Archive for March, 2009
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Saddled
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] SADDLED Love is a horse, all sweaty suede and lean muscle, heart bigger than its head. Love is a dark horse, the unexpected silhouette, the anti- man’s empty field—no shadow unattached as darkness clings to light like a dead horse. Look: I can make a dove with both [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in american fractal,audio,poems by Tim
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Garden Party
I’ve been meaning to write a follow-up to Monday’s post about reader response, but it’s new-issue week for me — typesetting Rattle #31 before we send it on to our brilliant team of proofreaders — and time has been scarce. This is an important topic, and I really don’t want to half-ass it, but half [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in rattle rubbish by Tim
Monday, March 9th, 2009
A Bunch of Hypercrits
The graph on the right is “unique visitors” to Rattle.com. I had to crop out the y-axis, but you get the drift. On Saturday morning we went from our usual 1,000 or so visitors a day (is that good or bad for a website? I have no idea) to 20,000, thanks to the snowball effect [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in on poetry,rattle rubbish by Tim
Friday, March 6th, 2009
After Hopper
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] AFTER HOPPER Nighthawks, 1942 She says that everything is after Hopper. That posh hotel—you looked about to slap her, but never did. Sometimes she’d wait at night in her blue robe, face folded like the note you didn’t leave crumpled in a coat pocket. [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in poems by Tim
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Fractional Brownian Motion in Multifractal Trading Time
Since the book came out, it’s been a real treat trying to explain to friends and family what a fractal is. My grandma says she understood it one afternoon a few weeks ago, but can’t remember how it made sense at the time. Most people just assume it has something to do with fractions and [...]
