The wurst intentions

Dieter Roth makes sausage out of books and periodicals he doesn't like. He gave his first "literaturwurst" to Daniel Spoerri.

(From Dzyd Shelley)

Also: Birds with backpacks!

(From Dzyd Jane)

1,000,000

AJRMS on a Dizzies fave: Daniel Spoerri's An Anecdoted Topography of Chance

* * *

The latest Keeler News (which includes a great Keeler parody by Ken Keeler—no relation to HSK!) tipped me off to Graham Self's short film adaptation of "Strange Romance," the tale-within-a-tale in Y. Cheung, Business Detective.

Watch it here:



Curiously, Self made the movie without having had the chance to read "Strange Romance"; he knew of it only via the aforementioned (Keeler fan) Ken Keeler's commentary on a episode of Futurama.

The Connections: Numbered Objects Edition

—Joel Holland, illustration for NYT review of Stephen Baker's The Numerati






—Daniel Spoerri, An Anecdoted Topography of Chance





—Regina Doublemint, The New-York Ghost