tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post8370377751235116160..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: The BBC and Richard Brautigan's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving GraceIssa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-52856766672873569402011-06-18T14:16:44.385-04:002011-06-18T14:16:44.385-04:00I've always found this to be one of the most c...I've always found this to be one of the most curious of Brautigan's poems. The BBC has an interesting take on it. What do you think, Don? What was B. saying about technology? He loved movies but hated TV. His imagination was uncommonly rich. Your Issa selections are stunning. Nice connection with the pigeons in Shawn's poem, too.Theresa Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00103717736011804799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-66880490469080034422011-06-17T13:19:37.988-04:002011-06-17T13:19:37.988-04:00yeah
phunny as a crutch!
those last punch-cards ...yeah<br /><br />phunny as a crutch!<br /><br />those last punch-cards and those hanging chards<br />(in Florida) not too long ago<br /> got us into the mess that we are now in.<br /><br />I'm now waiting for The Computer that will 'get me off'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-47003817032385707642011-06-17T13:05:55.320-04:002011-06-17T13:05:55.320-04:00Bowing east,
toward you,
& all,
kokkie-san
A...Bowing east,<br />toward you,<br />& all, <br />kokkie-san<br /><br />All this funny little punch cards,with the funny little<br />holes.<br /><br />Messy, indeed.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-87983586856984461252011-06-17T11:31:59.033-04:002011-06-17T11:31:59.033-04:00here is the system that I operated in 1961-62
http...here is the system that I operated in 1961-62<br />http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1401.html<br /><br />for Main Navy Rickover was my boss...<br /><br />I switched to the 4 to 12 pm shift (to get away from that moronic IBM Kulchur<br />and went to school during the day and studied Existential ism<br /><br />just ghot a chill in my boddhi AND a tear in my eye listening to Roy Orbison in this clip<br /><br />as for Richard Brautigan I met him in a saloon once<br />when I was hitch-hiking around. He bought me a beer<br /><br />this was before I dropped out<br /><br />one of the things that I found out after droppingbackin was (and this was in about 2002)<br /><br />was thartRichard blew his brains out ! Left a note<br /><br />(that I think it was his daughter who found it):<br /> "Messy, isn't it?"<br /><br /><br />also came to find out<br />that<br />many many many of the people who I knew 7 admired, read and corresponded with were also deaD!<br /><br />so, I wrote this "shortie"<br /><br />searching the stars<br />for intelligent life<br />damn little of it here<br /><br /><br />K.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-91677298160584761032011-06-17T10:47:08.974-04:002011-06-17T10:47:08.974-04:00Charles, I think we are a lot closer to knowing th...Charles, I think we are a lot closer to knowing than RB was 50 years ago when he wrote this ...Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-52902749531794288012011-06-17T10:38:37.387-04:002011-06-17T10:38:37.387-04:00I'm now wondering what a cybernetic meadow wou...I'm now wondering what a cybernetic meadow would look like.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-29997602333444710982011-06-17T10:31:07.967-04:002011-06-17T10:31:07.967-04:00Very glad to say that the recovery prognosis is go...Very glad to say that the recovery prognosis is going along well - thanks for the kind words, very much appreciated.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-14989935159443751812011-06-17T10:21:51.588-04:002011-06-17T10:21:51.588-04:00wow - it is great to read that Richard Brautigan p...wow - it is great to read that Richard Brautigan poem. yeah, the trailer... looks like a strange and normal-as-usual oddity series... eerie.<br /><br />...and you say you're recovering with all that running through your skull? good recovery energy on you - machines or not. <br /><br />altho i must also say - excellent poem choices all the way through - recovery just may be possible with this kind of reading. <br /><br />alohaWrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11508727428020453777noreply@blogger.com