3/30/12
3/27/12
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO BEST SELLER LIST RESULT OF WEEKLY SURVEYS OF INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES
"The NPR Bestseller Lists are produced in collaboration with the American Booksellers Association. The lists are compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide."
3/24/12
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Quotation
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin
3/18/12
AUTRY'S MASTERS OF THE AMERICAN WEST ART SHOW : RIDICULOUS AND INSULTING GALLERY POLICY
Ridiculous and Insulting.
The Masters of the American West exhibit closed today.
Last week I went to see it. I love art and I suppose I'm always hoping I'll see a piece that gives me chills or makes me loose track of time just looking at it, which happens once in a while, and has happened twice in all the years I've gone to the Autry Western Heritage Museum, which, since 2003 has been the Autry National Center.
I was walking around the gallery, and I knew I wanted to write about it, and after I saw Mian Situ's paintings of 1902 San Francisco China Town street scenes, which I loved, and JoAnn Peralta's "Spanish Shawl," which beautifully featured the play of candlelight through a shaw, and Scott Talliman Powers "Daily Bread," a painting of an old man panhandling, well I thought if I was going to write about it, I needed to take some notes.
I took a small 3X5 lined paper notebook and a pencil out of my purse and started to write down the names of the artists and the pieces; maybe later I'd figure out which one was my very favorite. Then there was a secutity guard telling me I was not allowed to take notes or "sketch!"
Whaaat!?!
A woman using a laptop which she seems to have taken out of a polka-dot rolling suitcase was writing/typing on the balcony.
Students with paper and pencils roamed the lower galleries.
I was not taking pictures with a cell phone as some people were.
I did not have any camera with me at all.
I didn't bring any brats in stollers, particularly not the screaming and running brats so often being pushed around the Autry since it's across the street from the zoo; the main reason not to go there on weekends.
I was using my pencil to write, not stab paintings.
I wasn't physically too close to any paintings, nor did I try to touch a sculpture.
I guess the days when people actually go to museums with sketch pad and art supplies, as I did in my teens, is over: Too much concern over someone lending their pictures, notes, sketches, drawings to forgers and counterfeiters?!
It was explained to me, because I asked to speak to a higher authority, and a woman named Lauren spoke to me, that because the museum does not OWN the paintings and scultpures on display, they have this policy.
THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE SECURITY GUARDS! I said.
C Christine Trzyna 2012 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights.
The Masters of the American West exhibit closed today.
Last week I went to see it. I love art and I suppose I'm always hoping I'll see a piece that gives me chills or makes me loose track of time just looking at it, which happens once in a while, and has happened twice in all the years I've gone to the Autry Western Heritage Museum, which, since 2003 has been the Autry National Center.
I was walking around the gallery, and I knew I wanted to write about it, and after I saw Mian Situ's paintings of 1902 San Francisco China Town street scenes, which I loved, and JoAnn Peralta's "Spanish Shawl," which beautifully featured the play of candlelight through a shaw, and Scott Talliman Powers "Daily Bread," a painting of an old man panhandling, well I thought if I was going to write about it, I needed to take some notes.
I took a small 3X5 lined paper notebook and a pencil out of my purse and started to write down the names of the artists and the pieces; maybe later I'd figure out which one was my very favorite. Then there was a secutity guard telling me I was not allowed to take notes or "sketch!"
Whaaat!?!
A woman using a laptop which she seems to have taken out of a polka-dot rolling suitcase was writing/typing on the balcony.
Students with paper and pencils roamed the lower galleries.
I was not taking pictures with a cell phone as some people were.
I did not have any camera with me at all.
I didn't bring any brats in stollers, particularly not the screaming and running brats so often being pushed around the Autry since it's across the street from the zoo; the main reason not to go there on weekends.
I was using my pencil to write, not stab paintings.
I wasn't physically too close to any paintings, nor did I try to touch a sculpture.
