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Subject: Reviews of Books I like 177 Wilson Avenue
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:54:19 -0500 (EST)
Reviews of Books I like 177 Wilson Avenue We returned from West Virginia with a Bearcat Scanner Radio from 1981. It has only 50 channels, works perfectly, however, and keeps me in touch with neighborhood doings. She knows where I am, SP 1 and 2. Radio Shack in the US carries Police Call Frequency Guide: Codes, Maps, Trunking. Grey vehicle with a white door. Stand by. The 2005 North-East book (Volume 1) is 384 pages. Two shots fired from a blue Honda Civic right around the corner from us. The book gives frequencies from police, taxis, race-cars (?!), business, airports, etc.; it also gives police and other codes so that one knows what's happening beyond the 104. Highly recommended. I'm mentioning the book here because it's difficult to find scanning lists off-line, and at least this computer interferes a bit. Clearing the area of bystanders. 10-10 possible crime. The Daily Practice of Painting, Gerhard Richter, Writings 1962-1003, edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, MIT, 2002. Telephone alarm 145 Ocean Avenue, fire in Apartment 30 on the third floor. The book is brilliant, and looser than I'd expect; Richter is one of my favorite painters, one of the most interesting still. There is much on specific series of works, photographs of the painter, materials on aesthetics, and an anti-ideological position which is spelled out in numerous ways. 1753. 10-4. Go with the numbers. Highly recommended. He was strong-armed, punched in the face, and money was taken. Zen and the Ways, Trevor Leggett, Tuttle, 1988. This book, dissimilar to many others on Zen, stresses Kamakura Zen, Kamakura Koans, with numerous original texts. This was samurai zen, warrior zen, fierce and quick and appealing. Nothing comes back on that plate, no records. The night interview of the Nun Myotei is haunting. 246 Ferry Street, 724, Code 3, male in the car not moving or breathing. There are sections on The Ways and Texts of the Ways. It is night reading as well. 55 EMS. Material on ri, ji, shin, ki; on the Jujutsu school Shin-no-Shin-To-Ryu, on the Itto School, wonderful. Fight on the second floor. Dispositions, McKenzie Wark, Salt, 2002. Of this more sometime later. Smoke in the basement private dwelling. Additional 1014. Brooklyn to the 41, Westbound on Flatbush Ladder 159. Dispatcher 445. This work reminds me of the best of Karl Kraus, Benjamin, what Baudrillard might have been. It is organized by readings from a Garmin Etrex GPS device; each section is headed by readouts representing the (primal) scene of its writing/birth. The readouts include date, time, position (including altitude), and accuracy. Negative K, might be in Manhattan. Pedestrian struck by automobile near 63 Orchard Flatbush Avenue. The sections are intricate and terse, turning around aesthetic, cultural, and sociological aporia. Respond to box 1566. Smoke on the first floor multiple dwellings. There are considerations of Kathy Acker, the Met, unfinished books, cities and airports, codework, epistemology and punctuation. This is literally a must-read for anyone interested in globality and its incursions. 10130, 459 Maple. I have to clear this up. The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen, New Directions, 1968. I am revisiting Patchen after all these years and Orange Bears and the poems and other pieces are even more wonderful than I remember. Post 11. Stand by for the next dispatch. You got a 757 with the K-9 Unit, Harry. Are you all right over there? Right now I'm with the Chief Unit 100. Themes, Miriam and love, Christ walking around and talking just like you or me, are repeated, there are flowers and killings, and the intensity is amazing. I found a long article on Patchen by Henry Miller; it's on the Web if you search for it. Two male blacks with a black coats, fled toward White Avenue on foot. Near Franklin and Bedford. 75 Victor at 1077 New York Avenue. "I have but a bullet left / and there are so many things to kill." I'm home again. Track fire on the David line, Coney-Island bound, near Utrecht Avenue. Have a victim, cardiac, Franklin Avenue, seizure. "Do you have a badge around your neck, like a real cop? That means you pay." - This interrupting. 