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Month: November 2008

  • We ate bison

    We ate bison Light box enlargement Thanksgiving. We handled it this year by eating bison and remembering its role in the lives of some of our ancestors and their appreciation of this animal and its gifts, which were of such great importance that the buffalo were one of the founding clans. It seemed apropos and…

  • After the Rush at the King Tut Exhibit

    [clear] As we were leaving, we were told by a harried, exhausted, but friendly worker that there had been 6000 visitors in 3 hours. I wasn’t surprised to hear it. What did surprise me is we’d purchased tickets a couple of months ago because I had the impression sell-out crowds were being anticipated and that…

  • Window Washers on Symphony Tower

    Window Washers on Symphony Tower

    Window Washers on the Symphony Tower, Midtown Atlanta View On White

  • Bye-bye goldfish

    Doing my yoga last night, I missed my goldfish. You see, our apartment is small enough that I have only one place I can do my yoga, which is in the walkway between the living room and computer/dining room/office which is where the fish tank is tucked in a corner next to the bathroom door.…

  • At the High for the Chinese Terra Cotta Army Exhibit (2 views)

    At the High for the Chinese Terra Cotta Army Exhibit (2 views)

    View at the High Enlarge light box link Entrance to the High

  • Writing about something as if it's someone else's situation may not help with making a decision

    There was a little family that lived in an apartment in an old, old building circa 1910. Their apartment was pretty small and the woman learned a larger apartment with a better view had opened up in the front building. The woman went to look at the larger apartment. The larger apartment was significantly larger…

  • Heston's "On the B Side" on the Michael Baisden show, now

    Heston, today, on the Michael Baisden show. Heston is the artist Marty recorded who recently released his CD Storyteller. It’s also available on iTunes. Update: After a couple of brief interviews with Heston, and a few callers speaking to Heston, they’re playing “No Way”. A nice, gentle choice. Sounds really good broadcast. Update: Heston’s page…

  • Free samba music by Bratuke–right here, right now

    Marty recorded this carnival samba today for the percussion group, Bratuke. They’re a new group, just starting to perform more frequently and are working on getting a website up. If you’re in Little Five Points (here in Atlanta) they practice every Sunday afternoon at the community center. The names of the players: Colin Agnew, Rafael…

  • Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers

    About 9 years ago I did an interview with an individual who was in Daniel Boyd’s Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers! I was reminded of it because I was going through the Big Sofa site this past weekend, giving it a minor face lift (one that would let people know this was a…

  • Kubrick’s Lolita

    Kubrick’s Lolita

    In which James Mason and Shelley Winters beat Lucy and Dezi into the ground with baseball bats, then hop up and down upon their comedic graves Clare Quilty, the chair That I’d been directly immersed into the chaos of someone’s revealed dream is how I felt the first time I watched Humbert Humbert (James Mason)…

  • Masculine, Feminine

    (Originally placed online in 2000. Am migrating it over from another section of the website.) Whistling under the credits. MA SCU LIN FEMININ Sound of gunshots. 15 scenes Straight to Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud), the face (or one of them) of the French New Wave Cinema, a role he’d occupied since starring in Truffaut’s “400 Blows”…

  • Paths of Glory

    Paths of Glory

    (Originally placed online in 2000. Am migrating here from another part of the website.) Unusual for him to do while watching a film, about a quarter of the way through Paths of Glory my husband got up, went in and sat in front of the computer to check the email. I waited a moment then…