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[yamamanama]

Emma couldn't be there, alas. I didn't get the message that she wasn't sure if she'd be able to make it but thanks for inviting her until I got home (I don't have a smartphone. Mine works fine to make calls and that's what phones are for) See the burning question.

I met a (young) woman with silver-dyed hair and a floral-print ribbon in it and she says people often think they hear an accent somewhere in her voice on the Red Line and a woman who wrote essays and read Kafka (I've been meaning to, I swear) and was going to the Gardner Museum for the first time. We discussed Kafka and Marquez and Pynchon, because I have a collection of Kafka stories I've been meaning to read for about 12 years now. Knight Moves, however, I picked up knowing nothing about it aside from the fact that I've enjoyed Walter Jon Williams in the past. 50 pages in and I feel like the "knight moves" specifically refers to the way knights can pass through other pieces on a chess board. We discussed how I could never finish a story even though I have these cool ideas. October 13 was not her birthday and it's not my birthday either so wish both of us a very merry unbirthday!

Shinique Smith likes butterflies.
I told some people to plant some milkweed because the monarchs will like it. The good kind of monarchs, not the Arab monarchs.

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(all the links are broken because back in the days when I wrote this post, there was more permanence)
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Parade
one guy thought of piñatas.


No Key


The Power to See


Breath & Line
(please note that ampersands are not preserved in urls so I was confused when I didn't find shit for "breath line." Well, not that confused,)
Christina (death seraph) would like this; the grafitti is lines from the poem Desiderata.


Splendid


The Step and the Walk


Of A Particular Perfume


Belly Button Window


Seven Moons


Majesty


With Wings Newly Made Of Water

They reminded me of Chitra Ganesh.
One woman saw a face in this one, hair and shoulders.

one thing reminded me of Georgia O'Keefe clitoria pea flowers with Kandinsky's palette.

http://images.jamescohan.com/www_jamescohan_com/FINCH_Shield_of_Achilles_Dawn_Troy_102702_2013_JCG6426_01_0.jpg
Shield of Achilles.

http://www.curatedobject.us/.a/6a00e54f9f8f8c88340148c748e2c1970c
People say of modern art "I can totally do this." and the truth is "No, I really can't."


This reminded her not of a giant snake skin but marshmallow fluff or the white stuff on the inside of a pomegranate. The stuff that should be edible but isn't.

I love the way the Execution of Maximilian contrasts with the neo-classical realistic art in the rest of the room.

I did see Gabriella, when she was going to see the Goya exhibit and when I was going to see Jenny D and the Deelinquents, which is like a 60s girl group with layers of punk.
I told her La Traviata is worth seeing, and she invited me to see The Consul on the 29th, and hopefully I'll be able to go but if I can't she said weeknights are always hard.

I'll probably say this to Gabriella at some point: Goya was ahead of his time.

http://www.eeweems.com/goya/viejas.html
this one here really stood out.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/GOYA_-_El_aquelarre_%28Museo_Lázaro_Galdiano%2C_Madrid%2C_1797-98%29.jpg
and this one.

Michael Swanwick wrote a collection of stories based on Goya etchings.
Read it here:
http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/swanwick/sleep_of_reason.html

A woman at Pita once barked at people when she was angry with them.

Burning question: have you ever thought your phone was ringing/vibrating when it wasn't? That happened to me five times, I swear.