This is the 4/1/09 post:
New book: An Island in Greece: On the shores of Skopelos by Michael Carroll. Should be good. Must preorder.
www.mtyci.com More than you can imagine
Ate two eggs with Ciabatta bread at 9:30 a.m.
Trivia: Peter Sellers was the first male on the cover of Playboy. The year was 1964.
Chronicle mentions a new documentary: Pocket Full of Soul - about the harmonica. Did you know that Abe Lincoln carried one in his pocket? Huey Lewis (just saying his name makes me smile) narrates. Yes, I do believe in love!
At left: from my walk.
Two sites: createspace.com and booksurge.com
Signed up for Looking at Art
Celiac Disease - common to western Europeans and some around the Med. Hmmm.
From a New Yorker article titled Sole Sisters -- High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the 1500s, the
riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privelege. The term well healed came to mean a man who could afford such extravagances.
Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll is coming to the Alley. Love his work.
virtue - interesting word today
trompe l'oeil - sounds like tromp louie - Webster says:
1. a style of painting in which objects are depicted with photographically realistic detail
2. a trope l'oeil painting or effect
3. something that misleads or deceives: illusion
Like that last one
Some artists to consider: Francis Picabia, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Ed Ruscha, Richard Prince -- all mentioned in another article
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros - celebrating 25 years
