Levity
- This is so weird.
- Hmm.
- This bunch of sites at www.levity.com. Half of them haven't been updated since 1998. One of the authors died years ago, but the site is still up.
- You should be so lucky.
- How did Vito find this? The look and feel of these sites - it's ancient. These buttons and crazy colors and unformatted paragraphs - what were they thinking?
- Haven't you got anything better to do?
- Here's a site that's current. It offers a course on how to read "alchemical texts" for £25.
- You don't have £25.
- I didn't say I wanted it.
- As if that has ever stopped you.
- Look, John Seabrook. What's he doing in this gang?
- The New Yorker guy?
- Wait. He's not in it anymore. His site has moved. Figures. What has he done lately?
- Always with the questions.
- But this guy whom Vito linked to says that Lubbock is 365 miles southeast of Austin. 365 miles southeast of Austin would be an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. I should write to Vito to tell him that Lubbock is northwest of Austin.
- Vito will be thrilled.
- How did he find this stuff?
- With his Masked Avengers Secret Decoder Ring.
- Do you think they meant to call it levitate-dot-com?
Comments
I just scanned the Alchemy site to find a Secret Decoder Ring, but no luck. It's fun anyway.
Posted by: Ozma | July 21, 2005 10:54 AM
Well, what a dunce I am. Who do you read first? How much research must one do, how many links must a man run down? Passing through Outer Life just now I was taken by today's item and another recent item and reminded of a very good older item so I posted the links on my site. And, then I come to good 'ol DB only to find I should have been here first. Oh well. Vito's "The Book" is still a unique and memorable piece.
The bad compass reference in the linked page about Lubbock is unfortunate. The 365 miles southeast belongs in the previous paragraph so that the writer is barreling towards Austin some 365 miles southeast of Lubbock, and then in the next paragraph Lubbock can be flat and mysterious which I know to be true, the flat part at least. Gilmore, Hancock, and Ely are the properly noted names of the Lubbock music scene that meshed with the Austin scene which included Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt just to name a few. Left out of the Lubbock line up would be Joseph Brunelle who was often seen in Austin and Corpus Christi. When Nancy Griffith sings about Lockney I know where it is, just northeast of Lubbock, on a route I have run scores of times coming out of New Mexico on the way to Mangum, Oklahoma.
As always, read DB first it saves alot of time and false starts.
Posted by: George | July 22, 2005 01:50 AM