Innovative, Mark: you could have a poem for the day hanging on the wall
prepared for its fate.
On 2 September 2010 07:02, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I had this idea years ago for skipping a step and just printing very short
> stories or poems directly on the toilet paper. That way we wouldn't need to
> carry books with us. And there'd always be a surprise.
>
>
> At 01:34 AM 9/2/2010, you wrote:
>
>> And should anyone doubt my profound last statement, below are just two of
>> the many links that demonstrate the size od demand, from the expanding
>> Canadian market for 'green tissue' (so delicate these North Americans), to
>> Chinese warnings about running out. Yup, there's a future in publishing
>> print, it just might have to set its sights a little lower.
>>
>> http://www.tissueworldmagazine.com/10JunJul/country-report-2.php
>>
>>
>> http://encyclopedia.toiletpaperworld.com/toilet-paper-history/complete-historical-timeline
>>
>>
>> On 2 September 2010 06:14, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > I think it'll survive as junk mail and chapbooks and vanity presses and
>> > items for the discerning (i.e. rich and stupid) collector even longer.
>> > Seriously, the more the demise of print is fanfared, excuse the
>> execrable
>> > verb, the more gets published, and the more secure the supply base for
>> the
>> > recycled toilet paper industry appears.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 1 September 2010 17:50, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Print will survive in the form of braille for the foreseeable future
>> (note
>> >> pun).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> At 12:46 PM 9/1/2010, you wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hal, you must be waiting for a soft furry bunny laptop(??).
>> >>>
>> >>> I prefer to reverse the order: "Print abandons the OED". Last I
>> looked
>> >>> Print is not going anywhere - just getting a little lonely waiting for
>> a new
>> >>> kind of recovery to kick in.
>> >>>
>> >>> Alphabet tattoos anyone?
>> >>>
>> >>> Stephen V
>> >>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>> >>> Where my mom is revived with a new haptic & account et al
>> >>>
>> >>> --- On Wed, 9/1/10, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>> Subject: Re: OED abandons print
>> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> >>> Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 7:24 AM
>> >>>
>> >>> Wanna squash things flat? Hit 'em with
>> >>> a laptop.
>> >>>
>> >>> Hal Serving the tri-state area.
>> >>>
>> >>> Halvard Johnson
>> >>> ================
>> >>>
>> >>> [log in to unmask]
>> >>> http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home
>> >>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>> >>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> >>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>> >>> <http://www.hamiltonstone.org>
>> >>> *Obras Públicas*
>> >>> *
>> >>>
>> https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/halvard-johnson-obras-publicas*
>> >>> *
>> >>> *
>> >>> <http://www.hamiltonstone.org>*The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye
>> and
>> >>> Other Sonnets*
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
>> >>>
>> >>> *Organ Harvest with Entrance of Clones*
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1
>> >>>
>> >>> *Tango Bouquet*
>> >>> <
>> >>>
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en
>> >>>
>> >>> <
>> >>>
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en
>> >>> >
>> >>> *Theory of Harmony*
>> >>> *
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf
>> >>> *
>> >>> *Rapsodie espagnole*
>> >>> *
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf
>> >>> *
>> >>>
>> >>> *Guide to the Tokyo Subway*
>> >>> *
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3
>> >>> *
>> >>> *
>> >>> *
>> >>> *<
>> >>>
>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf
>> >>> >The
>> >>> Sonnet Project*
>> >>> *
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf
>> >>> *
>> >>> *
>> >>> *
>> >>> *<
>> >>>
>> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf
>> >>> >
>> >>> G(e)nome*
>> >>> *http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf*
>> >>> *
>> >>> *
>> >>> *Winter Journey*
>> >>> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html
>> >>> *
>> >>> *
>> >>> *Eclipse*
>> >>> *http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html*
>> >>> *
>> >>> *
>> >>> *The Dance of the Red Swan*
>> >>> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html
>> >>>
>> >>> *Transparencies & Projections*
>> >>> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html
>> >>> *
>> >>> *
>> >>> * <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>
>> >>> *
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Patrick McManus <
>> >>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > What happened to JO?
>> >>> > Also cds are not much good at squashing things flat and keeping
>> flowers
>> >>> > pressed !
>> >>> > Still I admit the clay tablet edition had it's drawbacks-even if
>> fire
>> >>> > resistant
>> >>> > P concerned archivista
>> >>> >
>> >>> > -----Original Message-----
>> >>> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:
>> [log in to unmask]]
>> >>> On
>> >>> > Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
>> >>> > Sent: 01 September 2010 07:42
>> >>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> >>> > Subject: Re: OED abandons print
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Well, the one-volume, Chris. I'd certainly concede that electronic
>> >>> storage
>> >>> > and retrieval devices, as long as they have competent operating
>> >>> software,
>> >>> > are better as mass information reference depositories but that in
>> >>> itself
>> >>> > sounds like a sentence from an operating manual poorly translated
>> from
>> >>> the
>> >>> > Chinese.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On 31 August 2010 11:06, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:18 +0100, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>> >>> > > > None whatsoever, I imagine.
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > True, but the shorter two volume edition will remain, from what
>> the
>> >>> > > article says.
>> >>> > > --
>> >>> > > have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain
>> fog
>> >>> > weird
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
>> >>> > >
>> >>> > > Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
>> >>> > >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > --
>> >>> > (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>> >>> > "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>> >>> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> >>> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> >>> > The Animal Subsides
>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> >>> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>> >>> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>> >>> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
>> >> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
>> >> particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and
>> through
>> >> every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’
>> >> fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets left out,
>> the
>> >> more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various
>> >> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark
>> Weiss.
>> >> His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
>> musical
>> >> threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
>> >> personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
>> >>
>> >> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
>> >> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>> > "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>> > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>> > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>>
>
>
>
> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>
>
> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
> particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through
> every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’
> fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets left out, the
> more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various
> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss.
> His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical
> threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
> personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
>
> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
>
--
(David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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