PARTIAL 500 YEAR OLD NUREMBERG CHRONICAL FOUND IN UTAH I ADVISE CAUTION

Link to the article by Brian Skoloff by clicking the title above.

The book, found in Utah, is said to have been printed in 1493 and is a world history from biblical times and one of the "most lavishly illustrated books of the 15th century." However, I advise caution here for two reasons.

First, I remember that a number of faked documents showed up in Utah and were bought by the Latter Day Saints some years ago. It was a scandal when they were discovered to have been forged. This involved the forger using paper and ink that was of the time period for the original documents but these were faked and forged anyway.

Secondly, perhaps it's the photographs but for books 500 years old and stored in an attic, the paper appears too new. Is it time to get this book over to the Getty (which has had its share of forged and faked sculpture?) for examination Has this book been carbon dated?

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH : ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS LINK HERE!

Link here to information on the National Academy of American Poets and APRIL which is National Poetry Month...

Go ahead and write a poem! (And turn off those censors in your head!)

HELP ME ID WHO SAID SOMETHING LIKE "THE NEGATIVE VOICE"

is not more intelligent?"
Who was it that said that we should not be swayed by the authoritative negative voice as more intelligent or knowledgeable than a positive one?

This is not an advertisement for positive thinking by the way.

COMMENTARY ON THE LOVIN SPOONFUL: DARLING BE HOME SOON

I had a total kid crush on John Sebastian. (Much Older Men!?) These days I seem to be too pragmatic to really get crushes. This song though is about what we all really need in our lives - one person who is our touchstone. Totally trustworthy and dependable when there's a crisis. Some people who have no partners tell me they would go without sex if they could marry such a person.


June 2022 Decided to repost without the expired video...

WHITE OLEANDER by JANET FITCH THE SECOND READ AROUND HAS ME THINKING ABOUT THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA POETRY SCENE A WHILE BACK

Recently bought a copy of "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch at a library book sale, and immediately (again) became transfixed by the story of the poetess who poisons the poetry groupie who seduces and humiliates her and, most of all, the story of her daughter, who goes through a number of abusive homes in the LA County Foster Care System, while trying on various identities as part of her formative development.

This is a second time around for me reading Fitch's book, which I hear was turned into a movie a while back.

At the time the book first came out I heard Fitch was a local author, and this book is sweet with references to the towns, topography, and weather of Tujunga, Sun Valley, Van Nuys, Hollywood...

"White Oleander" brings me back to a place I was several years ago when I heard a lot of poetry being read and spoken word around town. I remember people/characters who were so like this poetess in their way, esteemed for publishing a few books maybe but also not operating in full sanity.

I recall the revenge poetry that was often staged to get back at a ex lover or to reveal an affair to a dummy husband.

That tragedy was an inspiration for creativity is, well, not surprising.

I recall that there was competitiveness among poets for mentions in poetry magazines and covers on literary publications (that probably wasn't much different than Supermodels doing what they "had to" to get an assignment) and so much talk of who was "Real" or "Serious."

I recall there was a lot of jealousy and sabotage going on.

So the other day, I spent some time on the net looking to see what Web presence, if any, certain poets and poetesses (old fashioned word choice I know) had on YouTube, if anyone was publishing books, or even remained in poetry.

I realize that not everyone is interested in Web presence and the absence of people/characters is not necessarily telling. After all, some poets like their privacy.

It was sort of interesting to see what's up with people/characters, rather than surprising, the way it's interesting when you hear about someone you used to know in high school but whose life no longer touches yours.

Thus: The man who was a high school drop out and openly ridiculed me (lots of laughter around) for taking my reentry into college seriously (all that studying late at night in coffee houses) turns up with a MFA and as an esteemed teacher. HA HA HA! His ex-girlfriend who was the one with the true educational ambitions may have earned a PHD and a new name somewhere along the line. Where is she? (Maybe a married housewife poet like Sylvia?)



