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he lived in my town growing up and his daughter was in my class but i never knew anything about him until today though my parents must have mentioned he was in show business. i didnt even know she was jewish.
columbus circle circa late teens
rereading the history of language poetry
in todays lesson in lesser homes and gardens, we are taught that removing the gunk around the base of the toilet may impact the structural integrity of a 100 year old tenement building. at the very least it will ruin a paint job and very likely cave in a bathroom ceiling on the floor below. as it turns out, i am the floor below and not the degunker, the bruntee, not the brunter. and somehow assurances that caulking will commence any time now are not filling me with confidence that the problem will be resolved by the thoroughly amateur home improver in either great haste or satisfactorily.
i should add the thought of explaining this to the landlord in order to extract the funds for a handyman to fix the ceiling does not fill me with glee. i have already explained that this is one brunt that the brunter will have to bear. i dont know if she will shoulder that burden with any more aplomb than she will the task of filling the breach between our two worlds.
meanwhile i just lanced the boil that is my ceiling. only time will tell if it can be saved. suddenly the battle hymn of the republic makes perfect sense to me. somewhere a four part ken burns documentary is in pre-production.
art installation goes horribly, terribly awry
we did this project in PDX last year and tried and failed to get permission from our fire dept to burn it. as the artist said "surely it is more dangerous unburnt than burnt"
playmobil tsa check point
"King Lear Allotting His Kingdom to His Three Daughters, by Julia Margaret Cameron, dated 1872. Charles Cameron (the photographer’s husband) posed as Lear, surrounded by the Liddell sisters, including Alice Liddell (right), the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland."
world largest natural sound archive now digitized and available online
Via wfmu fb
Say again? Deepak Chopra is president of Rapiscan?
help keep bimbo safe. I saw an orphan today barreling towards i78. Fallen/winter in pa folks.
gun deaths since newtown.
williamsburg bridge (manhattan view), 1919
Vancouver's solution to homelessness.
of this i was not aware. im just glad theyre not catholic priests. now those guys have issues.
