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going through some books
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I found this picture of Anna Magnani, which I think I will tape onto my bathroom mirror. Full-throated, open-mouth laughs like this should be a daily goal.
the duchess
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I am nearly finished with the grad school applications! I plan to hit submit on the last of them tonight and I want you all to know I have been spending every spare moment working on these things. Not browsing the internet sales or listening to new music.
Do you know I did not get one book for Christmas? It’s ok, because I got lots of other bodacious gifts. But not one book! Here’s one that was on my list. And also, a link to the Charlie Rose interview with Debo.
One of my resolutions is to take up blogging again in the new year. Another is to drink more water. See you again tomorrow.
on nina simone
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In 1960, one year after Nina Simone’s first album, Little Girl Blue, was released, the poet Langston Hughes struggled to put the appeal of Simone’s music and presence “that dusky voice, that unblinking gaze” into words. “She is strange,” Hughes wrote in The Chicago Daily Defender. “So are the plays of Brendan Behan, Jean Genet and Bertolt Brecht. She is far out, and at the same time common. So are raw eggs in Worcestershire.”
Hughes was just getting warmed up. “She is different. So was Billie Holiday, St. Francis and John Donne. So is Mort Sahl, so is Ernie Banks.” He continued: “You either like her or you don’t. If you don’t, you won’t. If you do ” wheee-ouuueu! You do!”
via the NYT
a post for d.m. who just finished ulysses
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Marilyn reads Ulysses! And she’s almost done!
the greatest time is here
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Me!
Whee!
- A poem by Muhammad Ali
Shortest poem ever?
sita devi time is here
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Love these pictures of Sita. Even if I haven’t the foggiest idea what she’s doing in #3. Maybe she is so delicate she cannot even lift a quill above her head without using both hands. No matter. Lovely Sita, da da da.
da da da da da daaaaaaaa da. The headgear in #2 is very Louis Vuitton fall ’09 bunny ears-style, no?
god looks after alcoholics, little children, and the United States of America
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Recommended:
This interview with Gore Vidal in The Atlantic.
This tribute to fall in McSweeney’s.
This classic Wes Anderson takedown in n+1.
making up for lost time
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Succulents, antlers and dead rattle snakes done right. Georgia O’Keefe at home.
style
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Stop!
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Drop
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Roll.
Originally I posted a Foxy Brown video here, but Foxy didn’t play well with others, so she’s been replaced with Alain Delon. That’s all folks.
kind of obsessed with: Tom Palumbo
Italian photographer and director.
red means stop
yellow chair means chill
green means go check out more of Palumbo
Here’s his official bio.
And here’s his official flickr with lots, lots, lots more amazing stuff. “Paris 1962” set particularly recommended
