in memory dear

snowflakes cannot quench thy song,
sweetness triumphs over wrong;
on my way
blithe and gay,
cheered, i pass along.

-f. h. palmer, song sparrow, 1904

art/work

read all about it: gots a fresh stack of the ART WORK newspaper from the fine folks at Temporary Services; you can download it, but if you want a nice newsprint version, hollerattagal and i'll send it your way.

currently camped out fireside at gallery 263, eating a quinoa-acorn-wheat loaf and gazing at a wall of bread machines; straight up slangin dough at this show; you can time it right and get a slice by following http://twitter.com/g263bread

and for those of you falling behind on your typewritten correspondence, one of my 2010 goals is to write a letter a day, so i suppose i could type something out for you...or these folks could too:
the charming boys of a literal letter service: http://www.alls.us/
the world famous secretary in for you: http://www.jessicagath.org/theworldfamoussecretary/index.html

bird immortality: not til 2011, at least

union square, somerville, MA

some photographs by bryan schutmaat are pretty swell:

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and big thanks to miss jess pinkham for the tip on yola monakhov: