Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

In the sixties I was spending a lot of time in Europe, and I was in Europe in ‘68, when a lot of shit was going down, as they say in the States. I remember reading the Herald Tribune every day, and it just seemed that the country was falling apart. But a year or so later I was in Europe again, and it didn’t seem like there was anything as dramatic going on, but again I had the feeling of things falling apart. And I realized that it was because all I was getting was the news. And the news wasn’t reporting that bees were pollinating flowers in Dutchess County today, and the sun rose at 6:51 just as predicted, and that the law of gravity held today as one would hope. If all you’re getting are these points of news, you’re missing the fact that the world’s not falling apart. It’s the real stuff, the stable stuff, that doesn’t get reported.

Stephen Shore.

I got a package from Amazon today: it contained Shore’s wonderful Uncommon Places, plus On the Road by Kerouac — I felt the two kind of fit. (Together with my 25mm/1.4 this is the last photo-related purchase of mine for a while, I sense. I’m broke.) If I can get over the pretentiousness of it all, I might make a post about the ways in which I feel they fit and don’t, kind of like a review. A long one.