A Year of Traffic
*Published daily in 2012
January
1/1 the dream of the open road
1/2 no delay
1/3 no u-turn
1/4 no parking any time
1/5 winding road
1/6 dip
1/7 pothole city
1/8 shift gears
1/9 carpool
1/10 is god your co-pilot?
1/11 click it or ticket
1/12 road work ahead
1/13 fines doubled
1/14 narrow lanes
1/15 be prepared to stop
1/16 keep your hands on the wheel
1/17 you’ve got to be fucking kidding me
1/18 detour
1/19 soft shoulder
1/20 blind curve
1/21 use daytime headlights
1/22 rubbernecking
1/23 snarl-up
1/24 bumpertobumper
1/25 a sudden break
1/26 crossroads
1/27 do not block intersection
1/28 do not pass
1/29 one way
1/30 last exit
1/31 yield
February
2/1 come on let’s take the long cut
we’ll get there eventually
~ Uncle Tupelo, “The Long Cut”
2/2 you go on ahead for a while
I would like to just follow you awhile
~ Sunset Rubdown, “You Go on Ahead (Trumpet Trumpet II)”
2/3 I am the passenger
and I ride and I ride
~ Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”
2/4 telephone poles trees and wires fly on by
car wheels on a gravel road
~ Lucinda Williams, “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road”
2/5 I see the junction git nearer’
and danger is in the wind
and either road’s lookin’ grim
~ Judee Sill, “Jesus Was a Crossmaker”
2/6 80 miles an hour with a worn out map
~ Drive-By Truckers, “The Righteous Path”
2/7 I think last night
you were driving circles
around me
~ Kristin Hersh, “Your Ghost”
2/8 I been here so long
my heart is a parking lot
~ Wolf Parade, “Language City”
2/9 promising light on the sidewalk girls
~ Iron & Wine, “Promising Light”
2/10 your ass it draws me in
like a Bermuda highway
~ My Morning Jacket, “Bermuda Highway”
2/11 all around your every curve
I hope to go tonight
~ Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, “Nomadic Revery (All Around)”
2/12 go downtown and eat it like a vulture
~ Missy Elliott, “Work It”
2/13 and if a double-decker bus
crashes into us
to die by your side
is such a heavenly way to die
~ The Smiths, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”
2/14 who’s gonna drive you home
tonight?
~ The Cars, “Drive”
2/15 starting and then stopping
~ Radiohead, “Let Down”
2/16 always crashing in the same car
~ David Bowie, “Always Crashing in the Same Car”
2/17 the concrete broke your fall
~ R.E.M., “Why Not Smile”
2/18 last night I dreamt
that I hit a deer with my car
blood from his heart
spilled out onto my dress and was warm
~ Neko Case, “Favorite”
2/19 dreaming of mercy street
~ Peter Gabriel, “Mercy Street”
2/20 while we sleep we know the streets
get rearranged
~ Arcade Fire, “Suburban War”
2/21 I have ridden on these waves
I have crashed into the shore
I have rolled along the floor
I will be there in no time
~ Moonface, “Dreamland EP: marimba and shit-drums”
2/22 hi-ho silver ride
~ Pavement, “Stereo”
2/23 leaving the valley
fucking out of sight
~ Gillian Welch, “Revelator”
2/24 and at once I knew
I was not magnificent
high above the highway aisle
~ Bon Iver, “Holocene”
2/25 parallel lines on a slow decline
~ Guided by Voices, “Tractor Rape Chain”
2/26 westbound and rolling
taking refuge
in the roads
~ Joni Mitchell, “Refuge of the Roads”
2/27 these days days days run away
like horses over the hills
~ Sufjan Stevens, “Star of Wonder”
2/28 we sleep in the morning
we dream of a ship that sails away
a thousand miles away
~ Brian Eno, “Spider and I”
2/29 go long! go long!
right over the edge of the earth!
~ Joanna Newsom, “Go Long”
March
3/1 Let’s try hard to win.
~ Super Monaco GP (Team Minarae)
3/2 mode 7 as far as the eye can see
~ F-Zero
3/3 get some air, do some tricks
~ SSX 3
3/4 drive erratically for psyche out takedowns
~ Burnout 3: Takedown
3/5 within punching distance
~ Road Rash
3/6 zerg rush
~ StarCraft
3/7 Before dying, you managed to kill two
hundred forty of the alien freaks who
killed everybody else.
~ ZiGGURAT
3/8 pushing onwards
~ VVVVVV (track by SoulEye)
3/9 leaving a trail of blood wherever you go
~ Super Meat Boy
3/10 a cosmic doppelgänger shadowing your
every move
~ Super Mario 3D Land
3/11 Nozomi clinging to your back
~ Shenmue
3/12 a quick time event
~ Heavy Rain
3/13 world of balance or world of ruin
~ Final Fantasy VI
3/14 apes on rocket barrels
~ Donkey Kong Country Returns
3/15 chasing bananas
~ Ms. Pac-Man
3/16 all anonymous companions
~ Journey
3/17 safe in your armor
then miscalculation
then smithereens
~ M.U.S.H.A.
3/18 here comes the Bonewagon
~ Grim Fandango
3/19 all unencumbered
nowhere to go
~ The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3/20 wind along the highway
the city in bloom
~ Flower
3/21 “How far are you going to take me?”
she says.
~ OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
3/22 dowse like you want to win!
~ The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
3/23 Step in time with the whistle.
Shake that baton.
Perfect!
~ Wii Fit Plus (Rhythm Parade)
3/24 you shall be as gods
~ Xenogears
3/25 You found Mom’s Heels!
Now run.
