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Budaghers, New Mexico
On Saturday I went to Santa Fe to meet with someone who had agreed to go over the writing sample I am submitting along with my graduate school applications. About halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe there is a derelict outlet mall, just on the outskirts of Budaghers. I forget what the name of this [...]
I travel to India on the 18th of January
This has always served different purposes: as an outlet for my creative impulses, as a blank sheet of paper for my latest thought or insight. I cannot pretend that I maintain any kind of consistency with regard to the quality and subject matter of what I post on A NEW NADIR.
I have been particularly occupied [...]
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the overpass, a song
I think I understand J.G. Ballard now
Changing routes is an auto-hypnotic state
I wish I could stare at the curvilinear safety wall forever
Landscape projects, double fine zones
When I hit the top of the interchange
I can see forever on either side
But I don’t bother looking over the divider
I only have eyes for the car in front of [...]
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on the greatest video ever made
This video represents the apex of Western civilization (for full effect, visit the youtube page to see it in HD glory). Between mouthfuls of gnomic abbreviations like ‘PBA’ and ‘9-s Soyuz’ this man--nay, gentleman--Michael Barratt gives us peons an exhibitionist’s glimpse into human life abstracted from all physical considerations. Here are men and women who [...]
Historical morality and obstacles to carbon regulation