The portrait and small chant are a restorative and charming way to begin the day after some unexpected, horror movie difficulties yesterday. Very good title also. I've now read all about Ms. Lepore and was fascinated to learn of the Save The Garment Center campaign. It's an area that played a big, unsettling role in my own life and my thoughts on the subject are neurotic and untrustworthy, i.e., too many intensely bad memories. I think what Lepore and her colleagues are doing is terrific. If NYC ever elects a mayor who is an actual member of the (highly imperfect, I know) human race, rather than the scary space aliens who have held the office for so long, she might have a fighting chance. Curtis
If what you want this holiday is less Not more Lack-of-Nanette-Lepore- Stress, Try the reduced from $398 to $239 Secretive Dress.
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Made Graceful
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… things are never that simple … This is from ‘The Bestiary of Marianne
Moore’ found in The Uses of Literature: Essays by Italo Calvino, translated
by Patr...
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Friday. Recycling day, leaf-raking day,
packing-for-New-York-in-the-smallest-bag-possible day. This will be a
dreadfully compressed trip for us, but at lea...
The Easy Life on Cruise Control
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Life is so damn easy for me. I don’t have to plan for the future because
Evangelical preachers say Armageddon is coming. Until then, conservative
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Stay away from the pool
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My mother & I were visiting a friend of hers who was living in an apartment
complex that I regarded at the time as positively palatial, what for the
commun...
In Memory of Ed Ochester, Poet & Editor, RIP
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We have asked Ed Ochester (above) to edit our Sunday poetry pages for the
next few months. Here is one of Ed's poems: March of the Penguins The
editor of N...
“In spite of all the learned have said ...”
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Philip Freneau
Philip Freneau (1752-1852) was a journalist and poet in the early years our
country was forming. And, oh, by the way, I once wrote an under...
Jason Tandon
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Born in Hartford, CT in 1975, Jason Tandon is the author of four books of
poetry, including *The Actual World*, *Quality of Life*, and *Give Over the
Hec...
Balance is important in design
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Feeding therapy FINALLY!!
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There is so much to catch up on and yet so little. I have noticed that the
last year has felt like an inward journey and so telling a story hasn’t
fe...
One year gone ...
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*Meeting Mark Mothersbaugh*
Today marks one year as editor of *Fresh Water *for me. Man-o-man, what a
ride it has been. Despite the intensity of the job, o...
I'm still here
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Just posting here to let anyone know (whoever is still dropping by from
time to time) that I still haven't disappeared, I've just been spending
time away f...
2015 Mini Gift Guide
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A mini last-minute gift guide...it's been quite some time since I've
posted. But I love the holidays so much and sharing gifts that I think
would be great ...
In a Landscape - The Playlist
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John Cage, “In a Landscape”
Bob Dylan, “My Back Pages”
Neil Young, “Ambulance Blues”
The Twilight Zone Theme
Babylon 5 Theme
Simon & Garfunkel, “Richard Co...
4 comments:
The portrait and small chant are a restorative and charming way to begin the day after some unexpected, horror movie difficulties yesterday. Very good title also. I've now read all about Ms. Lepore and was fascinated to learn of the Save The Garment Center campaign. It's an area that played a big, unsettling role in my own life and my thoughts on the subject are neurotic and untrustworthy, i.e., too many intensely bad memories. I think what Lepore and her colleagues are doing is terrific. If NYC ever elects a mayor who is an actual member of the (highly imperfect, I know) human race, rather than the scary space aliens who have held the office for so long, she might have a fighting chance. Curtis
LITTLE NANETTE LEPORE SECRET
If what you want this holiday is less
Not more
Lack-of-Nanette-Lepore-
Stress,
Try the reduced from $398 to $239
Secretive Dress.
"Inglow"! pipes the festive little mechanical cuckoo-clock consumer-status word-verifier, sent us by the super-aware wizard design bots at PiperLime...
This is clever in the most delightful way.
Thanks Curtis, for the info on Nanette L. I don't know much about her. I just like how her name purrs.
And thanks Brad, and yes, Tom, I don't want to miss out on her secretive dress!
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