~ The Binding of Isaac
3/26 death to everyone
~ Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (track by Jim Guthrie)
3/27 scan the ruins
curl into a ball
~ Metroid Prime
3/28 hit the sign at top speed
try to change the past
~ Sonic CD
3/29 the end in sight
then fucked by a spiny blue shell
~ Mario Kart 64
3/30 jump the rails
smash things up
go down
spectacularly
~ Grand Theft Auto III
3/31 if you can just get back to where you died
everything will be ok
~ Demon’s Souls
April
4/1 A car traveling south on Leestown Road
lost control, went airborne, and ended up
in a stand of trees off the highway.
18-year-old seniors Allen Williams, Nick
Jacoby, and Ben Laslie died in the
accident.
(Franklin County, Kentucky ~ 2011)
4/2 Eduardo Gutierrez, 25, was driving a
1995 Infiniti north on Highway 101 when,
for unknown reasons, he lost control of his
vehicle and struck a 2010 Toyota and a
2006 Ford and then crashed into a sound
wall. Eduardo died at the scene of the
crash.
(San Mateo, California ~ 2010)
4/3 A 2009 Jeep Wrangler X ran a red light
and struck Rebecca Ann Isbell’s 1998
Saturn SC2, causing it to travel
northbound and come to rest facing south
in the northbound lanes. Rebecca, 58,
was pronounced dead at the scene by
emergency medical crews.
(Las Vegas, Nevada ~ 2009)
4/4 Christa Harvey, 21, died when the car she
was riding in slammed passenger side
first into a tree. Police reports estimated
the speed on impact at 66 miles per hour.
(Orcas Island, Washington ~ 2004)
4/5 Highway Patrolman David Bailey, 27,
died attempting to pull over a speeding
vehicle. While accelerating to catch up,
another car pulled in front of David,
causing him to skid off Interstate 85 and
down the embankment.
(Greenville County, South Carolina ~ 2000)
4/6 A 2004 Toyota pickup chased and
attempted to overtake a 2004 Ford pickup
on the Queen Ka’ahumanu Highway.
Near the 95-mile marker, the Toyota lost
control, flipped, and landed in an adjacent
lava field. Passenger Pena
Keliinohomoku, 19, died three hours later
at the community hospital.
(Kona, Hawaii ~ 2008)
4/7 An 18-wheel semi ran through a red light
and smashed broadside into a Pontiac
sedan. Barbara Ryan, 44, and her
daughter Joanna, 11, both died in the
accident.
(Bethpage, New York ~ 2010)
4/8 Jon Mustafa, 18, and Lesley Carness, 16,
were bringing a cake to her grandmother
for Easter when they were cut off by what
authorities believe was a dark-colored
Jeep Liberty. Witnesses said Jon tried to
avoid a collision by steering his Honda
Civic sharply to the right. The vehicle
rotated, hit the curb, and rolled over until it
struck a tree. The young couple died as a
result of their injuries.
(East Brunswick, New Jersey ~ 2007)
4/9 Jason Yurk, 38, and Scott Combs, 40,
were thrown from their vehicle when it
crossed the median from southbound
Interstate 43 and flipped over into a
northbound lane. Jason was pronounced
dead at the scene by paramedics. Scott
was taken by a Flight for Life helicopter
for treatment of his injuries.
(Port Washington, Wisconsin ~ 2011)
4/10 A white 1989 Pontiac Trans Am was
struck head-on by a pickup truck on route
95, four miles north of Interstate 40. Sam
Kinison, 38, died at the scene. Malika
Souiri, who had married Sam five days
earlier, survived the accident.
(Needles, California ~ 1992)
4/11 Composers James Brody and Franz
Kamin, both 68, died when their car
veered off the road and struck a tree on
Lexington Avenue. The car was traveling
about 35 miles per hour when the crash
occurred.
(Roseville, Minnesota ~ 2010)
4/12 A 13-vehicle accident occurred on
eastbound I-610 near the Elysian Fields
exit when a dump truck lost control and hit
another car, starting a chain reaction.
Shirley Wood, 76, died at the scene and
17 others were injured, including Shirley’s
daughter-in-law Bridget.
(New Orleans, Louisiana ~ 2011)
4/13 Tana Thompson, 21, died when a car
driven by her brother crashed into a ditch.
Tana’s fiancé, Chris Olson, was thrown
from the vehicle and became quadriplegic
as a result of his injuries.
(Madison, South Dakota ~ 2001)
4/14 A 1987 Volvo crashed into a utility pole on
Route 130 near Church Road. Kimyada
Albright, 22, and Charlene Henley, age
unknown, died. Driver Deborah Phillips
and Tesa Childs were seriously injured.
They were returning from a girls’ night out.
(Cinnaminson, New Jersey ~ 2000)
4/15 Volunteer firefighter Jose Ramirez, 35,
died while responding to an emergency
call. Jose’s rescue unit crashed into a
utility pole near Luna Azul and Bobby
Lane.
(Chaparral, New Mexico ~ 2006)
4/16 Sgt. Brian M. Wood, 21, died when his
vehicle pulled off the road while on patrol
and hit a land mine. Brian was a quiet and
sensitive history buff.
(Tikrit, Iraq ~ 2004)
4/17 Courtney Barber, 17, died when she
drove her Volkswagen Jetta through a
stop sign at the intersection of Sheckler
Cutoff and Highway 50 and was hit by
another vehicle. A few weeks before she
died, Courtney wrote a list of the things
she loved, which included:
really sudsy shampoo
lame jokes
“Einstein” moments
hardcore shows
dinosaurs
when you get to the hotel
when I fit in a smaller size
when people remember you
(Fallon, Nevada ~ 2010)
4/18 Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, 48, died
in a car accident while returning from a
transmitter inspection at Channel 5 in
Veracruz. As a child, Guillermo built a
laboratory in his basement. Later, he
invented one of the world’s first color
television systems.
(Puebla, Mexico ~ 1965)
4/19 Jeanne Leiby, 46, was a teacher and
editor. She also wrote stories, including
“Viking Burial”, “Vinegar Tasting”, and
“Henrietta and the Headache”. Jeanne
died when she tried to change lanes on
westbound I-10, lost control of her Saturn
convertible, hit the guardrail, and was
ejected.
