00

murry

2011-01-25T00:00:00.000-08:00

The river laughs a long long laugh
The grass sings with the wind
Orion has gone a hunting
Through fields I have never been.

The stars wander through the night
Seasons make them change
The moon dances in and out
And cycles all again.

If these ordered things can move in time
And keep heaven and earth aright
There also must be order in
My wandering days and nights?

O sit by my side
And sing some old old song
It seems this life is fleeting
We don't have very long.

take to the hills

2011-01-18T21:51:00.000-08:00

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Where on earth can you go, far from the things that you know?

harry anderson

2011-01-17T09:30:00.000-08:00

And while they looked stedfastly towared heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. Acts 1: 10-11.

That thing I just wrote is also pretentious.

2011-01-13T11:48:00.003-08:00

art that is pretentious.

2011-01-12T15:31:00.000-08:00

I like some art, but a lot of it has this huge discrepancy between what it claims to be about and what it is enjoyed for. Like the rhinoceros made out of orange cones. It is supposed to be about recycling. Go recycling. It's a life size orange rhino! THAT is the cool part- recycling is cool too but not in the same way. Or when Klien had all those poor naked women doing performance stuff... I know whether you exist or not is an important question, but I don't think his theory was what drew so many men to the show. So this is where so called 'concepts' keep not working. You have a thing that is visually compelling and you have a 'concept'. They have nothing to do with each other, but if its about something important like social equality or feminism or racism than you can't write it off or you'll look evil. Well I write it off, for the record.
So how do you make art that isn't purely visual? This is a false question- nothing is purely visual. Even Thomas Kinkade isn't- there's a strong concept there about quaintness and comfort. Whether it's tasteful or not is a whole other question and this is where you get to the argument made by CS Lewis in "The Abolition of Man". That these plentiful CONCEPTS (or sentiments if you want to include kitsch but don't want to admit that it has a concept) are not the problem. Mothers and children are fundamentally powerful symbols no matter how cool you think you are. The problem is in taste. The only reason Kinkade is bad is because his taste is elementary and indulgent. But the strain he's working on is worked on by Hans Haacke in his very conceptual "tenements" where he documents slums... he's concerned about housing and the comforts of the place you reside. Its the same thing- The problem with modern education is that good things are written off for lacking "intellectual" concepts when they should be written off for bad taste. A young person taking art may not see the difference between Bob Ross and Fredrique, but it would be foolish to say that landscapes are cheesy. Take it up with God. Everyone is part of an overworked intellectual audience already- it is no longer a matter of awareness or mental capacity as we'd like to think. I know doctors that like Kinkade... (Andy Warhol would too because Kinkade fullfilled his dream of purely commercialized commodity art, but theory is loyal and all dresses the same at parties). I'm not arguing for kindkade here- I am arguing against the tight parameters and false claims of so called "conceptual" art.
The sad thing is when you realize how the arts, instead of making you care more, are merely making you cynical and narrow. Instead of stopping to enjoy the sunset you stop to look at a bronze cube. (this says something about sunsets, etc). Instead of stopping to see a waterfall you drive 20 hours to see the Spiral Jetty. Instead of loving all men we love mostly those with the same intellectual bagage as us. The danger and the only reason this matters is in calling good things bad by making them less important than "concept culture". Pretentious stuff.

an idaho painting

2011-01-04T18:45:00.001-08:00

2010-12-31T07:11:00.001-08:00

"And right action is freedom
From past and future also.
For most of us, this is the aim
Never here to be realised;
Who are only undefeated
Because we have gone on trying"

-TS Eliot

December

2010-12-20T07:29:00.000-08:00

ye old studio

2010-12-04T23:01:00.000-08:00

right o

2010-11-21T09:43:00.000-08:00

Kitty

2010-11-15T15:22:00.000-08:00

new paintings

2010-11-02T16:27:00.000-07:00

If anyone wants their portrait painted please contact me- I'll be doing lots of portraits the next year and I would gladly take most commissions. Here's my email address: Nickbontorno@hotmail.com

tom waits

2010-10-31T11:23:00.000-07:00

Down by the Riverside motel
It's 10 below and falling
By a 99 cent store
She closed her eyes and started swaying
But it's so hard to dance that way
When it's cold and there's no music
Oh, your hometown's so far away
But inside your head there's a record that's playing
Hold on

Jenny and Alan came by and we painted Jenny

2010-10-30T16:24:00.000-07:00

an autumn poem?

2010-10-25T18:28:00.000-07:00

Leaves gather at the edge of the field

Like old friends reassuring.

The confidence of summer

Has given way to the sobriety

Of all things becoming temporary and impalpable,

Throughout summer I command my days

Now I am a beggar-

Chilled and disillusioned

I find a path among the leaves

And Orion begins his arc overhead.

