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Entries from March 2008

Joseph Arthur bonanza

March 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments

This live performance is purported to be the first live play of “Electrical Storm” before an audience. The venue is Le Bataclan in Paris, and took place on November 2nd of 2005. Joseph is playing solo. Sadly, the clip terminates at about the 2½ minute mark.

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Tags: music

Bev to Ande: 26 March 1943

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Just received the card notifying me of your safe arrival, and also giving the address. Even though it was filled out in the U.S., was so glad to receive it, and it does have your handwriting, which seems so good to see again.

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Tags: Bev & Ande · food

Weeds, Part 2: Mom was right again.

March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

How to Pull Weeds

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Tags: family · house

Bev to Ande: 25 March 1943 (part 2)

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

I need you, Darling, every moment.

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Tags: Bev & Ande

Bev to Ande: 25 March 1943

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m so anxious to have you home, Honey. Dreamed about you last night. Can’t tell you about it as it was rather mixed up – but you were there & that’s what counts.

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Tags: Bev & Ande · food

Crestwood Christo

March 25th, 2008 · 7 Comments

That night, I experienced an extremely vivid nightmare wherein rows and rows of fruit trees marched in formation toward me, hurling rotten tangerines and dirt clods at my head while “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” roared in the background.

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Tags: family · house

Green consumer irony

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

It occurred to me this morning, as I watched some swirl down the drain, how unfortunate it is that toilet paper made from recyclable materials is itself not recyclable.

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Tags: ideas

Be your own Warhol

March 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

One of the interactive elements of the Museum’s website is an area where you can learn, step by step, how Warhol designed his trademark silkscreen portraits. You are then given the opportunity to make one yourself, using some pre-selected photographs as your raw material.

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Tags: film

Bev to Ande: 23 March 1943

March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

The only objection I have to this V-mail is that there really isn’t much space for a letter, & am afraid I won’t receive long letters from you; but then, if you write often enough, that will make up for it.

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Tags: Bev & Ande

Screenings: In the Valley of Elah, Dear Frankie, Dan in Real Life, In Treatment, John Adams

March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

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Steve Carell utters one of the most ridiculous lines in a movie ever in Dan in Real Life: “This corn is like an angel.” Out of context, it’s even more ridiculous, but I laughed out loud at the moment in the film when he lets it rip.

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Tags: film · Screenings