(Baton Rouge, Louisiana ~ 2011)
4/20 Patricia Meehan, 37, crashed into another
vehicle on a remote stretch of Highway
200. She climbed out of the wreckage,
looked dazedly at the other driver, and
disappeared into the countryside. Patty
had strawberry blonde hair, green-gray
eyes, and freckles. She spoke very softly
with a mild eastern accent. She was never
heard from again.
(Circle, Montana ~ 1989)
4/21 Toni Lynn Vincent Berchtold, 40, cooked
for her local school district and was loved
by the students. She was the first girl to
play little league hardball in her area. She
was known to have a great sense of both
humor and clarity. Toni died when the
Ford pickup she was riding in hit a tractor-
trailer that had jackknifed in the slush on
Route 299.
(Big Valley Summit, California ~ 2003)
4/22 Massimiliano Ossari, 24, was returning
from a celebration dinner with his football
team, Thiene, when his Mercedes
collided with a truck and crashed into the
central grid separating the highway lanes.
Massimiliano died at the scene.
(Vicenza, Italy ~ 2002)
4/23 Chaneka Fenetra Stroud, 32, died when
her car flipped over on Worth Hinton
Road. Four of Chaneka’s six children
were also in the car and sustained
injuries that were not life-threatening.
The cause of the crash was not reported.
(Zebulon, North Carolina ~ 2011)
4/24 Tessa Anne Harris, 27, crossed from the
westbound to the eastbound lanes of I-64
and struck a car carrying Debra Minor
Samples, 46, head-on. Both Tessa and
Debbie died as a result. Police have yet to
determine what caused Tessa to lose
control of her car and veer into oncoming
traffic.
(Bath County, Kentucky ~ 2010)
4/25 Lisa Lopes, 30, allegedly tried to swerve
around a truck and then swerved again to
avoid an oncoming vehicle. Her rented
Mitsubishi Montero Sport rolled over
several times, and she died instantly after
being thrown out the window. The front
passenger videotaped Lisa’s final
moments, but the cause of the wreck
remains unclear.
(La Ceiba, Honduras ~ 2002)
4/26 The third Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche fled
China after the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion.
Later, he was actively involved in the
search for his reincarnated successor.
His Eminence, 37, died in a car accident
near his school for young monks and
orphans before the search could be
completed.
(Darjeeling, India ~ 1992)
4/27 On highway 175 at the Neches River
bridge, Pastor David Wilkerson, 79, died
after he crossed into the opposite lane for
unknown reasons and collided head-on
with a tractor-trailer. In his final blog entry
earlier that day, David wrote:
You will soon hear the Father whisper,
“I am with you. I cannot tell you why right
now, but one day it will all make sense.
You will see it was all part of my plan.
It was no accident.”
(Anderson County, Texas ~ 2011)
4/28 Erin and Andrew Ehrbar died after they
were broadsided while pulling out of their
driveway to go to school. Erin was 16 and
Andrew was 13.
(Granger Township, Ohio ~ 2010)
4/29 The brakes failed on a truck carrying
hazardous chemicals in the Longquan
mountain tunnel of the Chengdu-
Chongqing expressway. The runaway
truck crossed into the opposite lanes and
collided with four other vehicles. Seven
people died but the Chengdu Municipal
Party Committee Propaganda Department
would not release their names.
(Longquan, China ~ 2011)
4/30 It seemed just like any other day.
(2012)
May
5/1 car between place
5/2 start kept enough
5/3 yesterday made everything
5/4 dreams know running
5/5 point look course
5/6 no right kind
5/7 fact still day
5/8 seem long afraid
5/9 could real today
5/10 end asked far
5/11 whether sure seems
5/12 can’t being myself
5/13 what I’m like
5/14 thing things one
5/15 then something that’s
5/16 words ago happen
5/17 read reaction together
5/18 any little always
5/19 as at if
5/20 we get out
5/21 go see can
5/22 here yeah an
5/23 in but is
5/24 or have so
5/25 wasn’t same only
5/26 just don’t my
5/27 to that you
5/28 be with he
5/29 yes father tell
5/30 call life exactly
5/31 I and the
~ Charles Bernstein, “I and The”
June
6/1 Once more you hover close,
elusive shapes
my eyes but dimly glimpsed
when I was young.
Shall I now try to hold you captive?
Do these illusions still attract my heart?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust I (dedication, trans: Stuart Atkins)
6/2 Shouts, bat-cracks, full bladders and stray
yawns, the sand-grain manyness of things
that can’t be counted.
It is all falling indelibly into the past.
~ Don DeLillo, Underworld (Prologue: The Triumph of Death)
6/3 I am a Broken Shoe
My Crime Deserves Death
~ Ha Jin, “In Broad Daylight”
6/4 Vengeance will be upon you.
The all is bigger than you.
~ Aeschylus, The Eumenides (trans: Richmond Lattimore)
6/5 you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
~ Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
6/6 He did not know that he was being
paraded round the streets as a public
example.
~ Lu Xun, “The True Story of Ah Q” (trans: Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang)
6/7 Now we have Sony and Panasonic; we
have Proctor & Gamble, Johnson &
Johnson. We have imported movies in
which men and women hold hands freely
in the street, and they even kiss each
other without a trace of fear in their eyes.
~ Yiyun Li, “Immortality”
6/8 And then there is our Main Street
that looks like
an abandoned movie set
~ Charles Simic, “Driving Around”
6/9 Point being, rickshaws in Scranton.
~ Michael Robbins, “Alien vs. Predator”
6/10 and at the end of the hall come back to
exactly (corporeally) where they had just
been, but in another country, a tourist, a
marveling visitor, to a street that shared
the latitude-longitude of their own
address, a street they had never visited
before, whose architecture they had
always unseen
~ China Mieville, The City & the City (Chapter 6)
6/11 .00000098 miles to cornea from retinal
wall
~ Dan Graham, “Exclusion Principle”
6/12 The apparition of these faces in the crowd
~ Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”
6/13 He wondered what they’d do if the Toyota
suddenly became haunted.
