Clothes Line and the Insufferable Clothes Pin Expedition

Duchamp sent instructions to the couple in Paris to buy a geometry book and hang it by strings from their balcony. As the artist explained, “The wind had to go through the book, choose its own problems, turn and tear out the pages.” The work was destroyed in the process of its making and is known only through a photograph taken, most probably, a few months after the book was installed outdoors.

Birthday

Recent passage

“Travel differs very little from going to a  movie or turning the pages of magazines…people…never arrive at any new place. They can have Shanghai or Berlin or Venice in a package tour that they need never open..Thus the world itself becomes a sort of museum of objects that we have encountered before in some other medium”.

-Marshall McLuhan

Chapter Title- “The Photography: The Brothel-Without-Walls”

Book-Understanding Media.

What of this?

“Death is the wages of sin”

There is no particular order

Luna Pizza, Stuart

I have been going to Luna Pizza since I was at least 13 if not earlier (it opened when I was 8). I would go over and get pizza and garlic knots after hanging out at Tower Games and

Ashlee

Old Roomies

I have been looking through the recently released Bonnie and Clyde documents with great interest. Below is a poem by Bonnie Parker. A link below will direct you to a story, which  then can direct you to the FBI website if you wish to download the documents.

You've read the story of Jesse James
of how he lived and died.
If you're still in need;
of something to read,
here's the story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang
I'm sure you all have read.
how they rob and steal;
and those who squeal,
are usually found dying or dead.

There's lots of untruths to these write-ups;
they're not as ruthless as that.
their nature is raw;
they hate all the law,
the stool pigeons, spotters and rats.

They call them cold-blooded killers
they say they are heartless and mean.
But I say this with pride
that I once knew Clyde,
when he was honest and upright and clean.

But the law fooled around;
kept taking him down,
and locking him up in a cell.
Till he said to me;
"I'll never be free,
so I'll meet a few of them in hell"

The road was so dimly lighted
there were no highway signs to guide.
But they made up their minds;
if all roads were blind,
they wouldn't give up till they died.

The road gets dimmer and dimmer
sometimes you can hardly see.
But it's fight man to man
and do all you can,
for they know they can never be free.

From heart-break some people have suffered
from weariness some people have died.
But take it all in all;
our troubles are small,
till we get like Bonnie and Clyde.

If a policeman is killed in Dallas
and they have no clue or guide.
If they can't find a fiend,
they just wipe their slate clean
and hang it on Bonnie and Clyde.

There's two crimes committed in America
not accredited to the Barrow mob.
They had no hand;
in the kidnap demand,
nor the Kansas City Depot job.

A newsboy once said to his buddy;
"I wish old Clyde would get jumped.
In these awfull hard times;
we'd make a few dimes,
if five or six cops would get bumped"


The police haven't got the report yet
but Clyde called me up today.
He said,"Don't start any fights;
we aren't working nights,
we're joining the NRA."

From Irving to West Dallas viaduct
is known as the Great Divide.
Where the women are kin;
and the men are men,
and they won't "stool" on Bonnie and Clyde.

If they try to act like citizens
and rent them a nice little flat.
About the third night;
they're invited to fight,
by a sub-gun's rat-tat-tat.

They don't think they're too smart or desperate
they know that the law always wins.
They've been shot at before;
but they do not ignore,
that death is the wages of sin.

Some day they'll go down together
they'll bury them side by side.
To few it'll be grief,
to the law a relief
but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.

Below is a link that will provide the online story. The story has a link to the FBI site to download the PDF of the files released.
http://www.insidesocal.com/crime&courts/2009/05/-its-been-75-years.html

I am also reading a Periodical discussing Crimes & Punishments

Lucinda Devlin's photo Electric Chair, Holman Unit, Atmore, Alabama, 1991 from 'The Omega Suites.'  


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