I guess the days when people actually go to museums with sketch pad and art supplies, as I did in my teens, is over: Too much concern over someone lending their pictures, notes, sketches, drawings to forgers and counterfeiters?!
It was explained to me, because I asked to speak to a higher authority, and a woman named Lauren spoke to me, that because the museum does not OWN the paintings and scultpures on display, they have this policy.
THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE SECURITY GUARDS! I said.
C Christine Trzyna 2012 All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights.
3/15/12
STEVEN KING'S 11/22/63 : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW
This is a big, heavy hard cover book. It's a long read and it's also a page turner, if, like me, you've been reading around the Kennedys and the Assassination in 1963 for years.
Steven King's 11/22/63 is a book with a few genres intermixing.
It's a story with a mystical - spiritual - quality to it, though King's reputation for gore is maintained with murders and mass chaos. You have to accept that a form of time travel is possible, though it's not science fiction but more a time warp that can be accessed.
There's a love story, one that provides the funniest moments.
But mostly what the Kennedy assassination story and Steven King's book is, is a MYSTERY story. Writing this book was a challenge not only because of the many genres that might have competed for prominence and become confusion in a lesser writer's manuscript, but because it's easy to find yourself searching for the information that his research brought forth, information that you know is controversial, such as if Lee Harvey Oswald was really the assassin and a lone gunman or not, and not sticking with the fictive story.
Steven King is so successful, a master, so maybe it's difficult to say anything revealing about his work overall. I've read Cell and The Dome, and one or two other titles over the years. I'm not a fan of gore but at least he's generally realistic with its possibilities. I do love the way he has set his characters in circumstances. I was left feeling satisfied with the read, which required that I stay home an entire weekend, in bed, with some crackers and cheese and the book.
Steven King's 11/22/63 is a book with a few genres intermixing.
It's a story with a mystical - spiritual - quality to it, though King's reputation for gore is maintained with murders and mass chaos. You have to accept that a form of time travel is possible, though it's not science fiction but more a time warp that can be accessed.
There's a love story, one that provides the funniest moments.
But mostly what the Kennedy assassination story and Steven King's book is, is a MYSTERY story. Writing this book was a challenge not only because of the many genres that might have competed for prominence and become confusion in a lesser writer's manuscript, but because it's easy to find yourself searching for the information that his research brought forth, information that you know is controversial, such as if Lee Harvey Oswald was really the assassin and a lone gunman or not, and not sticking with the fictive story.
Steven King is so successful, a master, so maybe it's difficult to say anything revealing about his work overall. I've read Cell and The Dome, and one or two other titles over the years. I'm not a fan of gore but at least he's generally realistic with its possibilities. I do love the way he has set his characters in circumstances. I was left feeling satisfied with the read, which required that I stay home an entire weekend, in bed, with some crackers and cheese and the book.
3/9/12
PITTSBURGH TOONSEUM WAREHOUSE THOUSANDS OF COMIC BOOKS RUINED
Donations are coming in... The Associated Press story went from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette to newspapers around the country. Thousands of Comic Books were ruined.
"Executive Director Joe Wos says the most valuable comics weren’t at the warehouse, but some of what was lost will be "very difficult to replace." He says much of the material was waiting for transfer to the ToonSeum’s new on-site library.The ToonSeum is one of only three museums in the country dedicated exclusively to the cartoon arts."
"Executive Director Joe Wos says the most valuable comics weren’t at the warehouse, but some of what was lost will be "very difficult to replace." He says much of the material was waiting for transfer to the ToonSeum’s new on-site library.The ToonSeum is one of only three museums in the country dedicated exclusively to the cartoon arts."
3/3/12
ROLLING STONES : MOONLIGHT MILE
Remember when I first heard this song being captured by the magical mystical quality of it. The lyrics brought me right to a country road, the land covered in snow, the moon high in the sky, and walking alone on it. Today I am struck with how "Asian" the melody.
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