Cheap Shit from China Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. In a continuing series, I follow the big shipping containers of cheap shit from China one more step closer to their source. This is a China Shipping Line container ship on its way into San Francisco Bay. Previously in this series: Shipping the cheap shit back More …
reading: Endangered Species, Steve Younger’s discussion of the complexities of being a pacifist nuclear weapons designer reading II: Just finished – Howl on Trial, a collection of letters from in and around the time of the publication of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, along with transcripts of the obscenity trial that are an absolute hoot. music: Epistrophy, …
Just an FYI, PlanetFleck will be shutting down within a day or two. I post this here because there seem to be four or possibly five people reading it regularly, but I only know who two or three of them are (and one of those is me). Its original purpose was to give me an …
Big Toe in Chinatown Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Big Toe met up with us while we were in San Francisco. Before he came to Inkstain, he worked for some time for a jade importer in Chinatown, and he spent a few hours showing me around and introducing me to some of his old friends. The …
Thanks to Luis ((Luis Villa)) and some guy named Simon ((Simon Elvery)), Inkstain is now footnote-enabled. Yay Simon!
Fort Point Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Postmodernism is a notoriously tricky thing to define. Standing on Fort Point, poking out into the Golden Gate, looking for the place where Kim Novak jumped into the water in Vertigo, trying to commit suicide (Or was she?), only to have Jimmy Stewart fish her out, is a clear …
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Crosstown TrafficOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I had a friend years ago in California, Victor, who was fun to talk to because he was so bafflingly smart. Among his many interests (he also imagined the Internet before there was one) was the way we map our personal geographies of the world around us. I was thinking …
Los Angeles FireOriginally uploaded by Chucks Chicken. When I was a kid, the mountain behind my Southern California home burned. We could see the fire coming many miles and hours away, creeping west across the front face of the San Gabriels. By midday, they sent us home from school, and I vividly remember (I must …
Folks claiming to be Alan Johnston’s kidnappers have delivered a tape to al-Jazeera outlining their demands: The tape includes a demand for the release of Muslim prisoners in British jails, and readings from the Koran.
No Plagues Today Originally uploaded by Malcolm Tredinnick. Malcolm caught this. Click through if you can’t read the fine print.