More images. 

Then they “totally had a breakdown” and eventually began to use humour to help them get through the ordeal.

“I told my brother ‘your wife is going to have to marry someone else’”, Meng Xianyou told the newspaper.

His brother replied: “I laughed too. I said my wife could find a rich man in Shenyang.

“But then I thought, I have two children and my wife is ugly, so it would be hard for her to remarry.”

The site has moved to a more expansive home, with room for far larged media. In honor, here are three hour long Canadian radio documentaries by Glenn Gould. They feature overlapping speech and sound, so I recommend listening to them on a decent stereo in a darkened room.

 

 The Idea of the North - Glenn Gould [58:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 The Latecomers - Glenn Gould: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 The Quiet in the Land - Gleen Gould: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Below, Gould plays Bach’s Partita #2.

More Gould after the jump.

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Full series

In the foreword to Lolita, Nabokov wrote that “the initial shiver of inspiration” for Lolita “was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature’s cage.”

I was reminded of this when I read an article about two men, a woman, and the internet.

“Every morning of every weekday for 12 years, Thomas Montgomery punched in at the Dynabrade factory in Clarence, a small town in upstate New York. He strapped on his goggles and stood at his machine until the late afternoon, churning out components for power tools. After work, he walked the family dog, Shadow, and took his two daughters to swim practice. He became such a regular presence at the local swim club that he was named its vice president. He tried to be a good father and a decent husband to his wife of 16 years, Cindy. There were a few things he enjoyed — poker night on Fridays with the guys, playing Texas Hold ‘Em on Pogo.com, and the Dynabrade euchre tournament, which he dominated for two years in a row. For the most part, though, life was uneventful.

Which may be why Montgomery looked at himself — a 45-year-old former marine with a reddish mustache, bulging gut, and disappearing hair — and decided to become someone else. That person, he wrote on Dynabrade stationery that he stored in his toolbox at work, would be an 18-year-old marine named Tommy. He would be a black belt in karate, with bullet scars on his left shoulder and right leg, thick red hair, and impressive dimensions (6′2″, 190 pounds, and a “9″ dick”). Emboldened by his new identity, Montgomery logged onto Pogo in the spring of 2005 and met TalHotBlondbig50 — a 17-year-old from West Virginia, whose name, he later learned, was Jessica.

He began instant-messaging “Jessi,” who later also went by the handle “peaches_06_17,” and the lies flowed easier with every press of the Return key. His mom had died of cancer when he was 12, he told her, and his father was a military man. At 17, Tommy had raped a cheerleader, and his life became so hopeless that he enlisted in the Marines. After a stint at boot camp in June to train as a sniper, he was headed to Iraq. Montgomery concocted elaborate ruses to maintain Tommy’s cover story, creating a second identity as Tommy’s dad, Tom Sr., who bore a striking resemblance to the real Montgomery. Tommy’s access to the Internet was supposedly limited because of his military duties, so Dad, as Jessi soon referred to him, began shuttling messages between the two lovers. He also told Jessi to send any mail and packages for Tommy to him, because he had contacts in Iraq and could get them to the young marine quickly.”

Continued.

The 2nd mixtape is up.

You can listen to it here on the site, or click here to download it, or subscribe to the podcast and have this and future mixtapes delivered straight to iTunes.

 

 002: Returning from Wars: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

1. While I’m Away (Keep the Faith) - Eddy G. Giles & The Jive Five
2. Shine A Light - The Rolling Stones
3. I Shall Be Released - The Band
4. Hold on Dear Brother - The Beach Boys
5. Dear Landlord - Bob Dylan
6. Poison Cup - M. Ward
7. Never Let Go - Tom Waits
8. Lights Out- Zerben R Hicks & The Dynamics
9. Lonely Soldier - William Bell
10. Nothing Takes the Place of You - Toussaint McCall
11. Another Soldier Gone - The Violinaires

(If you missed the first mixtape, you can download it here )

Here’s how to subscribe to the podcast and get each mixtape delivered straight to iTunes as soon as it’s posted.

1) Open iTunes.

2) In the Advanced pull down menu, select Subscribe to Podcast.

3) A window will open, asking for a URL. Cut and paste this URL into the window: http://lammerkowski.com/apophenia/?feed=rss2&cat=5 . Hit Ok.

4) That’s it, you’re subscribed.

Every time a podcast goes up, it will end up in the podcast area of your iTunes, where you can listen to it, or drag it onto your iPod. Chapters are enabled so you can see what song you’re listening to. If you want to skip around, use the Chapters pull down menu (it’s along the top of your sceen when you have iTunes open, between Window and Help) which has a full list of songs.

(This should also work with a non-iTunes RSS Podcast grabber.  If you have any trouble, send me an email aaronlammer@gmail.com)

The history of giants. 

from a collection of anonymous vintage photographs.

 

 Lee Moses - "The Dark End of the Street": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

from Time and Place

Photographs from Cairo.

Hand-drawn sleeves for fictional soul albums, 1970s.

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