I think Andrew showed me this

2010-10-10T22:46:00.000-07:00

places

2010-09-27T11:45:00.000-07:00

the only thing I don't like about the west is how fashionable it is for people to fall in line. Even the rebellious young people swarm in trendy hives. Everyone should read a little Emerson. Get some transcendental in you.

a drawing

2010-09-16T18:49:00.000-07:00

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.” Walt Whitman

End of summer

2010-08-27T10:03:00.000-07:00

"Done layed around
Done stayed around
This old town too long
Summers almost gone
Summers almost gone"

Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith Papyri

2010-08-21T15:06:00.000-07:00

http://en.fairmormon.org/Book_of_Abraham/Joseph_Smith_Papyri

So here is a link that very straight-forwardly answers a lot of questions that I have always had about the Book of Abraham. Its easy to find critics views online, but that is not very interesting. It is much more interesting to believe in something and find out why, than to go around discrediting everything difficult. Like George McDonnald says "Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and therefore left untried".

The only thing not mentioned here about the facsimiles being not really about Abraham I read Michael Rhodes idea that they could have been some things Joseph had in his collection that resembled closest to what he may have seen in revelation- and got published (thoses scenes are common it seems). It sold the Times and Seasons paper.

How I came to America

2010-08-18T23:30:00.001-07:00

Bob Dylan played here

2010-08-15T00:39:00.000-07:00

Dylan played in jackson last night, and Jim and I went to it with some free tickets my boss came upon and gave us. He surprised me by playing a lot of his hits, which I thought he generally avoided, but he played Rolling Stone and Just like a Woman and the Ballad of Hollis Brown and the Lonesome Death of Hattie Carol and Rollin and Tumblin and even All Along the Watchtower. It was pretty monumental. If you cant tell from the pictures he's the one with the white hat.
So Jackson hole has givin me some really good music since I've been working here. Last year I saw Greg Brown in Driggs and Beethovens 9th at the Grand teton music festival, and this year I saw Mozarts 40 and 41st and Bob Dylan. Good thing I was here these years.

near south pass city

2010-08-11T13:04:00.000-07:00

Atlantic city mining district Wyoming

2010-08-10T20:41:00.000-07:00

question the motive of your loyalties

2010-08-05T13:21:00.000-07:00

Mosiah 29:26
"Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law- to do your business by the voice of the people."

Prop 8 Overturn
Statement of Charles J. Cooper, lead counsel for the proponents of Proposition 8, concerning the decision rendered today in Perry v. Schwarzenegger:

“Today, a single federal judge has negated the will of the people of California. The central premise of the court’s ruling is that it is irrational for the citizenry to decide to retain the traditional definition of marriage. The court holds that the ubiquitous definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman is a historical curiosity that serves no purpose whatsoever, but rather is based solely on anti-gay biases. Indeed, the court went so far as to brand as “irrational” all supporters of traditional marriage, which is the vast majority of all people, in American and throughout the world. As New York’s high court recently recognized, until very recently it “was an accepted truth for almost everyone who ever lived, in any society in which marriage existed, that there could be marriages only between participants of different sex.” [Hernandez v. Robles, 855 N.E.2d at 8 (N.Y. 2006)]. The historical record reveals that the traditional definition of marriage is grounded in society’s interest in channeling potentially procreative sexual relationships between men and women into enduring, stable family units to increase the likelihood that children will be raised by the man and woman whose union brought them into the world.

“Judge Walker’s ruling sweeps aside this historical understanding of marriage. In its place, he has announced that “Marriage is the state recognition of a couple’s choice to live with each other, to remain committed to one another and to form a household based on their own feelings about one another and to join in an economic partnership and support one another and any dependants.” His opinion thus treats children as a mere afterthought when it comes to marriage. The Court’s disregard for the historical purposes of marriage would require California to embark on a novel experiment with the fundamental institution of marriage. In doing so, it threatens to harm the vital interests historically served by marriage. The United States Constitution provides no warrant for this result, as demonstrated by the all-but-unanimous judgment of other federal courts that have addressed the issue.

“In addition to dismissing the traditional definition of marriage, the judge incredibly found that children don’t need fathers. Or mothers. To state this proposition is to refute it. And the court also found that there is no benefit whatsoever for a child to be raised by its own biological parents. Fortunately, the Constitution does not require the people to substitute the social science musings of gay rights activists for common sense. This decision will not stand.

“Fortunately, the case is not over. Judge Walker acknowledged from the outset that “this case is only touching down in this Court, … it will have a life after this Court, and what happens here, in many ways, is only a prelude to what is going to happen later.” July 2, 2009 Tr. of Hr’g at 12. About that he was right. We have already filed a notice of appeal and look forward to the next stage of this litigation.”