10-4. Yuan Dao: Tracing Dao to Its Source, translated by D.C. Lau and Roger T. Ames, Ballantine, 1998. Ames' introduction is brilliant. Which car, Sergeant? Box with plastic wrapping on it, next to a hydrant. Corner of President and Utica. This is an extremely important Taoist text, related to Daodejing and Zhuangzi, stressing triggering, water symbolism, accommodation, and the "Gerundical Dao." The text is short but requires a great deal of time to absorb. Its style is equal to the others, although it was written late second-century bce. Dispatchers on the 539, 739. I got a 39. The text seems to me to be unique in its stressing of ecological considerations; by virtue of the Dao, nature-ing. Oddly reminds one of Marcus Aurelius. Open door on Henry. Windows XP Annoyances For Geeks, David A. Karp, O'Reilly, 2004. This is an update of a book already reviewed - but this is an entirely new work, covering SP2 among other things. This may well be the best book available on tuning. Injured skater up on Community. Have them come to door #6 on the side of the building. Church fire. Broken down pickup truck. Recommend an ATA for a 36. There is a lot here for geeks as well - VBS scripting for automation, hardware troubleshooting, etc. Like the other O'Reilly books, it's detailed in terms of how things work. 71 call for help. The book is expensive, $34.95, but well worth it. It's extremely cold out. The dispatcher _sieves, distributes, filters._ Redundancy's kept to a minimum. I find myself distracted by this internet of the real, these vectors laid and relayed across the square mile that constitutes my neighborhood. In the midst of a sentence, incoming; I'll move it to the end. Mind Hacks, Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain, Tom Stafford & Matt Webb, O'Reilly 2005. By all means get this book, which is an absolutely unique description of the working of the mind - in practical, hacking, terms, with numerous Web references. Calls for help in Bushwick. The picture that emerges is that of a dynamic brain which doesn't map or model digitally; instead, it's a complex dialectic of frequencies, internal and external stimuli, locations and transmuted locations, retinal and other imminent learnings, etc. An accident by Bergen and Chancellor, possible 908. Don't know if anyone was hurt. Private house with smoke. Negative, anonymous caller who hung up. The hacks, by the way, are useful; I've incorporated some of the ideas into virtual modeling. If I were teaching new media, this is one of the books I'd use. All units stand by. 315. 315. Drifting of snow is expected. Snow will begin to fall at twelve-hundred hours. Plan A and Plan B emergencies. Drama Contemporary, Germany, edited by Carl Weber, Johns Hopkins, 1996. This has plays by Strauss, Tabori, Seidel, Pohl, Dorst, Jelinek, and Muller. I particularly love the Muller and the Jelinek (who just won the Nobel Prize for literature). Alpha zero three one six zero five five six six nine two. The Jelinek was a revelation, amazing, related to Heidegger and Arendt; after reading it, I read The Piano Teacher and Women as Lovers and will eventually order the rest of her work. It is torrid, dry, Duras, Beckett, Kraus, and amazing; the intensity drives it like Gillian Welch, inescapable. All of the plays here are brilliant, believe it or not; I've been missing out. 104 Montgomery Street, Washington and Franklin. Jelinek's is Totenauberg (Death/Valley/Summit); Muller's is Mommsen's Block; Tabori's is Mein Kampf. A Theory of Fun for Game Design, Raph Koster, Paraglyph, 2005. What can I say? This is exactly it. I don't have any units available for this job. Supposed to be a private house. One item. Dispute. Call for help Greene Avenue. This book reminds me of the late Wittgenstein, deceptively simple, concerned with the habitus of game-play, expectation suites (my term), player/human concerns within and without the game-world, and so forth. I'll be using this for my own virtual work this summer; I recommend it as a way of clarifying intent, structure, and phenomenology of one's work. There is text only on the left-hand page, illustration on the right, but the cost is relatively cheap at $23. Armed man. "Even if players can see through fiction, the art of the game includes that fiction." Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments, Gary R. Bunt, Pluto, Critical Studies on Islam, 2003. The kids live in the same building. Be advised. I will be reviewing this elsewhere, and am reading it now; I wanted to mention it as a guide - including a huge listing of websites - to online Islam. The book is oddly careful and "nervous," perhaps for obvious reasons. A wide-range of Islamic practices are described. Robber, first floor. The numbers for that search. I think detailed work, along these lines, is necessary on all fronts - it takes loose ideological cartels as beginning-points, and examines practices within them - instead of, for example, beginning with the "blog-structure" and proceeding out of it. Different forms of jihad are described, including inner, greater, and lesser. There are sections on 9-11, Islamic diversity, Sunni Religious Authority, and so forth. 