9/30/09
9/27/09
9/25/09
HUMOR LEXICON - GELOTOLOGY
GELOTOLOGY - The study of humor and laughter, from the Greek gelos, laughter
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
9/23/09
from VANITY FAIR KILLER@CRAIGSLIST
By Maureen Orth page 158 October 2009 Vanity Fair
LIFE WITHOUT PRIVACY
"Few Americans, even those from the younger, Internet generation, seem to understand how easily their clicks and text messages can be detected, and how little privacy any of us have anymore. Every search, every posting, every text message or Twitter, leaves a cyber footprint. The content of every e0mail sent by any one of us is kept by the Internet service provider and stored for a period of time, usually six to nine months. Google and Gmail used to store e-mails indefinitely; now they claim they're within the same range, but all the e-mail we choose to keep until we delete it can also be accessed by the provider."
LIFE WITHOUT PRIVACY
"Few Americans, even those from the younger, Internet generation, seem to understand how easily their clicks and text messages can be detected, and how little privacy any of us have anymore. Every search, every posting, every text message or Twitter, leaves a cyber footprint. The content of every e0mail sent by any one of us is kept by the Internet service provider and stored for a period of time, usually six to nine months. Google and Gmail used to store e-mails indefinitely; now they claim they're within the same range, but all the e-mail we choose to keep until we delete it can also be accessed by the provider."
9/21/09
GERALD MALANGA interview of ANDY WARHOL
MALANGA: What was the motive behind repeating the same image more than once in a painting?
WARHOL: I don't really know or remember. I think, at the time, I started repeating the same image because I liked the way the repetition changed the same image Also, I felt at the time, as I do now, that people can look at and absorb more than one image at a time.
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews. Thirty Seven Conversations with the Pop Master Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith (individual writer-interviews are named in these excerpts).
From an interview with Gerard Malanga in 1971.
WARHOL: I don't really know or remember. I think, at the time, I started repeating the same image because I liked the way the repetition changed the same image Also, I felt at the time, as I do now, that people can look at and absorb more than one image at a time.
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews. Thirty Seven Conversations with the Pop Master Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith (individual writer-interviews are named in these excerpts).
From an interview with Gerard Malanga in 1971.
9/18/09
HUMOR LEXICON ZANY
ZANY: The clown's assistant, from the name Zanni, short for Giovanni. In old Italian Dramas, the clown would make fun of the serious characters. The zany would make fun of the clown.
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
9/15/09
GETTY CENTER ART MUSEUM MARGINALIA in MANUSCRIPTS
Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts Daily through November 8, 2009
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
"Part of the genius of medieval art lies in its unique ability to combine serious and profound images with playful and witty ones. In illuminated manuscripts, a primary artistic medium of the Middle Ages, scenes in the margins of a page often comment on the paintings illustrating the text in the center. As often as they expand on the narrative, they poke fun at the lofty themes and, more broadly, at human foibles. Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts explores the margins of medieval books and explains its wealth of subject matter: children playing games, romantic pursuits, men battling fantastic creatures, and composite figures—half-human, half-beast—that wend their ways through the sinuous foliage of the painted borders."
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
"Part of the genius of medieval art lies in its unique ability to combine serious and profound images with playful and witty ones. In illuminated manuscripts, a primary artistic medium of the Middle Ages, scenes in the margins of a page often comment on the paintings illustrating the text in the center. As often as they expand on the narrative, they poke fun at the lofty themes and, more broadly, at human foibles. Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts explores the margins of medieval books and explains its wealth of subject matter: children playing games, romantic pursuits, men battling fantastic creatures, and composite figures—half-human, half-beast—that wend their ways through the sinuous foliage of the painted borders."
9/14/09
SCREENWRITER NOT
I've been plagued with naysayers at times in my life. One time in a coffee house where I worked writing on my laptop every afternoon, I was in a sea of screenwriters - all male. They were coming and going all day, moving from one coffee house to another to be out of their apartments, active, busy, but also in a clique. They rarely if ever talked to me.
One day one of them actually walked to my table. He didn't introduce himself or ask my name or make any small talk at all. All he wanted to know was "Are You A Member of the Screenwriters Union?" I guess all those hours of hearing me type away had gotten to them.
I wonder if the other guys put him up to adventuring on over to me. I'm not a screenwriter. But in Los Angeles it often feels like that's the only writing anyone understands or thinks is worth a writers time.
As they say, just about everyone has one screenplay in their drawer at their "real job." - And when the time comes I wouldn't be surprised I too adapt a fiction or nonfiction book I've worked on into a screenplay.
I can't say it actually infuriated me since, sadly I have grown accustomed to naysayers, but I overheard this same guy talking one of his pals and calling me "THE GIRL WHO TYPES!"
It was beyond these sexist men to imagine that I am NOT a GIRL, but a woman, that I am not just TYPING, but creating content or creating a world of imagination. Nasty comments like this are consciously or not, aimed at reducing a hard working, educated, talented, and skillful writer, into a secretary.
I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR!
9/5/09
EXCERPT from I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR - ANDY WARHOL
From an interview by Bess Winakor in 1975, page 224
Q: How do you live? How big is your home?
A: About eight rooms, six rooms. Very small. Six or seven rooms.
Q: How are they decorated?
A Just junk. paper and boxes. Things I bring home and leave around and never pick up. Old interviews, magazines.
Q: Do you live alone or live with somebody?
A: I live alone.
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR
The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
Thirty Seven Conversations with the Pop Master
Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith (individual writer-interviews are named in these excerpts).
Q: How do you live? How big is your home?
A: About eight rooms, six rooms. Very small. Six or seven rooms.
Q: How are they decorated?
A Just junk. paper and boxes. Things I bring home and leave around and never pick up. Old interviews, magazines.
Q: Do you live alone or live with somebody?
A: I live alone.
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR
The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
Thirty Seven Conversations with the Pop Master
Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith (individual writer-interviews are named in these excerpts).
9/2/09
ROBERT FROST Quote
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. - Robert Frost
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