~ Kelly Link, “Stone Animals”
6/14 Shit, the ship said to itself.
~ Philip K. Dick, “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”
6/15 moving its slow thighs
~ W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”
6/16 A way a lone a last a loved a long the
riverrun
~ James Joyce, Finnegans Wake
6/17 Trundling an empty barrow up the lane.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (line 999)
6/18 Stil I wunt have no other track.
~ Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker (Chapter 18)
6/19 when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into
it, head down and heels up, and I’m even
pleased that I’m falling in such a
humiliating position, and for me I find it
beautiful.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
(Book III: The Sensualists, Chapter 3: The Confession of an Ardent Heart. In Verse; trans: Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)
6/20 No one else could ever be granted
admission here, as this gate was just for
you. Now I am going to close it.
~ Franz Kafka, “Before the Law” (trans: Donna Freed)
6/21 What enemy do we now perceive
advancing against us, you whom I ride
now, as we stand pawing this stretch of
pavement? It is death. Death is the
enemy.
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves (final section)
6/22 Very quickly he stepped on the gas and
with his stump sticking out the window he
raced the galloping shower into Mobile.
~ Flannery O’Connor, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”
6/23 untrodden, unwilted, unpleasing,
unrestingly, unmentionable, unpoetical,
uncleanliness, unknown, unspeakable,
unwittingly, unrecorded, unworthy, until,
uncounted, undiscovered, unreasonably,
undone, unreasonable, unless
~ Judith Goldman, “dicktée”
6/24 Talaria: A winged sandal.
Tale: A story.
Talipot: A coconut palm native to the East
Indies. Trunk from 50 to 100 feet in height,
leaves used for umbrellas, fans, hats, etc.
Blooms once in 70 years…
~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa, “The Life of a Stupid Man” (trans: Jay Rubin)
6/25 Stagecoach. Stallion. Statue.
Sticks. Stones. Stop.
Strangle. Stream-of-Consciousness.
~ Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
6/26 Stately, solemn, sad, withdrawn, baffled,
mad, turbulent, feeble, dissatisfied,
Desperate, proud, fond, sick, accepted by
men, rejected by men,
They go! they go! I know that they go, but I
know not where they go
~ Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”
6/27 McDonald’s
Burger King
Taco Bell
Home Depot
Gap
Dunkin’ Donuts
KFC
J. Crew
Home Depot
Staples
Sunglass Hut
Wendy’s
Kmart
Wal*Mart
~ Robert Fitterman, “Metropolis 16”
6/28 Sweet tarts!
Kevin Turner
The funky chicken!
All sour gum flavors!
Big eye pictures of sad dogs!
Peace!
The song if you’re going to San Francisco
People with giant hind ends
Ballerina outfits!
The gorgeous smell of gasoline
~ Lynda Barry, It’s So Magic (“Super Right On!”)
6/29 I am what is around me.
~ Wallace Stevens, “Theory”
6/30 I saw the teeming sea; I saw daybreak
and nightfall; I saw the multitudes of
America; I saw a silvery cobweb in the
center of a black pyramid; I saw a
splintered labyrinth (it was London); I saw,
close up, unending eyes watching
themselves in me as in a mirror; I saw all
the mirrors on earth and none of them
reflected me; I saw in a backyard of Soler
Street the same tiles that thirty years
before I’d seen in the entrance of a house
in Fray Bentos; I saw bunches of grapes,
snow, tobacco, lodes of metal, steam; I
saw convex equatorial deserts and each
one of their grains of sand; I saw a woman
in Inverness whom I shall never forget; I
saw her tangled hair, her tall figure, I saw
the cancer in her breast; I saw a ring of
baked mud in a sidewalk, where before
there had been a tree; I saw a summer
house in Adrogué and a copy of the first
English translation of Pliny — Philemon
Holland’s — and all at the same time saw
each letter on each page (as a boy, I used
to marvel that the letters in a closed book
did not get scrambled and lost overnight);
I saw a sunset in Querétaro that seemed
to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal; I
saw my empty bedroom; I saw in a closet
in Alkmaar a terrestrial globe between two
mirrors that multiplied it endlessly; I saw
horses with flowing manes on a shore of
the Caspian Sea at dawn; I saw the
delicate bone structure of a hand; I saw
the survivors of a battle sending out
picture postcards; I saw in a showcase in
Mirzapur a pack of Spanish playing cards;
I saw the slanting shadows of ferns on a
greenhouse floor; I saw tigers, pistons,
bison, tides, and armies; I saw all the ants
on the planet; I saw a Persian astrolabe; I
saw in the drawer of a writing table (and
the handwriting made me tremble)
unbelievable, obscene, detailed letters,
which Beatriz had written to Carlos
Argentino; I saw a monument I
worshipped in the Chacarita cemetery; I
saw the rotted dust and bones that had
once deliciously been Beatriz Viterbo; I
saw the circulation of my own dark blood;
I saw the coupling of love and the
modification of death; I saw the Aleph
from every point and angle, and in the
Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the
Aleph and in the Aleph the earth; I saw my
own face and my own bowels; I saw your
face; and I felt dizzy and wept, for my eyes
had seen that secret and conjectured
object whose name is common to all men
but which no man has looked upon — the
unimaginable universe.
~ Jorge Luis Borges, “The Aleph”
(trans: Norman Thomas Di Giovanni in collaboration with the author)
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7/11 The United States has the largest freight
transportation system in the world, an
extensive physical network of
infrastructure and entities that provide
transportation services:
– 4 million miles of public roads,
– 140,000 miles of railroad tracks
operated by freight carriers,
– 25,000 miles of navigable waterways,
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facilities, and
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7/12 Today, U.S. households can buy fresh
fruits and vegetables in mid-winter, expect
fast and reliable next-day deliveries of
Internet purchases, and use electronic
appliances manufactured thousands of
miles away, often in other countries.
