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Fish Taco

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

“Fish Taco” (2004) by Caramelize

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The aftermath of lunch

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Thirty minutes before this picture was taken, it was all “rabbit food,” as my oldest sister used to call it.

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Tags: food

Seeds

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Friday, June 13, 2008 2,000-year-old seed is oldest to germinate By Wendy Hansen Los Angeles Times Scientists using radiocarbon dating have confirmed that a Judean date palm seed found in the ruins of Masada and planted three years ago is 2,000 years old – the oldest seed ever to germinate. The seed has grown into […]

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Tags: food · history · ideas

Screenings: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

July 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Bette Davis, trapped behind a chalky white face of pancake makeup, gets about as much emotional mileage from her facial expressions as would a drunken mime.

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Tags: film · food · history · music · Screenings · TV

Cambridge Journal: 22 September 2007 (part one)

July 6th, 2008 · No Comments

The subway system no longer takes tokens. They have taken the “branding” approach, as well, as the tickets that you buy from a machine (automation again, as at the airport) are called “Charlie,” as in “Charlie on the MTA!!” It took me awhile to figure out how to buy one. The lines to buy with cash were very, very long, and no one was purchasing at the credit card line, so I did that. It wasn’t easy, at first, all touch screen technology and menus, but I would be a pro a second time.

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Tags: books · food · house · self

The Gourmand

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments

She sat, firm as a kettle drum,
As the Asian college girls lay on blankets at her feet
Studying organic chemistry.

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Tags: fiction · music

Opera, munchies and a paper hat

June 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This photograph was taken at the Boston Hatch Shell, during an outdoor shoot for the film Yes, Giorgio, in June of 1981.

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Tags: music · Uncategorized

Father’s Day

June 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I remember when you were building that fence, we used to watch the woman who lived on the corner walk her dog up the alley and let it take a dump right behind my house. She’d just stand there watching it, smoking a cigarette. You eventually got talking with her, and she coincidentally stopped using my backyard as her dog’s potty. Well, she died last year, after battling on and off again with cancer. We had become friendly. She used to ask about you all the time.

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Tags: family · food · house · music

Bev to Ande: 14 June 1943

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Say, one really can get a lot on these V mails when typing. I’m almost running out of material.

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Bev to Ande: 10 June 1943

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

When I think of those months we were together, it seems that every day was a day of romance and adventure too. Marriage is an adventure, and what an exciting, beautiful one.

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