Sunday, May 30, 2010

SATC & Performance Art: Carrie and Marina, Together Again

While I was reading two recent posts from fellow blogger Brenda and the F Word I realized that two current, vastly different cultural phenomena are cosmically tied to one another. It was one of those quirky “a ha” moments. The one post is about her own visits to “The Artist Is Present” at MOMA,...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Flags In

Soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) will be joined by service members from the U.S. Marine Corps Ceremonial and Guard Company, U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard, U.S. Air Force Honor Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard Ceremonial Honor Guard in placing more than 250,000 grave decorating...
              

Sunday, May 23, 2010

"Pray for us now, and in the 6 long seasons of our death . . ."

LOST FINALE SPOILERSI can’t imagine LOST fans are happy about this ending: UPDATED 5/24.It turns out the Lost fans are split. Many believe the poetry and beauty of the series finale, particularly the emotional connection to the core characters through the use of flashbacks, outweighs the numerous plot...
              

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Twin Peaks Got Me LOST For Life

The Man From another Place: [talking backwards; subtitled]“She's filled with secrets. Where we're from, the birds sing a pretty song and there's always music in the air.” I am not a Lostie. I looked in on the pilot in 2004, but it didn’t suck me in. Then when reports started surfacing that it was...
              

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Blogger versus the Cuisinart Blade: Film at 11

The Cuisinart blade won. And then there was so much blood. It was one of those accidents that happens out-of-the blue. I was emptying my pots and pans cupboard as part of spring cleaning—getting to the bottom of things to clean.I put my left hand into the lower part of the cupboard, and hiding amongst...
              

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

May 2, 15:00 UTC, A Moment in Time

The Lens blog of the NY Times put out a call for people to take a picture of wherever they were at 15:00 U.T.C., Sunday, May 2. UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time; it translated to 11:00 a.m. for my little corner of the Upper West Side. And so I took a photo from the choir loft of Ascension Church...
              

Saturday, May 8, 2010

“Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.”

And so a generation of British children and their mothers was ushered into stories, songs, and nursery rhymes from 1950 to 1982 with this opening phrase to the BBC radio program “Listen with Mother.” It was followed by the Berceuse of Faure’s Dolly Suite for piano, now synonymous with the show.To all...
              

Sunday, May 2, 2010

The Road to China: Prometheus' "Gleam of Unwearying Fire" Controlled in Chongqing

A Theft of Epic Proportions“… and from that time Zeus was always mindful of the trick, and would not give the power of unwearying fire to the Melian race of mortal men who live on the earth. But the noble son of Iapetus outwitted him and stole the far-seen gleam of unwearying fire in a hollow fennel...
              
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