Christian Molenaar

Category: Nothings

  • Contradictions

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    Dear Friend, Your letter affected me both unpleasantly and pleasantly (you see, I always move in dialectical contradictions). Read more

  • The First British Pizza

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    “Lud wishes to know,” Whike relays at last, “Mr. Emerson’s Cousin’s Views, upon the Structure of the World.” Read more

  • Animals Shaped Like People

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    March 13. Directed by Mr Judson, the hotelkeeper, and bearing a verbal introduction from him, I was able to talk to Mrs Mary Blount, a woman of eighty who lives with her granddaughter and the granddaughter’s husband on a farm about twenty miles from Frenchman’s Landing. The husband warned me before I was taken in Read more

  • Perspective

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    At the striking of noon on a certain fifth of March there occurred within a causal radius of Brandon railway-station and yet beyond the deepest pools of emptiness between the uttermost stellar systems one of those infinitesimal ripples in the creative silence of the First Cause which always occur when an exceptional stir of heightened Read more

  • First Sun

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    Zurich in winter is often smothered in fog and low clouds for months on end. Prevailing winds from the north ram the clouds coming in from the Atlantic against the wall of the Alps, and there they stick. Gray day after gray day, in a gray city by a gray lake, split by a gray Read more

  • Darkness Promises

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    Aside from Matt Wascovich, Scarcity of Tanks that night included Weasel Walter, Kid Millions, Jim Sauter of Borbetomagus, John Morton from the electric eels and Nick from Necking. Read more

  • Bloodlines

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    Eventually it became clear that they were leaving the mountain landscapes behind. Would they recognize them if they passed that way again? (Not that they had any plans to do so). They had folders full to bursting with souvenirs. “I can still see it in my mind’s eye…” ran the stock phrase. But why the Read more

  • The Arteries of Trade

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    The most popular all-year explosive! Read more

  • The Future Sound of Rumford

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    Just shy of three decades ago: Lucas Abela’s first US tour, sharing the stage with Deerhoof and Crank Sturgeon at the legendary Geno’s in Maine. Abela had his first ever snowball fight, during which he pegged an unmarked police car with a snowball. Read more

  • Simple Answers

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    If my Contact page is dead, how did this end up in my spam? Read more

Thought:

“The pistol-shot of the painter’s eye dislocates the real. Then the painter puts it up again and organizes it in that same eye, according to his taste, his methods, his Ideal Beauty.”

Robert Bresson

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