~ Freight Transportation: Global Highlights 2010
(RITA, Bureau of Transportation Statistics)
7/13 The United States is the world’s largest
importer of goods. Crude oil, petroleum
products, passenger motor vehicles,
electrical machinery, and electronics are
among the top imports by value.
~ Freight Transportation: Global Highlights 2010
(RITA, Bureau of Transportation Statistics)
7/14 The top exports from China to the United
States include finished goods such as
computer equipment, electronics, toys,
apparel, furniture, and other household
goods.
~ Freight Transportation: Global Highlights 2010
(RITA, Bureau of Transportation Statistics)
7/15 Busiest seaports in the world by cargo
tonnage:
Shanghai, China
Singapore, Singapore
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Guangzhou, China
Ningbo, China
Tianjin, China
Qingdao, China
Qinhuangdao, China
Hong Kong, China
Busan, South Korea
~ AAPA World Port Rankings 2010
7/16 NOTE: The cargo rankings based on
tonnage should be interpreted with
caution since these measures are not
directly comparable and cannot be
converted to a single, standardized unit.
~ AAPA World Port Rankings 2010
7/17 Busiest seaports in the world by container
traffic:
Shanghai, China
Singapore, Singapore
Hong Kong, China
Shenzhen, China
Busan, South Korea
Ningbo, China
Guangzhou, China
Qingdao, China
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Rotterdam, Netherlands
~ AAPA World Port Rankings 2010
7/18 Busiest airports in the world by cargo
traffic:
HKG – Hong Kong, China
MEM – Memphis, United States
PVG – Shanghai, China
ICN – Incheon, South Korea
ANC – Anchorage, United States
CDG – Paris, France
FRA – Frankfurt, Germany
DXB – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
NRT – Narita, Japan
SDF – Louisville, United States
~ ACI Airport Rankings 2010
7/19 The U.S. Department of Transportation
defines hazardous materials as belonging
to one of nine hazard classes:
Class 1 – Explosives
Class 2 – Gases
Class 3 – Flammable Liquids
Class 4 – Flammable Solids
Class 5 – Oxidizers & Organic Peroxides
Class 6 – Toxic Materials and Infectious
Substances
Class 7 – Radioactive Materials
Class 8 – Corrosive Materials
Class 9 – Misc. Dangerous Goods
~ RITA, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
7/20 Common Items that May Be Hazardous:
Aircraft Parts
Bull Semen
Chain Saws
Dental Equipment
Frozen Food
Perfume
Vaccines
Venom
Weather Equipment
~ ups.com
7/21 This is only a sampling of trigger terms
which should prompt further questions
about a shipment. There are many more,
and it is hoped that seeing these will lead
you to think about other general terms that
may warrant further investigation.
~ ups.com
7/22 An intermodal container is a standardized
reusable steel box used for the safe,
efficient, and secure storage and
movement of materials and products
within a global containerized intermodal
freight transport system. “Intermodal”
indicates that the container can be moved
from one mode of transport to another
(from ship, to rail, to truck) without
unloading and reloading the contents of
the container.
~ wikipedia.org, “Intermodal container”
7/23 Top commodities by weight, U.S.
container imports:
– Furniture and parts
– Bananas and plantains, fresh or dried
– Parts & accessories for motor vehicles
– Worked monument, stone, art, granule
– Oil, not crude, from petroleum and bitum
mineral
– Seats (except barber, dental, etc.) and
parts
– Beer made from malt
– New pneumatic tires or rubber
– Glazed ceramics flags and paving and
hearth tiles
– Coal, briquettes, and ovoids from coal
~ RITA, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (2010)
7/24 Top global supply chains:
Apple
Amazon
McDonald’s
Dell
P&G
The Coca-Cola Company
Intel
Cisco Systems
Wal-Mart Stores
Unilever
~ The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2012
7/25 Some difficult supply chain locations:
Easter Island
Alice Springs, Australia
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
Kabul, Afghanistan
~ supplychaindigital.com
7/26 The Office of Foreign Assets Control
(“OFAC”) is issuing this Advisory to alert
the maritime industry that IRISL (“The
Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines”)
has recently been operating vessels
despite their flags having been revoked.
~ treasury.gov
7/27 Sorry, your search “maritime shipping
flag” did not return results.
Please try one of the following:
– Try a new search
– Check our Product Index
– Call Customer service or contact us
online
– Learn how to find a part number from the
old AmazonSupply.com paper catalog
~ amazonsupply.com (beta)
7/28 Amazon’s new goal is to get stuff to you
immediately—as soon as a few hours
after you hit Buy. Order something in the
morning and get it later in the day, without
doing anything else. Why would you ever
shop anywhere else?
~ Farhad Manjoo, “I Want It Today,” slate.com
7/29 (Disclosure: Slate participates in Amazon
Associates, an “affiliate” advertising plan
that rewards websites for sending
customers to the online store. This means
that if you click on an Amazon link from
Slate – including a link in this story – and
you end up buying something, Amazon
will send Slate a percentage of your final
purchase price.)
~ Farhad Manjoo, “I Want It Today,” slate.com
7/30 You entered: C0LL3CT3DF1CT10N5
Delivery status information is not
available for your item via this web site.
A return receipt after mailing may be
available through your local Post Office.
~ usps.com
7/31 Sorry we missed you!
Your item has been returned to its point of
origin.
August
8/1 Traffic accidents are the leading cause of
death for people age 45 and younger in
China.
~ “Study: China traffic deaths higher than police say,” chinadaily.com.cn
8/2 China has about one-third as many
vehicles as the United States but twice as
many confirmed traffic deaths per year.
