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| TT: Half a loaf |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 1:00 am |
| Tags: Main |
| Doing nothing no longer comes naturally to me, but I gave it my best shot yesterday. To be sure, I didn't spend the whole day doing nothing. I couldn't--I had a deadline to hit. I got up at seven, wrote and filed my Wall Street Journal drama column, answered my e-mail, and took note of the death of Elaine Dundy. But by noon I was through with the |
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| CAAF: Krook go boom |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 1:00 am |
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| Remember that point in Bleak House when Krook, the drunken rag-and-bone guy, spontaneously combusts in his shop? In my mind I always related the fatal combustion less to Krook's drinking than to his oiliness and the general blackness of his soul, as if he were a one-man grease fire lit by his own evil (as it were). Then a couple weeks ago, Wait |
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| TT: Almanac |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 1:00 am |
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| "I once asked Ben Britten what he thought was the most important requisite in composing opera. I was sure he would say a sense of drama, ability to indicate the meaning of a scene musically in a matter of seconds. What he said was that the most important thing a composer must have is the ability to write many kinds of music--chorus alone, chorus |
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| LOVE: Connect to Your Supporting Cast |
| Published: May 6, 2008, 12:00 am |
| The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool. Almost Famous (2000) Lester Bangs(Philip Seymour Hoffman) |
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| Under the Moon |
| Published: May 5, 2008, 5:53 pm |
| Tags: Blogging, Dreams, Poetry |
| I have no happiness in dreaming of Brycelinde, Nor Avalon the grass-green hollow, nor Joyous Isle, Where one found Lancelot crazed and hid him for a while; Nor Uladh, when Naoise had thrown a sail upon the wind; Nor lands that seem too dim to be burdens on the heart: Land-under-Wave, where out of the moon’s light and the sun’s Seven |
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| TT: Elaine Dundy, R.I.P. |
| Published: May 5, 2008, 11:57 am |
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| Elaine Dundy, author of The Dud Avocado, died four days ago. No obituaries as of this hour, but the news is up on her Web site. It was my privilege to be asked to write an introduction to last year's new edition of The Dud Avocado, published by New York Review Books, and Dundy made it known to me in due course that she liked what I wrote, a fact |
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| Becoming an Obituary Writer Again |
| Published: May 5, 2008, 2:00 am |
| Tags: Sadness |
| Many moons ago, I wrote obituaries for a small Iowa newspaper. Last week, I worked on my grandmother’s obituary with…my grandmother. She dictated in what order she wanted items to appear and which items were to be included. M. called me, asked how I was, and I said, “well, I’m writing an obituary this morning.” It |
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| TT: R&R from A to Z |
| Published: May 5, 2008, 1:00 am |
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| I'd planned to tell you all about my recent trip to Santa Fe today, but the truth is that after flying back to New York by way of Albuquerque, Denver, and Newark, then seeing four new shows in a row, one of them in Brooklyn and two of them very serious, I'm just too damn tired. Besides, I've got to knock out three Wall Street Journal columns |
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| TT: Almanac |
| Published: May 5, 2008, 1:00 am |
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| "I come to the conclusion that it is a mistake to try to write highly 'poetical' and 'literary' librettos. The poet ought to concentrate entirely on drama and absolute truth to human nature, however unreal or fantastic the story may be; and always to use the very simplest words which everybody can understand at first hearing. |
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| LIFE: Build Your Story |
| Published: May 5, 2008, 12:00 am |
| There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then it's up to you to make it happen. Can't Hardly Wait (1998) Angel Stripper(Jenna Elfman) |
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| Stone Soup - Marcia Brown |
| Published: May 4, 2008, 9:59 pm |
| Marcia Brown won a Caldecott Medal in 1947 for her version of an old French folktale, Stone Soup. This is a great story of ingenuity and cooperation. In the story, three soldiers are returning home from the wars. They are tired and haven't had any food for two days. |
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| Hives at Home Depot |
| Published: May 4, 2008, 5:59 pm |
| Tags: Creative Process, Food, Gardening |
| Creating a garden makes sense to me. Why join a gym when I can get exercise by gardening? I also want to prove to myself that I really can grow something and have some kind of self sufficiency regarding food. Today, I went to Home Depot. Since the store is enormous, it’s hard to find what I need. All I wanted were clay pots. I could only |
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| Supersized Sadness |
| Published: May 4, 2008, 3:20 pm |
| Tags: Sadness, Dying |
| I’m not going to hide the fact that I’m extremely sad about my grandmother’s situation. Sure, she’s old. Sure, we should all expect grandparents to die. Sure, I’m lucky to have known her for this long. Sure and sure. However, all of that does not stop the overwhelming sadness. It’s not just the dying. It was |
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| Green Issue |
| Published: May 4, 2008, 3:12 pm |
| Tags: Gardening |
| Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it's not an easy one to answer. I don't know about you, but for me the most upsetting moment in An Inconvenient Truth came long after Al Gore scared the hell out of me, constructing an utterly convincing case that the very |
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| SELF: Define Your Character |
| Published: May 4, 2008, 12:00 am |
| It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream. Destination Mookbeam Alpha (1976) John Koenig(Martin Landau) |
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