Berlin Wall in Los Angeles. Original Graffiti.
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Berlin Wall in Los Angeles. Detail, original graffiti.
“Kent Twitchell, whose larger-than-life paintings cover entire walls and sides of freeways, said he planned to “bookend” two sections of the wall with portraits of President John F. Kennedy, who denounced the barrier in a Berlin speech in 1961, and President Ronald Reagan, who famously demanded, “Tear down this wall!” shortly before it came down in 1989.
But as he rushed to finish the portraits, Twitchell said he was told by organizers that he could leave one of the paintings in his studio: There was no room for both.
“They said there would only be room for one and they just assumed it would be Kennedy,” the disappointed artist said this week as he continued to work at putting the final touches on the Reagan one.”
They eventually found room for both, obvs, just in time for the ceremony tonight (I took the picture around 4:00). That’s Twitchell talking to the lady with the dog.
Update: Looking at the Wende Musem gallery, it looks like they made room by cutting out half of JFK & RR’s faces.
Berlin Wall in Los Angeles
(Apologies for crappy cell phone pic)
“ Because, as someone who’s worked as an editor, writer and critic for almost two decades in the literary world, I’ve concluded, like most of my half-sentient colleagues, that the publishing industry is no better at ignoring gender than your average obstetrician.
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Lizzie Skurnick - Same Old Story: Best-Books Lists Snub Women Writers — Politics Daily
Lizzie Skurnick - Same Old Story: Best-Books Lists Snub Women Writers — Politics Daily
Afro-Peruvian
One learns many random things when writing trenchant thoughts on America’s Next Top Model. Not from the actual show, of course, there one only learns how to smize and practice casual racism. However, one can learn much in the following googling to check facts no one really cares about and never wind up in the actual recap. Ah, procrastinating. This week I learned about Afro-Peruvians, the descendants of African and Malagasy slaves brought to the Americas by Spanish Conquistadors. No word on when they get a photo shoot.
“ Women are absolutely indifferent to their genitals; they hardly know each other. Women do not talk to them, they do not give funny nicknames to them and they never get angry with them.
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Thirteen terribly weird facts about women - Pravda.Ru
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A “typographical error” resulted in the recall of student T-shirts at Linda Vista Elementary School’s recent jog-a-thon, after a parent called the phone number printed on the back of the shirts and was connected to an adult chat line
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The number was written as a cute slogan for the jog-a-thon, but turned out to be an actual number, said Rosemary Gladden, public information officer for Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District.
Linda Vista PTA is not the first group to make a mistake with that exact spoof number. The two word 800 number shows up online as part of a popular running slogan sold on T-shirts and merchandise.
But a Google search for the 1-800 number on its own returns news articles and blogs about schools in Ohio and Iowa that made the same mistake.
The 1-800 number goes to a she-male sex phone line.
Now I am very curious about what the number actually was. It’s like a new millenium logic puzzle: “For ten points, what is a 7 seven number sequence that when matched with the letters on a standard phone keypad spells out both a play on a popular running slogan (at the humor level of a surburban elementary school t-shirt) and reference to she-male sex. Show your work.”
Porn phone accidentally printed on school shirts OCRegister.com
Jackie Robinson, age 10, batboy for the 1929 Pasadena Buicks.
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“ Someone to whom I recently showed my glass beehive, with its movement like the main gear wheel of a clock - Someone who saw the constant agitation of the honeycomb, the mysterious maddened commotion of the nurse bees over the nest, the teeming bridges and stairways of wax, the invading spiral of the queen, the endlessly varied and repetitive labors of the swarm, the relentless and ineffectual toil, the fevered comings and goings, the call to sleep always ignored, undermining the next days work, the final repose of death, far from a place that tolerates neither sickness nor tombs - Someone who observed these things, after the initial astonishment had passed, quickly looked away with an expression of indescribable sadness and horror.
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Víctor Erice, Ángel Fernández Santos, and Francisco J. Querejeta, The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), 1973
Víctor Erice, Ángel Fernández Santos, and Francisco J. Querejeta, The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), 1973
