fugacious.netThe transient blog of Joerg Diekmann. Still no editorial focus whatsoever. However, it does appear as if it contains mostly quotes collected from stuff I've read. I also run Holborn5, and host Mister PotatO and Dr F. All my photos are on {exposure}.It's Turtles All The Way Down- January 27, 2004 Found here: In A Brief History of Time (Bantam Books, 1988), Stephen Hawking tells the story of an elderly woman who confronted Bertrand Russell at the end of a lecture on orbital mechanics, claiming she had a theory superior to...http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/27/its_turtles_all_the_way_down Hollywood Reporter 3- January 26, 2004 Report number three from Heike - will she ever meet Charlize Theron In this week's edition of the Hollywood Reporter, we shall be investigating Los Angelean greetings and mating behaviour and teaching you some unusual grammatical forms that you didn't...http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/26/hollywood_reporter_3 Across the Frontier- January 20, 2004 Across the frontier the world's secret truths move unhindered every day. Inspectors doze or pocket dirty money, and the world's narcotics and armaments, its dangerous ideas, all the contrabandits of the age, the wanted ones, those who do have...http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/20/across_the_frontier My DJ- January 16, 2004 A nugget from a piece by Brian Bieber. Read the whole thing (it's not long) on McSweeney's. My DJ lays down some real hardcore shit while the doctor tells me the lump on my left testicle is just a benign...http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/16/my_dj Crossing Borders - Frontiers- January 14, 2004 Here is the truth: this line, at which we must stand until we are allowed to walk across and give our papers to be examined by an officer who is entitled to ask us more or less anything. At...http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/14/crossing_borders_frontiers Human Love- January 12, 2004 From Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her feet No, this is a story of deep but unstable love, one of breakages and reunions; a love of endless overcoming, defined by the obstacles it must surmount, beyond which greater travails lie....http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/12/human_love Hollywood Reporter 2- January 12, 2004 Another report from Heike. I like the motel called El Rancho Dolores. Very sleazy....http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/12/hollywood_reporter_2 Hollywood Reporter 1- January 6, 2004 A report from a friend of mine, Heike Brunner, who is currently in Hollywood, trying to land her first role in a Holywood movie. Hi! For those of you I didn't get in touch with before I left Paris, just...http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/06/hollywood_reporter_1 Madagascar- January 5, 2004 On that note, a short description of Madagascar (also from Lonely Planet): Madagascar's forests are a shimmering, seething mass of a trillion stems and dripping leaves and slithering, jumping, quirky beasts out of nature's bag of tricks: Lemurs, chameleons, periwinkles...http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/05/madagascar India- January 5, 2004 Salman Rushdie is making me want to go to India. Here's a short travelguide description from Lonely Planet: India will sideswipe you with its size, clamour and diversity. Nothing in the country is ever quite what you expect, and the...http://www.fugacious.net/archives/2004/01/05/india |