Large Format Closes

The conversation has ended. The last of QT’s gymboree have called it quits. Down is their holder, up is their phone.

not with a bang… but Oh, what a whimper

They no longer listen with open ears. Perhaps thinking themself a higher being, being that you use a big camera, thins your blood and your skin.

Worser, even. The web pages of the published members … a collection of 404s.

“Published work — Not Found”

… so it goes. Advice from the lovelorn

When they can’t keep a stream or a thought. simple things become big bad loud things. the mods don’t seem to understand that the one person they keep is the one they should quiet.

small questions with Big Ego responders are more explosive than any bare spark in a room filled with nail polish… even the gossip girrls know that.

Of course the Forum hasn’t Closed. I think it is long past any new information. Not that there isn’t something more to say, or say in a more refreshing way, however, the people with honesty and honestly interesting stories have long since abandoned the premises. The promise has failed; the reason is past. It will remain, since QT and friends have, apparently, nowhere else to go.

This is their stomping ground; their piece of the pond.

for reasons ask: wiley words /\ wiley photrio

19mar23: overnight

home cooking: he brags about steak from his freezer
sushi isn’t thawed-- 

beef isn’t frozen. farm to table isn’t a home path way
the most nutritious meals aren’t made at home. uniform cooking is what the fast food industry provides. working to a standard is what a best lab achieves. that standard is set-able by the client.
not in some “fresh-water” fantasy way, but in a work to example print.

difference between hand lab and machine lab
AIM points


It was natural that he should care nothing for any abstract speculation or inquiry; he was an artist throughout, desiring only the refracted light of human imperfection, never the purity of colourless reason. – Percy Lubbock on Henry James, Introduction to The Letters of Henry James (London: Macmillan & Co., 1920), Vol. I., p. xxvii


½ teaspoon hot chile powder, preferably Thai or Lao
4 teaspoons fish sauce (nam pla)
5 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice
¼ cup slivered red onions
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
2 tablespoons sliced scallions
10 whole mint leaves, more for serving
 Lettuce leaves
 cucumber spears, for serving

sushi is never frozen
there is no “authentic Chinese” from Oregon


realism has a past
abstraction never happens

better to have birthday on fresh friday than leftover thursday

smug ass not smart. often, similarity is familiarity. losers flock around QTs play pool
They don’t share, they show off. they best you, not better you.