February 2012
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Crust of diamonds on the throat of a corpse.
While searching for book PR materials for a friend in my emails, I found this lovely poem by Ernest Hilbert about a great white shark and other things.
“Ashore” by Ernest Hilbert
The harpooned great white shark heaves onto sand, Nudged by waves, red cavern of dripping teeth. A crowd comes. Loud gulls wreathe the booming mist. Blue flies cloud the fishy sunset, and land. One, sated, is slapped...
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THIS HOTEL SUCKS: Hotel Diva, San Francisco,... →
Hemingway references (“clean, well-lighted place”) and all the colorful details are here. I think that club kid was just trying to keep his piss off the ground, keeping SF clean! I love House of Nanking, too. Had a wonderful late lunch with my mom and brother there. thishotelsucks:
Hotel Diva, San Francisco, CA
This one I kind of arranged on my own. I may have gone through Orbitz or Expedia,...
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I Love to Hate Valentine's Day
My friend’s son wrote this charming ode to Valentine’s Day. Check out Margo Candela’s blog and books here.
I Love to Hate Valentine’s Day
A poem by my 6th grader… Valentine’s Day is like a thorn, like exposed skin, torn like a trip to the dentist worse than being a dancer’s apprentice With me looking forlorn, like eating burnt corn I hope I’m not on...
“I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I...”
– Former poet laureate Donald Hall on poetry. (via nprfreshair)
January 2012
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“Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind...”
– James Lever (via putthison)
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1:59pm on Friday, January 13th | Posted by LA Phil Staff
On your marks…get set…and GO!
That’s right – after many months of anticipation (and many, many more of preparation), The Mahler Project officially begins tonight as Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Phil and guest artistsThomas Hampson and Miah Persson in Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and Symphony No. 1.
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The Creative Brain On Exercise | Fast Company -... →
“For artists, entrepreneurs, and any other driven creators, exercise is a powerful tool in the quest to help transform the persistent uncertainty, fear, and anxiety that accompanies the quest to create from a source of suffering into something less toxic, then potentially even into fuel.”
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Israeli Anti-Drug Campaign →
Best use of the new Facebook timeline I’ve seen.
Eliot’s Story and the Creative Process (Mine and... →
Not a pile of crap. A couple of hypotheses on the big, scary artistic “process” by my friend, Susan DeFreitas Timmons.
“For a long time, I’ve had a story in my head. Maybe you have too. I don’t know the story in your head, but the story in mine is about a kid named Eliot who’s obsessed with science. He’s got a startling grasp on the big picture, but he’s a little out of touch...