Our president is calling prop 8 "divisive and discriminatory". All these changes bring us closer to the time when it becomes unlawfully discriminating for the LDS church to deny marriage to gay couples. But the church's official release on the subject said in part: “There is no doubt that today’s ruling will add to the marriage debate in this country, and we urge people on all sides of this issue to act in a spirit of mutual respect and civility toward those with a different opinion.”

a bear

2010-07-29T15:23:00.000-07:00

3rd summer in Jackson

2010-07-17T19:51:00.000-07:00

Thinking about the mountains where
People learn the stars
Clouds rolled in from Nebraska
Dark chords on a big guitar

O

2010-07-08T18:42:00.000-07:00

"With your measured abandon
And your farmers walk
with your worn out shoes
and your eagerness to talk
with your mothers burden
and your fathers stare
with your pretty dresses
and your wind swept hair
with your pledge of allegiance
and your ringless hand
with your young woman's terror
and your old woman's plan
with your sisters questions
and your brothers tears
with your empty womb
and the forsaken years
O you"

-Greg Brown

2010-06-19T21:27:00.000-07:00

"And again, O God, when I did turn to my house thou didst hear me in my prayer.
Yea, thou art merciful unto thy children when they cry unto thee, to be heard of thee and not of men, and thou wilt hear them."

Alma 33

salty and flaty

2010-06-06T13:03:00.000-07:00

if you head west of Salt Lake on I80 you drive through the salt flats which are a huge expanse about the size of New Jersey of nothingness but salt. The military uses this area of Utah to blow things up. No one and nothing lives out here, and its refreshing.

new portrait

2010-05-27T17:44:00.000-07:00

The hosts of the air

2010-05-26T00:50:00.000-07:00

O'DRISCOLL drove with a song
The wild duck and the drake
From the tall and the tufted reeds
Of the drear Hart Lake.

And he saw young men and young girls
Who danced on a level place,
And Bridget his bride among them,
With a sad and a gay face.

The dancers crowded about him
And many a sweet thing said,
And a young man brought him red wine
And a young girl white bread.

But Bridget drew him by the sleeve
Away from the merry bands,
To old men playing at cards
With a twinkling of ancient hands.

The bread and the wine had a doom,
For these were the host of the air;
He sat and played in a dream
Of her long dim hair.

He played with the merry old men
And thought not of evil chance,
Until one bore Bridget his bride
Away from the merry dance.

He bore her away in his arms,
The handsomest young man there,
And his neck and his breast and his arms
Were drowned in her long dim hair.

O'Driscoll scattered the cards
And out of his dream awoke:
Old men and young men and young girls
Were gone like a drifting smoke;

But he heard high up in the air
A piper piping away,
And never was piping so sad,
And never was piping so gay.

WB Yeats

THEY'RE RUNNING OUT OF BATTERIES

2010-05-22T13:36:00.000-07:00

Pinos Altos Opera House

2010-05-20T23:39:00.000-07:00

I was born in the wrong century

ha ha ha

2010-05-11T15:17:00.001-07:00

thanks to Maddison

Henry Folsom

2010-05-10T23:17:00.000-07:00

This is an old folk painting done in early 1700s by an artist who no one knows anything about, and died young. It's of his sister. It hangs on a wall. That's art, and I don't think you need much more. You can take your NYC and L.A. and your subconcious and your concepts and your dialog and your community and your grants, and have a bonfire.

my mom is famous for good reason

2010-05-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

Website has landed afresh

2010-05-03T01:25:00.000-07:00

I have a new website of artwork. It is almost done. But you can see it at Nickbontorno.wordpress.com

I may change it to something else in the future, but for now, that's where it is. Nickbontorno.com is broke and gone.

Kandinsky and Klee- good times on the beach

2010-05-01T16:47:00.000-07:00

This is for a collection I want to start of pictures of famous artists hanging out together.

Idaho trip

2010-05-01T16:38:00.000-07:00

I drove Kimberly back to Idaho and here are some pictures of what it looks like to drive through Idaho and what Kim looks like with mountains behind her. It's all very pretty.

monoprints

2010-04-10T08:21:00.000-07:00

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small

recent art

2010-04-01T00:24:00.000-07:00

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
-Emerson

How to wipe a plate, by Chris Moulton

2010-03-29T08:50:00.001-07:00

So I found that my friend Chris put up an illustrioius presentation of how to wipe a plate while printmaking. So if you go to his blog which I have listed on the left here <--- than you can see it. And for those of you who are wondering what making prints looks like, this is 1 critical step among many.