~ Keith Bradsher, “Road Safety Problems Pose Dire Threat in China,” nytimes.com
(figures from end of 2010)
8/3 Chinese and Western traffic safety experts
say that while the U.S. figures are
extremely reliable and take into account
virtually every death, only a small fraction
of all traffic deaths in China show up in
official figures.
~ Keith Bradsher, “Road Safety Problems Pose Dire Threat in China,” nytimes.com
8/4 The inaccuracies may be due, in part, to
deliberate under-reporting by traffic
officers, who are rewarded with a higher
performance ranking if fewer accidents
occur within their jurisdictions.
~ Ted Alcorn, “Uncertainty clouds China’s road-traffic fatality data,” thelancet.com
8/5 More than two-thirds of traffic fatality
victims in China are vulnerable road
users — pedestrians, bicyclists, and
motorcyclists.
~ Ted Alcorn, “Uncertainty clouds China’s road-traffic fatality data,” thelancet.com
8/6 Li Qiming, son of the director of the local
public security bureau, hit two young
women with his Volkswagen on the Hebei
University campus. Chen Xiaofeng, 20,
died as a result. Li fled the scene and
dropped off his girlfriend at her dorm.
When finally stopped by security guards,
he shouted, “Charge me if you dare!
My father is Li Gang!”
8/7 “My father is Li Gang!” became an ironic
catchphrase among Chinese netizens
despite government attempts to suppress
the story.
8/8 Chinese granny ties sex doll to tree to
stop motorists from speeding
~ Tycho de Feyter, carnewschina.com
8/9 BUILD ROADS, BRIDGES, AND POWER
PLANTS TO GENERATE FUNDS FOR
MORE ROADS, BRIDGES, AND POWER
PLANTS
~ Dongguan Museum of History, Economy Exhibit
(in Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang)
8/10 China produces 50 percent of the world’s
cement—the next largest producer, India,
is responsible for just 6 percent—to build
seemingly endless tracts of high rises,
railroads, parking lots, highways, airports,
and shopping malls.
~ Christina Larson, “China’s Energy Dragon Looks Tamer to One Forecaster,” scientificamerican.com
8/11 In factories, restaurants, construction
sites, elevators, delivery services,
housecleaning, child-raising, garbage-
collecting, barbershops, and brothels,
almost every worker is a rural migrant.
Together they represent the largest
migration in human history, three times
the number of people who emigrated to
America from Europe over a century.
~ Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls (“Going Out”)
8/12 Money sent home by migrants is already
the biggest source of wealth accumulation
in rural China. Yet earning money isn’t the
only reason people migrate. In surveys,
migrants rank “seeing the world,”
“developing myself,” and “learning new
skills” as important as increasing
incomes.
~ Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls (“Going Out”)
8/13 There was nothing to do at home, so I
went out.
~ Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls (“Going Out”)
8/14 Women make up more than one-third of
China’s migrants. They tend to be
younger than their male counterparts and
more likely to be single; they travel farther
from home and they stay out longer. They
are more motivated to improve
themselves and more likely to value
migration for its life-changing possibilities.
~ Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls (“To Die Poor Is a Sin”)
8/15 Surveys have shown that migration
makes a rural woman more likely to meet
her future husband on her own, marry
later, want fewer children, give birth in a
hospital, seek equality in marriage, and
view divorce as an acceptable option.
~ Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls (“Eight-Minute Date”)
8/16 The profound gender imbalance caused
by China’s one-child policy has helped
revive the practice of bride trafficking.
8/17 China’s culture of silence also plays a
role. “In our hometown, when people buy
wives, no one says anything. No one
talks.”
~ Charles Custer, “China’s Missing Children,” foreignpolicy.com
8/18 In China, it is common for trafficked
women to be disowned by their families
upon their safe return home. Relatives
view the daughter’s trafficking as a loss of
face to the family and treat the incident of
sex trafficking as the fault of the victim.
~ Matthew B. Conaway, “The Trafficking of Women and Girls for Prostitution and Brides in China”
8/19 In China, kids are abducted not for
ransom but for sale. Often, they come from
poor and rural families – the families least
likely to be capable of tracking their kids
down or fighting back. Some children are
then sold to new “adoptive” families
looking for children. Others are sold into
slave labor, prostitution, or a life on the
streets.
~ Charles Custer, “China’s Missing Children,” foreignpolicy.com
8/20 39-year-old mother Tang Hui was
sentenced to 18 months re-education
through labour for “seriously disturbing
the social order and exerting a negative
impact on society” after she repeatedly
petitioned officials in Yongzhou, Hunan
because she believed the sentences
given to the men who kidnapped, raped,
and forced her 11-year-old daughter into
prostitution should have been more
severe.
~ Tania Branigan, “Outcry in China over mother sent to labour camp after daughter’s rape,” guardian.co.uk
8/21 The Chinese government reports that
fewer than 10,000 children are kidnapped
each year, but the U.S. State Department
says it’s closer to 20,000. Some
independent estimates put the number as
high as 70,000 (compared with 100 to
200 children kidnapped per year in the
United States).
~ Charles Custer, “China’s Missing Children,” foreignpolicy.com
8/22 Trafficking in persons is the most
profitable illicit activity in China, which
generates more than seven billion dollars
annually, surpassing the revenues of drug
and arms trafficking.
~ Matthew B. Conaway, “The Trafficking of Women and Girls for Prostitution and Brides in China”
8/23 The Government of the People’s Republic
of China does not fully comply with the
minimum standards for the elimination of
trafficking.
~ “Trafficking in Persons Report 2011,” state.gov
8/24 The Government of the People’s Republic
of China is however fully committed to
eliminating sensitive, subversive Internet
traffic. It operates the most comprehensive
system of censorship in the world.
8/25 China’s censorship system is complex
and multilayered. The outer layer is
generally known as the “great firewall” of
China, through which hundreds of
thousands of websites are blocked from
view on the Chinese Internet. Domestic
companies are the stewards and
handmaidens, the tools and enforcers, of
China’s inner layer of Internet censorship.