34 in progress, male black choked. Missing female black, 11 years old, Charisma D. wearing red shirt, cloak, coat, hat, and blue jeans, last seen this morning. Please notify, anxious. White Volkswagen, check conditions if you will. And check out Razorsmile #3 - I always love this magazine, this one features chaos magick/tarot - go to http://homepage.ntlworld.com/matt.lee7/razorsmile. Good writing by Matt and Morrigan, whom (who?) some of you may know. Accompanying cd-rom. Habitual runaway. Second floor. Figure Skating for Dummies, Kristi Yamaguchi, IDG, 1997. This is one of the best guides ever to the sport; I could well have used this during the Tonya Harding / Nancy Kerrigan debacle. For all sorts of reasons, I'm fascinated by Figure Skating; this is the best guide I've seen. Lighten up Frank. Don't call me Frank. Figure Skating is the "knot" between sports and the social, and the "knot" among issues of gender, muscle, creativity, restraint, intelligence. It plays out among all of them; in a sense, every event is an essay. 1403 New York Avenue. 1085. That unit. The Aryan Christ, The Secret Life of Carl Jung, Richard Nol, Random House, 1977. I'm fascinated by this work on Jung's spiritual interests and associations. Corrected address 3025 Ocean Avenue. 169. 64 Woodhaven Westbound. Thin build, 5' 4", 130 pounds, she has brown hair, brown eyes, wears glasses, 13 years old. I've always found Jung both fascinating and problematic, veering towards the Aryan imaginary; this book goes a way in explanation. I've read this "out of context," not "being" a Jungian, so I have no other critical guidance than my own sparse understanding. But I do recommend this, if only for the sources - for that matter, I tend to believe in its findings. I've got him out on the -. Oklahoma plates. Godey's Lady's Book, 1866, edited by Sarah Hale. Godey's was the most popular 19th-century woman's magazine in the United States; it ran from the early part of the century until 1898. Sarah Hale, an early and problematic feminist, edit it for most of its life. 12827. The illustrations are found ripped out and framed in numerous antique shops; on the other hand, if you can find a full issue, purchase it; the reading is excellent and one might learn more about 19th-century daily life from it, than any other source. There are stories, book reviews, poetry, all of interest. Mobilization point is the gas station on Auburn Street. She's was wearing red and black sneakers. Should I pick up my dog yet. (Something tells me I've already reviewed this and a few others - but I can't find the reviews anywhere. In my mind, then, perhaps, or perhaps you know better.) Prayer Book for Sabbath and Festivals, Translated and Annotated with an Introduction by Philip Birnbaum, Hebrew Publishing Company, New York, 1950. I've wanted to write on the Siddur for a while now, and this seems like an excellent standard edition. You need to respond to the second floor. Information is available upon request. There are notes and alternative readings. The Siddur is the heart of Orthodox daily practice; like all religious texts, there are ideological embeddings, subtexts, etc. I hope to do at least a partial deconstructive reading of the work. In general - with any number of religions - prayers are rarely analyzed; even with Shinto, while the Norita have been translated, actual practice and texts are rarely described. (I'm sure there are technical journals with such information, but it's not readily available.) Jeans, red hat, red coat. The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll, Macmillan, 1933. Includes illustrations. I understand Deleuze's fascination. The work is not only beautiful; it's almost literally indescribable. What seems simple really isn't - He used to live in the building, doesn't live there any more, hangs around there. Michael Maldenado, hispanic, mustache, short hair, they call him Sparko, walk down Bergen Street. That was a big word there, I got you. 10-4 Good Night. There are issues of capital, technology, reworked nature, all at play; even nonsense is self-critiqued; the pieces reference each other; oddly enough, the children are hardly present. Charley's requesting a sergeant. Then there are the erotics of his photography; check out Alison Smith, editor, Exposed: The Victorian Nude, Watson-Guptill, New York. It continues to be difficult to focus. TD involved in an MDA. There are sirens outside the window uncorrelated with the scanner background sirens. 311 fire location. I think I'm letting you down, that these reviews aren't up to the usual, that centripetal daily life interferes, exhales. Every apartment is a lockdown. Bush spreads freedom while our jail population, mainly "minority," is well over two million. Spread the jails around the world - more money for corporate usa. 111 Police Boulevard. Confirmed fifteen-year-old habitual runaway. To be reviewed: Phyllis Chesler, The new Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It; Tony Northrup and Eric Faulkner, Home Hacking Projects for Geeks; Frances Crosby, Poems of a Blind Girl. He's not answering. 37 George. Disregard, disregard. Disregard that. Family dispute. 3214 Beverly Road. 10-4. Altercation. Automatic alarm at the mall. Ex-boyfriend fighting there, destroying the house, 2143, code 3. _