29.Apr.2013 10DR2B: Cool Ranch Doritos — Matt Diamond
Gregory hated going to the Techno-Psych. He felt like a computer on a lab bench, wires exposed in harsh fluorescence. But he knew he needed to go. His mind was “a ship torn apart by two odd captains,” or at least that’s what the Detector said. It was prone to overly florid language, an unfortunate design decision. Gregory had [...]
24.Apr.2013 Goods & Services: Convolute on Frozen Entrees
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09.Mar.2013 10DR2a: Untitled 1 by Matt Diamond
“It’s pronounced bo-bob, like ‘bow’ in ‘bow and arrow’ and then ‘bob.’ Bobob. Do you follow?” Bobob Erickson tapped a wrinkled finger against the pleat of his starched pants. The ash-gray fabric was distractingly dull, which seemed to J an inexplicable paradox. The room smelled faintly of sausage. “I’m Bobob. Get it? Bobob. Me Bobob.” [...]
02.Mar.2013 File under Great Roofs of America
Stumbled on this Great Roof last weekend. Aspen Hill Public Library, Aspen Hill, Maryland (John Henry Sullivan, Jr., architect), 1967. Note two-tiered roof with broad lower tier and steep upper tier. Sullivan (not to be confused with the OTHER John Sullivan, Jr. architect of same era) seems to have designed a number of interesting modern [...]
17.Feb.2013 10DR1: Two Poems by Marc Carver
the past I got into the Jacuzzi with two women they looked like they had been around the block a few times. They chatted away and i pretended not to listen. They touched me with their toes and flirted with me a bit. They started to talk about their plumbing problems then the one who [...]
11.Aug.2012 New barkeries, old barkers
After a long discussion with one longtime DR contributor and collaborator slash blood relation, Takery started to get excited about Dairy River again. Thus extending the normal cycle things. There will be some changes though. We determined that the system of volumes is obsolete, archaic beyond even its own merits of archaicness. We have a [...]
12.Feb.2012 Addendum
Interesting article in the Times, forwarded to me by a regular DR contributor. Note of course the reference to Pizza Hut. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/magazine/dickens-world.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=print Also, Takery sent me this earlier today.
20.Nov.2011 Real people doing real things
We’re looking forward to our next volume, which we anticipate publishing on or around December 15. We’ve received some great submissions, so we’re excited about enlarging the DR family. Also, file under people doing real things: (1) Lucas Blalock’s show xyz at Ramiken Crucible in NYC runs until December 23. It is truly awesome. Make [...]
02.Oct.2011 Streetlight ads
I recently sifted through some archived volumes of Street and Highway Lighting (1957-1963) as a part of the research project on cobrahead streetlights. I found a number of great ads, which I uploaded to the Handbook. There have been several erroneous reports that Dairy River is a dairy. Consider these rumors dispelled. Also, we’ve been [...]
10.Sep.2011 Dairy River Vol. 9
Takery here. We recognize that it has been quite some time since we published an issue. We’re OK with that. We went on a tacit hiatus to recharge our creative batteries. DR cannot be stopped though. Regardless of how tacit we were able to make our hiatus, DR just keeps rumbling back. All across this [...]