Why simply block content when you can
delete it from the Internet for good? Why
hire government employees to carry out
censorship and surveillance when
companies can be compelled to do it?
~ Rebecca MacKinnon, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
8/26 Other countries that also censor Internet
content—Singapore, for instance, or the
United Arab Emirates—provide
explanations whenever they do so. In
China, the connection just times out. Is it
your computer’s problem? The firewall?
Or maybe your local Internet provider,
which has decided to do some filtering on
its own? You don’t know.
“The unpredictability of the firewall
actually makes it more effective,” another
Chinese software engineer told me. “It
becomes much harder to know what the
system is looking for, and you always
have to be on guard.”
~ James Fallows, “The Connection Has Been Reset,” theatlantic.com
8/27 The presence of censorship, even if easy
to evade, promotes self-censorship.
~ James Fallows, “The Connection Has Been Reset,” theatlantic.com
8/28 Terms that have been blocked in China:
human rights
dictatorship
oppression
genocide
salt
blind man
ministry of truth
tofu construction
Nobel Peace Prize
fuck your mother
forced abortion
milk powder
baby soup
clitoris
cunt
4
6
8
9
today
mourn
never forget
speak the truth
teletubbies + instant noodles
great firewall
brainwash
freedom
evil
8/29 The complete and current list of forbidden
words is itself the ultimate forbidden thing.
8/30 “Citizens of the People’s Republic of
China enjoy freedom of speech, of the
press, of assembly, of association, of
procession and of demonstration.”
~ Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, Article 35
8/31 One World, One Dream
~ Official slogan of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
September
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What I like
What I’m like
9/3 Like this and like that and like this
Like me
Like with like
9/4 Add a Job
Add a School
Add Political Views
Add Religious Views
Add People You Admire
9/5 Edit Relationship?
9/6 To poke someone, go to their timeline and
choose Poke from the gear menu.
9/7 Don’t unfriend me, bro
9/8 You have a new follower
9/9 Follow follower?
9/10 Expand
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9/12 I’m Feeling Lucky
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9/15 Please note: Street View Images are not
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9/16 Individuals and license plates are blurred
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9/18 why does my husband
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9/20 😀
9/21 LOL LMAO LMFAO
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OMG WTF IMO
OMFG STFU IMHO
NP LYLAS BRB
9/22 troll at bridge
9/23 disable comments
9/24 search terms that led here:
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9/25 search terms that also led here:
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9/26 Welcome unique visitor!
Where did you come from?
Where are you going?
9/27 The Internet may seem to be everywhere
– and in many ways it is – but it is also
very clearly in some places more than
others. The single whole is an illusion.
The Internet has crossroads and
superhighways, large monuments and
quiet chapels. Our everyday experience
of the Internet obscures that geography,
flattening it and speeding it up beyond
any recognition.
~ Andrew Blum, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (“Prologue”)
9/28 In basest terms, the Internet is made of
pulses of light. Those pulses might seem
miraculous, but they’re not magic. They
are produced by powerful lasers
contained in steel boxes housed
(predominantly) in unmarked buildings.
The lasers exist. The boxes exist. The
buildings exist. The Internet exists – is has
a physical reality, an essential
infrastructure, a “hard bottom,” as Henry
David Thoreau said of Walden Pond.
~ Andrew Blum, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (“Prologue”)
9/29 An unfathomably long and skinny thing, a
singular path across the bottom of the
sea. Undersea cables are the ultimate
totems of our physical connections. If the
Internet is a global phenomenon, it’s
because there are tubes underneath the
ocean.
~ Andrew Blum, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (“The Longest Tubes”)
9/30 The Internet is many things, in many
places. But one thing it most certainly is,
nearly everywhere, is, in fact, a series of
tubes.
~ Andrew Blum, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (“Prologue”)
October
10/1 I am a series of tubes.
10/2 The adult circulatory system is estimated
to be 100,000 miles long. Enough to circle
the earth 4 times.
10/3 Some capillaries are so narrow that red
blood cells must pass through single file.
10/4 The average human heart beats about
3 billion times per life.
10/5 I’m afraid to feel my heart beat.
I know: what can beat, can stop.
10/6 Around 10,000 liters of air pass through a
person on a given day. The actual amount
depends on variables such as age, size,
sex, health, and activity.
10/7 Air follows branching paths through the
lungs until it reaches the gas-blood
barrier, a superthin interstitial space
between the air sacs and capillaries.
10/8 I miss breathing in the first chill of autumn.
The lung shock. Before the air submits to
my heat.
10/9 End to end, food usually takes between
24 and 72 hours to pass through the
digestive system.
10/10 My GI tract betrays me. The locus of my
psychosomatic drama.
10/11 Coprastasophobia: the fear of
constipation.
10/12 The endocrine system uses chemical
messengers to regulate body functions
like growth and metabolism and mood.
Feedback loops are vital for maintaining
control.
10/13 Marriage lowers testosterone.
10/14 Laughter lowers stress hormones and
strengthens the immune system.
10/15 I feel pains within most days now. They
gnaw or flutter or hammer or lock. They
come as needles or waves or plain dull
aches.
10/16 The very thought of all this commotion
inside makes me sick. Some animal
digging its way out.
10/17 Find reset button. Press.
10/18 On a second quest.
10/19 Neurons are individual and non-
contiguous. They are separated by gaps
yet make contact.
10/20 Some functions of neural networks:
Feature detection
Pattern generation
Universal computation
Timing
10/21 Unlike the wide net of hormonal signaling,
the nervous system is more specific.
Point-to-point rather than broadcasts.
It’s also much faster.
10/22 Relative speeds of nerve impulses:
Muscle position > Touch > Thought > Pain
10/23 The brain structures suffering. But the
pudding itself feels no pain.
10/24 The shape of you in my head.
10/25 Pinpricks across my scalp.
A buzzing in my skull.
