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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Dressed for success
Via Leta: my internship in New York came a little late (1978), but here I am at Sterling Cooper (standing in for W.R. Grace & Co.), ready to set the world on fire. (Actually, John Molloy would have been appalled … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Television
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Iconic
Here comes the sad but inevitable news that Merce Cunningham has died at the age of 90.
Posted in Dance, In Memoriam
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A turn of phrase
A name from the past: C. Northcote Parkinson has a page at Economist.com, excerpted from Tim Hindle’s guide to management gurus. Looking back, it’s not clear to me that Parkinson was ever serious in his assertion that “work expands to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and Business, Public Policy and Politics
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Accelerando
…under the pressure of endless human tinkering, cultivated plant varieties evolved too quickly for agricultural writers and lumbering printing presses to keep up…. See growing things as the earth’s software for which manuals can never quite keep pace. Rapid botanical … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture
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Classic
On my last trip to California, I was dealing with family business, so I didn’t in get much sightseeing or birding—none, really. But I did start building my collection of West Coast street name signs with this easy-to-read example from … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Design
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Who killed Sean Regan?
A host of others, smiling killers and gruesome butlers, stalk through the dark,rainy landscape of the film like wraiths. The Big Sleep [1946] is something other than a detective story, with the drive toward rationality that designation is supposed to … Continue reading
Posted in Film
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Roger, Twan
Via kottke.org, awesome annotated transcript of the last half hour of audio communications between Houston and the Eagle LM during its descent and landing on the Moon. I didn’t realize that an important part of the astronauts’ navigation was watching … Continue reading
Posted in History
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Voice
Good piece by Jeff Lunden on playwright Theresa Rebeck, on the art vs. commerce dance and writing for TV series. “In television, what you are doing is trying to fit your voice into a particular mold,” Rebeck says. “When I … Continue reading
Posted in Theater
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All My Sons: an award
Hooray for us: it has come to my attention that Providence Players of Fairfax’s production of All My Sons has been honored with the 2009 Ruby Griffith Award for All Round Production Excellence.
Posted in Backstage
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Untamable
The image from Henry Darger used in the cover design of the NYRB’s reissue of a novel from 1929 by Richard Hughes, is apparently all too appropriate, if we trust reviewer Andrew Sean Greer. To say A High Wind in … Continue reading
Posted in Painting, Prose Fiction
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The Vogons among us
Geoffrey K. Pullum reproduces a turd of plagiarized septic verse.
Posted in Fun
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Shakespeare’s R&J
1st Stage presents another successful showcase for its developing young talent in Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R&J, another script that calls for flexible ensemble performers. Four boys in a Catholic prep school take a break one evening from “amo-amas-amat” and antediluvian … Continue reading
A whole day of Tumbls
Lots of little tasks accomplished today; the sad thing is, none of them are actually written down on a to-do list. This is just dealing with little piles of stuff all over the house. Polished two pairs of shoes. Realized … Continue reading
Posted in Like Life
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John and Robert are somewhere smiling
Alex Ross falls under the spell of the Make Music festival in New York: It was in the spirit of the day to be charmed rather than annoyed by the accidental music of the city: the beeping of a bus’s … Continue reading
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