The Composer, the Assasin and the Prophet – May 1 2013
Live at Occupy Wall Street– soundcloud. by Christopher Delaurenti You know why a May day protest was successful (The Stranger – thx to Christopher D). See Christopher harrassing the turtles – (previous...
View ArticleAlice, Audrey and Jane Jacob
Alice Liddell ( 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), known for most of her adult life by her married name, Alice Hargreaves, inspired the children’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis...
View ArticleName These Children – May 5, 2013
Can machine think? Google celebrates his last 100th birthday..(a must see if you missed) Pardon a gay computer icon.. May 5 – Children’s Day in Japan. She loves pumpkins and polka dots He was born in...
View ArticleTaylor Mead – We’ll Miss You
(Senior Trip) Taylor Mead dies at 88. (Bowery Boogie) Andy Newman – NYtimes city room… Taylor Mead, the Warhol “superstar,” Beat poet, stray-cat feeder and sweet face and voice of an era, died on...
View ArticleFlorence Nightingale – Love of Stats
Florence Nightingale 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910 was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Florence Nightingale click to see large (via Crimean...
View ArticleBruce Chatwin and Werner Herzog – the Anatomy of Restlessness
Bruce Chatwin Edinburgh flat Bruce was born on May 13, 1940 Susan Sontag wrote of him: “There are few people in this world who have the kind of looks which enchant and enthrall … It isn’t just beauty,...
View ArticleR.I. P. Ray Manzarek – Music for the Moment
Ray Manzerek – Doors Keyboardist dead at 74 Manzarek grew up in Chicago, then moved to Los Angeles in 1962 to study film at UCLA. It was there he first met Doors singer Jim Morrison, though they didn’t...
View ArticleSilent Topography – Jurgen Trautwein 2013
Congratulations Jurgen Trautwein. Wall St Int’l Recalled from memory, Silent Topography are painted aerial views of land and water formations observed on transcontinental flights between Europe and the...
View ArticleRed Clay Court – The Better Player
Click to see large.. resembling a heroic abstract action painting (via) Ferrer hot shot Ferrer lost that match to Nadal. DFW was not the only one who admires Federer But now the South African novelist...
View ArticleLydia Davis – Head Is All Heart Has
Lydia Davis wins Man Booker Int’l Prize “Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go,...
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