10/26 Along hills and hollers of cortex.
10/27 UAG UAA UGA
10/28 What was previously thought to be ‘junk’
DNA actually contains millions of gene
switches vital for controlling cell and
organ behavior. Many complex
phenomena, like disease, can arise when
just a few hundred switches stall or flip the
other way.
10/29 DNA is so long that it must coil around
itself tightly, like a hairball. If unwound, all
the DNA in a body would reach to the sun
and back many times.
10/30 Through tubes within tubes.
10/31 All this movement inside, in the dark,
upon which everything depends.
November
11/1 rigorously subjective
11/2 entangled in the snares of the world
11/3 dear and dirty
11/4 must wash my hands after touching food,
coins, doorknobs, anything outside,
anything that smells
11/5 the peculiar and touching smell of
other people’s houses
11/6 the sound of voices crashing on the shore
11/7 escape from noise
11/8 the wind against my body
11/9 the bite of coke from a can
11/10 red wall in light, red wall in shadow,
different reds
11/11 cold borders
11/12 faint music from a back room
11/13 crumbs and stains
11/14 costs per 10000 impressions
11/15 the feeling of being watched
11/16 taking off your shoes after a long day
11/17 rearranging the furniture
11/18 television voices through the wall
11/19 turning pages
11/20 bumps and ridges and furrows and clefts
11/21 all these fleshy surfaces
11/22 faces, face
11/23 when we crash I say you hit me
not your body hit my body
not your car hit my car
11/24 my phenomenal field
expanding and contracting
11/25 like breathing
11/26 unknown knowns
11/27 within sight
within earshot
within sniffing range
within reach
on tongue
11/28 no quale, only qualia
11/29 I am the intersection
11/30 a strange loop
December
12/1 the dream of eventually, the win, control,
place, my captive heart, free shipping,
accidents, the like, a series, the subjective
12/2 entangled in the adult, what I’m like,
China, conditions of use, the manyness of
things, enough, unknown reasons, the far,
you, delay
12/3 No passenger tricks a red light.
Everything broken deserves a “to” and
“from”. Only a small fraction like me are so
narrow, dear.
12/4 Anything touching my average life you
admire. Deliberate inaccuracies I print will
be upon you. Dreams impact erratically
and fly on by any time.
12/5 you must git on
I can’t the wind
I’ll stop in
12/6 Collected Fictions of Li Gang
Hopscotch in a Lava Field
Cosmicomics with 10,000 Variables
Against Interpretation of a Zerg Rush
Ulysses Crashing on the Shore
12/7 Now we have Sony Superthin
Interstitial Space and Panasonic
Most Loved Bro Noise; we have
Fact Escape and Pothole of the Day,
Suppress Chinese Netizens Blush
and Gas-Blood Jumperoo. We have
an imported Orgasm Gamble
Tungsten Carbide Johnson & Johnson
Comfort Fit Trace of Fear Wedding Ring.
12/8 My body is an abandoned movie set.
12/9 A coke can on the sidewalk. A carpool in
Scranton. A trail of blood through the
digestive system.
12/10 Your reply struck me head-on. That
unseen end. China and Kentucky,
different reds, shadowing our every move.
12/11 Trending:
click
your every curve
clinging
Lexington
seems
retinal
inland entities
construction sites
#RAW
constipation
borders
12/12 In surveys, U.S. households rank
“maintaining control,” “I’m Feeling Lucky,”
“can’t being myself,” “Elysian Fields,” and
“go downtown and eat it like a vulture”
as important as increasing incomes.
12/13 Marriage crumbs and testosterone stains
and a haunted Toyota.
12/14 girls’ night out: laughter, apes, hormones,
shit, the 10000 things, inspiration for later,
life-changing possibilities
12/15 The feeling of being. Stopping.
12/16 digging a lone a long a last a way out
12/17 safe rearranging smithereens
12/18 Last night I dreamt of a detour through a
basement in China.
12/19 straight Jesus
infectious Jesus
teacher and editor Jesus
U.S. Department of Jesus
soft dreaming unencumbered Jesus
12/20 seriously disturbing social networks and
exerting a negative impact on pattern
detection
12/21 I have ridden with the enemy and I have
kidnapped a stretch of shore and I have
crashed into this girl and we have
jackknifed on the floor.
12/22 hi-ho troll face yeah
12/23 unreasonably pneumatic unmentionable
weight unspeakable body unpoetical
suffering
12/24 Native censorship, lingering personhood,
the Coca-Cola sensation. Yet I have
subversive gods. And my head blooms.
12/25 fum!
12/26 Orphans of eminence, vessels of
unpredictability. They go, rolling and
reincarnated. They go, so fond and proud.
They go along hills and hollers to the
unknown refuge of crossroads.
12/27 Taco Ruins
Burger Pastor
Wendy’s Tongue
The Sunglass Hut Experience
UAA KFC UAG
The Final Gap
Why*Mart
12/28 Fuck your tofu construction.
We never forget.
We are going to get you.
12/29 Totems of our physical connections.
I am what is around me.
I am the intersection.
12/30 I saw the day; I saw sunset and nightfall
and daybreak; I saw silvery deserts and a
dark sea; I saw the reflected earth; I saw
the labyrinth up close; I saw my
unimaginable bowels; I saw my obscene
blood; I saw the coupling of death and the
modification of love; I saw the jump; I saw
my delicate hand; I saw my scrambled
handwriting; I saw the unbelievable object
multiplied endlessly; I saw this web site; I
saw the Internet; I saw America and I saw
China; I saw the conjectured freedom of
speech; I saw her go; I saw unending
tubes; I saw tubes within tubes; I saw the
strange loop; I saw the common universe;
I saw my secret name; I saw life exactly;
and I saw the exit.
12/31 Can we get back to the point of origin,
to the dream upon which everything
depends? Sorry. All this movement –
everything missed died returned inside
you world you – has been ok. I will yield.
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