monoprint portfolio

2010-03-19T08:05:00.001-07:00

Railroad Bill

2010-03-13T15:32:00.001-08:00

Early one morning
standing out in the rain
And around that bend
Came a great freight train

Railroad Bill
Is a mean man
He shot the midnight lantern out of a
Good mans hand

Trouble in the east
Trouble in the west
Got a .38 special sticking
Out of my vest

Railroad Bill
Coming down the hill
Lighting a cigar with a
Twenty dollar bill

Railroad Bill said that
Before he died
He'd build a railroad just for the
Bums to ride

2010-02-21T00:32:00.000-08:00

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Jane Austen

some new monoprints

2010-02-15T15:51:00.000-08:00

this was a train station

2010-02-06T23:23:00.000-08:00

Wash my eyes that I may see
Yellow return to the willow tree
Open my ears that I may hear,
The river running swift and clear

Spring and All

2010-01-31T22:47:00.000-08:00

Snow on the north side
Trash in the yard
Love like an old newpaper
Tatered and stained
Find some long river
and follow it down
to where our old sins have washed up
in New Orleans.

Something or other

2010-01-27T21:55:00.000-08:00

2010-01-26T15:00:00.000-08:00

"I'm more sensitive than you because I extract more from less" it seems to say; or "I'm smarter because I am getting to the heart of a thing outside all that visual detail". it leaves behind worth while tools for conveying ideas. Granted it is interesting- but on a science center level. It's interesting like reading a good magizene is interesting. It's involved like the peace corps is involved. But where is the art? That old thing that hangs quietly on the wall?

tell ol Bill

2010-01-19T00:03:00.000-08:00

I walk by tranquil lakes and streams
As each new season's dawn awaits
I lay awake at night with troubled dreams
The enemy is at the gate.

Beneath the thunder-blasted trees
The words are ringin' off your tongue
The ground is hard in times like these
Stars are cold, the night is young.

The rocks are bleak, the trees are bare
Iron clouds go floatin' by
Snowflakes falling in my hair
Beneath the gray and stormy sky.

The evenin' sun is sinking low
The woods are dark, the town is too
They''ll drag you down, they run the show
Ain't no tellin' what they'll do.

Tell Ol' Bill when he comes home
Anything is worth a try
Tell him that I'm not alone
That the hour has come to do or die.

All the world I would defy
Let me make it plain as day
I look at you now and I sigh
How could it be any other way?

Ends

2009-12-27T15:51:00.000-08:00

I found this invitation used as a bookmark in an old book at my parents house.
"The wintry day, descending to its close,
Invites all wearied nature to repose,
And shades of night are falling dense and fast
Like sable curtains closing o'er the past.
Pale through the gloom the newly fallen snow
Wraps in a shroud the silent earth below
As though 'twere mercy's hand had spread the pall,
A symbol of forgiveness unto all"

-OF Whitney

"And right action is freedom
From past and future also.
For most of us, this is the aim
Never here to be realised;
Who are only undefeated
Because we have gone on trying"

-TS Eliot

Christmas

2009-12-17T07:37:00.000-08:00

"They looked up and saw a star
shining in the east beyond them far
And to the earth it gave great light
And so it continued both day and night"

some paintings

2009-12-11T00:01:00.000-08:00

here's a few paintings. If anyone wants to buy one I want to get rid of the other 4. Cheap.

-

2009-12-04T11:54:00.000-08:00

"Remember man that thou art made of clay
and in this world thou hast not long to stay"

a painting

2009-11-23T20:48:00.000-08:00

here's my first painting of the semester and the only one I have a photo of. It's somewhat religious because the man has a slight halo. He's preaching or something. Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

2009-11-21T09:29:00.000-08:00

Bob the builder visited my site.

old buildings

2009-11-14T18:59:00.000-08:00

We explored the town of Eureka and Tintic, which are very old but still lived in. This last picture is of the inside of what once was "the Star Theatre". The roof is gone now. Most of the buildings were locked. The 2nd picture of the landscape explains why I love the west so much.
"But home is beneath the great big skies
And the northern pains and otherwise
open spaces,
nowadays there aren't as many".

my studio

2009-11-03T14:09:00.000-08:00

this is where I paint.

on leaving Wyoming

2009-10-31T23:17:00.000-07:00

On leaving Jackson I passed a little place that had this old gas station left over. And then I hit the deserty part of western Wyoming which was beautifully vacant (rte 189) Lots of options for people worried about the urban sprall. And then there's been this ghost in my apt. He looks fake, and he is.

Till We Have Faces

2009-10-22T09:31:00.000-07:00

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"Do you begin to set your wits against mine? Throw yourself down."

"Oh no, no, no; mercy!" said I.

-CSL