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C 1999 White Oleander is by Janet Fitch and published by Little, Brown, and Company

RUSSIAN LETTER IN A BOTTLE

This blog loves message in a bottle stories and here is another... "It said: "My name is Frank, and I'm five years old. My dad and I are traveling on a ship to Denmark. If you find this letter, please write back to me, and I will write back to you." "The letter, dated 1987, included an address in the town of Coesfeld. The boy in the letter, Frank Uesbeck, is now 29. His parents still live at the letter's address. "At first I didn't believe it," Uesbeck told the AP about getting the response from Korotkikh. In fact, he barely remembered the trip at all; his father actually wrote the letter. The Russian boy and the German man met each other earlier this month via an Internet video link."

WILL TAISHA ABELAR'S NEW BOOK COME OUT TODAY - MARCH 30 2011 - AS PROMISED? A PUBLISHING MYSTERY STORY BY CHRISTINE TRZYNA

Guess what?  If you go to April 1 2023 and see the post TAISHA ABELAR'S LOST BOOK -   STALKING WITH THE DOUBLE (RESTORED VERSION)  you will be able to read a manuscript copy of the book.

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NOTE JUNE 2022  I think Taisha Abelar is in life eternal but physically not in the body she came in with during her life that entangled with Castaneda. 

NOTE MARCH 2019 - this post gets lots of hits and as of this moment, this book is not out and I doubt it ever will be.The Promise of Power: Reflections on the Toltec Warriors' Dialogue from the Collected Works of Carlos Castaneda by Tomas is reference type book compiled by a mysterious person that Castaneda-curious people might want to read. "A new Taisha Abelar book is about to be released. It will be released on 30th March 2011,  Penguin: Untitled Sequel Sorcerer’s Crossing."

Taisha Abelar, if you don't know, was one of the close devotees of the writer Carlos Castanada, one of his, if you will, "Witches," though perhaps what she was really was more of a "Sorcerer," or, if you will, simply a Yogini with a different cultural and religious sensibility than Hinduism, a sensibility that was about Ancient Mexico.

Today, March 30, 2011, is supposed to be the release date of a book she was writing when she, and the other "Witches," disappeared after Carlos Castaneda's death. This book has had at least one other false start that I've heard about. It has been "at a publishers" for years and the left behind employees of Castaneda's who give workshops have been very, shall we say, studied, in the way they use language to indicate that maybe Taisha is "traveling."

Years ago an employee of a coffee house I frequented turned me on to her first and only book, and it's a book that I've read more than once, several years apart; I like to see how the material sits with me and my own emerging sensibilities.

This book has more than the disappearance of Taisha and a few other cohorts - possibly in a suicide in a mine shaft in the Arizona desert but the bodies were never found - as a mystery.

It is also a publishing mystery. You see, the ISBN, which are printed on the back of most books published so that they can be identified by a code that allows them to be purchased by book stores with ease, are purchased by the publishing house in a block. This sequel will be sold with an ISBN code in that original block. Some interpret this standard practice as indicative that the book was actually written at about the same time, in the works anyway, and suspect that what has actually happened is that Taisha's estate took some notes and turned them over to a ghost writer - or two - or a dozen by now - to turn it into a book akin to the original. So did Taisha actually write this book and will it be anything at all like the original which was written, though she is called a "Stalker," while "in Dreaming?"

In order to turn out a book that is truly Taisha's, if the manuscript (or not) that she left behind was indeed in need of major reworking, the ghost writer(s) would really have to get into her head, maybe even live her kind of life, in which there was NO TIME for anything much besides the search for eternal life of a not Christian kind. And will this ghost writer(s), like all ghost writer(s), who never get credited, remain silent and be possibly the biggest publishing business secret since the supposed secret of who actually wrote Castaneda's books?

I've been fascinated with this story from the beginning when, after the disappearance, it was Taisha's estranged family who wanted her declared dead, some said, so they could benefit in some way from her estate, which was an inheritance from Carlos. Maybe those left-behind didn't want a planned group suicide to dirty up the Castaneda inheritance of magic or maybe, for all we know, it will be Taisha returned to this world, who will do the book signings?

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SHAKE RUSSEL DEEP IN THE WEST

Heard this song and "You Got A Lover" in the late 1970's at a club called Steamboat Springs in Houston Texas. The songs stuck with me. So many years later I was in a coffee house on Ventura Blvd in Los Angeles and I overheard some people talking about ordering Shake Russel tapes or CD's I went over to talk to them. Still going like all singer-songwriters do. Beautiful song. "Are you listening to me when I'm talking to you? - Together we're one and divided we're through."

