http://www.frmb2u.com b in sync with your world Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:11:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Spira dear, A strange day today, the weather hot and heavy as ever my childhood drought-days were, except I am displaced, nowhere near my native soil, and parched as hell. What is New York City to some small town (pretender to a city) called Benoni? (Son of my Sorrow: I ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/06/08/weeping-whispers.html One looks down from the Brooklyn Bridge on a spot of foam or a little lake of gasoline or a broken splinter or an empty scow; the world goes by upside down with pain and light devouring the innards, the sides of flesh bursting, the spears pressing in against the ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/05/24/125-years-standing.html WELL NOW. If you're in the market for new wheels you have some tough choices: regular gas guzzler or healthy hybrid? SUV or one size down? Free gas for a year, or fixed-price gas for three years? Chrysler, for example, offers a gas card that sets your gas price at ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/05/22/the-future-of-the-us-automobile.html THIS morning, from stuntprogrammer: "Doesn't anyone do the Right Thing anymore?" The bigger the issue, the more money and politics and human lives it involves, it seems to me, the less the chances are of the Right Thing being done. Some background to the conversation: everyone (sane) is up in arms ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/05/17/the-right-thing.html RECENTLY The Economist reported on another spate of suicides in Japan: in April this year alone, 60 people took their own lives, following a recipe found on a website for creating a deadly gas, hydrogen-sulphide. Last year, Toshikatsu Matsuoka, the sitting Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan hanged ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/05/16/7-things-suicide-in-japan.html Dearest Spira It's a ragged morning. I am thinking of Chinatown, San Francisco, with you, that oriental connection that drums us. Today the pounding is deafening, echoing from across the Himalayas. Any minute I think the day may quake, fold in on itself. How can it not, when there are thousands ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/05/15/the-guardians-speak.html This morning is sun-drenched, buildings afire with orange light. New York city is peaceful beneath clear skies, the hum and thrum of daily life just beginning. Here, we are not dying by the thousand. On the other side of the world corpses lie rotting on river banks. Ten days ago entire villages were wiped out by Cyclone Nargis. Who is ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/05/14/fractured-world.html The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (from amazon.com) MARK HADDON did not start out to write a book about autism or Asperger's Syndrome. In fact, nowhere in the story is Asperger's mentioned: the only references to the condition are usually found in the blurb on the ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/04/18/curiouser-and-curiouser.html THE best of London. The worst of London. For the love of London. Nostalgia, dysfunctional families, mysticism of Clerkenwell, and horrible places to live. Stephen Coates as a mad matriarch and quirky sex symbol. Part Three Part Four Filming for Dreams money can buy, sounds of Cibella, David Piper's moustache and rolling ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/04/10/clerkenwell-kid.html I LOVE the thought that some day, somewhere, I may walk into a facility which has barely recognisable variations on our regular porcelain thrones, faucets in unusual places, lubrication stations, and possibly mirrors where one might least expect them. No, I'm not dreaming of a seedy motel somewhere off Route ... http://www.frmb2u.com/2008/04/08/restrooms-of-the-future.html