Jackson's Island (a.k.a. et in arcadia?)

… if you stll read

another beautiful Borneo music blog

Nice blog on native Borneo music.

I also remember the coffee-colored river. It seemed to flow out of a childhood storybook, peaceful and familiar, continue its sluggish way beneath the moon and the stars and the tropical sun, and then pick up force and become that opaque uncontrollable thing roaring in your ears, blinding your eyes, rushing relentlessly round the bends of understanding, beyond the banks of imagination.

Kinky Friedman: Jungle Fever

Texas Monthly, November 2002

Food for thought & eye candy

thenewinquiry:

“I’m sure that you have read that arresting little story from the pen of Washington Irving entitled Rip Van Winkle. The thing that we usually remember about this story is that Rip Van Winkle slept 20 years. But there is another point in that story that is almost always completely…