Small Craft Advisory: September 25th Science Museum

URGENT – MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE WEATHER SERVICE 906 PM PDT TUES SEPTEMBER 25 2018 WATERS FROM HERE TO THERE AND ALL AROUND 906 PM PDT TUES SEPTEMBER 25 2018 …SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT… THE WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WARNING IT ISN’T SO MUCH THE GOING AS IT IS THE ARRIVING   * HOW […]

URGENT – MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE

WEATHER SERVICE

906 PM PDT TUES SEPTEMBER 25 2018

WATERS FROM HERE TO THERE AND ALL AROUND

906 PM PDT TUES SEPTEMBER 25 2018

…SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT…

THE WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WARNING

IT ISN’T SO MUCH THE GOING AS IT IS THE ARRIVING

* HOW DO YOU PLAN TO GET HOME…IT MAY NOT HAVE OCCURRED TO YOU THAT YOU ARE ALREADY AS HOME AS YOU GET…IT MIGHT SEEM FRIGHTENING AT FIRST…THE ADVISORY OFTEN SIT ON THE DECK AT NIGHT WHEN THE SEA IS CALM AND LOOK UP INTO THE SKY…WE THINK OF ASTRONAUTS…TO BE AT SEA, TO BE IN SPACE…ONE MUST ACCEPT A CERTAIN UNSTEADINESS…BUT YOU CAN STILL GROW TOMATOES…YOU MAY ORIENT YOURSELF BY OBJECTS…YOU MIGHT HOLD ONE THING IN YOUR HAND AND CLOSE YOUR EYES AND LEARN ITS SHAPE IN SUCH A WAY THAT EVEN IF YOU NEVER OPENED YOUR EYES AGAIN YOU WOULD KNOW THIS THING IF YOU FOUND IT IN THE WORLD

* THE SKY, LIKE THE OCEAN, IS DEEP AND FULL OF CREATURES…WHEN YOU GET PAST THE SURFACE…IT’S A LITTLE LIKE THAT, AT LEAST

* WHAT WOULD YOU PUT IN A MUSEUM?

Marginalia:

how many birds you’ll see before you die – Mary Karr – celebrities on Tinder – swipe right on Wittgenstein – the trolley problem as a pick-up line – Wittgenstein was really hot – Robert Falcon Scott – penguin orgy – Proust’s submarine – is Neal Stephenson is a big coat guy – we went to the moon using mostly metal – we built this city on lust and ambition – the aesthetics of usability in space – Sally Ride, lesbian in space – – touching a large hunk of ice – retreating to the history of the bicycle – THE PROBLEM OF CLIMATE CHANGE IS THAT WE TEACH CHILDREN IN MUSEUMS THAT WE MUST SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT BUT WE NEVER MENTION THE CORPORATE CAPITALISTIC STRUCTURES INDEED FORCES OF EVIL THAT ARE WORKING AGAINST US – this is almost a bicycle – who wrote the good sexy mummy scene? the best one? – “there’s nothing in this room and that makes it so pleasing” – Swiss jollyball clockwork – Colleen Moore’s fairy castle – Rumer Godden – “for some reason we kept videotaping” a good genre of scary film.