{"id":1423,"date":"2005-05-20T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/05\/20\/the-architecture-is-brick-homes-built-too-close-together\/"},"modified":"2005-05-20T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T12:59:00","slug":"the-architecture-is-brick-homes-built-too-close-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/05\/20\/the-architecture-is-brick-homes-built-too-close-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The architecture is brick homes built too close together."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/13902139\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos10.flickr.com\/13902139_f2962f541d.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/13902512\/\">everyday people<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/foxtongue\/\">Foxtongue<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>My friends page flaunts its rockstar status today as <a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeshakes.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">coffeeshakes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/theremina.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">theremina<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/kylecassidy.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">kylecassidy<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/evi_13thchild.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">evi_13thchild<\/a> all spill about thier lovely time as photographers at the NIN\/Dresden Dolls show last night. <\/p>\n<p>In other news, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4550069.stm\">piano man<\/a> may have been identified. I&#8217;ve been enthralled with the story, it&#8217;s given me a magic rush of wonder and joy. I want to hear him play, I want a recording of his fingers on the keys. There&#8217;s not a lot to make me genuinely happy lately but this? This has been a heartbeat to hold me still in one thundering clap. <\/p>\n<p>(Then again, there&#8217;s the antitheses, the man in Holland who skinned his mother. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/tm_objectid=15511190&#038;method=full&#038;siteid=89488&#038;headline=killer-directs-traffic-wearing-mum-s-skin-name_page.html\"><i>He was seen directing traffic in her skin and dressed in one of her dresses as he recited texts from the Bible.<\/i><\/a> That&#8217;s as wondrous, but the damned other direction.)<\/p>\n<p>Last night was the first lightning storm of the year. The first I&#8217;ve seen since taking Gavin out of Calgary almost a year ago. I stood on the Burrard street bridge in soaking Italia rain and drank with my eyes. How time spreads it&#8217;s wings over me, it&#8217;s a little scary. How will I feel about this in a year? Last year this time it was like the stars were descending and bathing me in silver light and now I&#8217;m subtly changed again. This happens all the time, but how often do I notice? Going home was good for me. I found that I knew the streets better than my own life lines, that I was dancing without thinking about it when I stopped for a red light. People tried to give me change when I was waiting for the subway to lightly rumble into station. They gave me change. They gave me conversation and their smiles. The air is different there, like it&#8217;s different in L.A. It&#8217;s not the pollution count or the change in greenery, either. It&#8217;s something more to do with how I taste places, how Los Angeles carries an unidentifiable sheen of new product scent, like every bit of cloth you&#8217;ve ever bought from a store before washing has been atomized and sent into the sky, but Toronto has a satisfaction to it, like the buildings are self aware and content with the creatures that scurry around thier solid rectangle feet. <\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softlab.ece.ntua.gr\/~sivann\/pub\/swf\/may02-smilepop-soapbox4.s\">404 baby<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdharris.net\/404.html\">404 blackhole<\/a>\n<p>I wonder at myself, that I have been living half in memory this whole month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>everyday people Originally uploaded by Foxtongue. My friends page flaunts its rockstar status today as coffeeshakes, theremina, kylecassidy, and evi_13thchild all spill about thier lovely time as photographers at the NIN\/Dresden Dolls show last night. In other news, the piano man may have been identified. I&#8217;ve been enthralled with the story, it&#8217;s given me a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2005\/05\/20\/the-architecture-is-brick-homes-built-too-close-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The architecture is brick homes built too close together.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}