BEADWORK MAGAZINE'S CHALLENGE CREATIVE INSPIRATION

Having designed some jewelry in my time, recently I started reading BEADWORK magazine, and I love the feature they call "The Challenge." A few designers receive the same assortment of beads and stones and metal elements and then do what they will with the package.

They don't have to use all the beads provided and it seems to be OK if they use some of their own supply as well. Besides seeing how different artists manifest art in the form of the functional art of jewelry, I've seen some of the most gorgeous jewelry I have ever seen in this magazine.

To bead takes great patience and manual dexterity. I am truly impressed. And for those who want to follow along there are often patterns and instructions.

HENRI MATISSE quote

"Another word for creativity is courage." - Henri Matisse

OTHER PEOPLE'S REJECTION LETTERS Edited by BILL SHAPIRO : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW

OTHER PEOPLE'S REJECTION LETTERS
"Relationship Enders, Career Killers, and 150 Other Letters You'll Be Glad You Didn't Receive"

edited by Bill Shapiro
Published by Clarkson Potter Publishers (Random House/Bertelsmann)

OK, with a SUBTITLE LIKE THAT, WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO GIVE A LOOK-SEE? I like this kind of collection, scrapbook-like with it's reproductions of the actual letters including, it would seem, some real addresses on the letterheads, like the letters recieved by persons dumped from the LDS church. I'm a sucker for books that are scrap-book like!

But rather than horrified, I thought it was all FUN! Perverse Fun maybe but still fun because we know that those who contributed their misfortune to this book must have gotten over it already in order to reveal it to the world! And if they didn't get over it, then they GOT EVEN by showing just how cold and without compassion some letter senders can be!

Will this book stop YOU from forgetting to be kind when you ought to be? Will you tear up that Dear John letter and figure out a better way to say goodbye? If only this book didn't have so many REJECTIONS FROM PUBLISHERS in it!

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STRAND BOOKSTORE NEW YORK SELLS INTERIOR DESIGNERS BOOKS BY THE FOOT

According to Lisa Birnbach and Chip Kidd, authors of TRUE PREP, an Alfred A Knopf Borzoi Book published in recent months, the STRAND BOOK STORE IN NEW YORK has 18 miles of books. Preppies and their designers are DECORATING WITH BOOKS, often purchased (remaining unread?) by the foot, but with the assistance of 3 employees who know the kind of titles a person might want to have on display on their shelves. Nancy Bass Wyden is the store owner who says that Ralph Lauren stores and J. Crew Stores use the store as a resource for books in the categories of glamour, aspirational, on the Vanderbilts and Astors, and Slim Aarons photos of WASPS.

CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW : THE GIRL IN ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S SHOWER by ROBERT GRAYSMITH

The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower
by Robert Graysmith
C2010 Berkeley Publishing - a Penguin Group

Marli Renfro, a nudist, and early Playboy Playmate, was the BODY DOUBLE not the STAND IN for Janet Leigh in Hitchcock's Psycho. The murder scene, filmed for days in a shower set, and then cut cut cut to build fear in the audience and get past the censors. Despite the black and white film - or perhaps because of it - the innovative flashes of pictures went so quick it was almost subliminal and the audiences' tension in watching the film exploded. Hitchcock's attention to detail was unprecedented and the scene was part of movie making history.

The author, true crime author Robert Graysmith, has long had a thing for this model, Marli Renfro, that spurred him on to detail a life gone bitterly ironic when she was murdered, but it turns out that the press had reported erroneously, because the reporters didn't know the difference between a Body Double and the Stand In. Turns out Marli never was murdered and has lived an OK life defined by outdoorsy activities.

Within this book Graysmith not only takes us on the behind the scenes making of a Hitchcock movie, but also the history of Playboy magazine and Clubs and the players in the early hours of the sexual revolution in the early 1960's.

Is it awful to reveal that I felt kind of wrongly lead on that Marli Renfro had not been murdered? I wish only that Graysmith had, at the point of revealing this to us readers, gone on to tell the story of the woman who had been, the Stand In!

All and all a fascinating tale and one that made me think of the days I worked as a movie extra.

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