Reid sent this optimistic press release on a promising new one- dose treatment for malaria, which brought back vivid memories of my brush with an almost- lethal case of Zimbabwe falciparum in the nineties. The writer remembers: “I have personally had malaria… and can say that it is a deeply painful and depleting experience that …
Month: August 2012
The Story of Photography
This fellow’s post is actually about faux finishes, but his description at the end of the way things used to be made me laugh: “I have almost no pictures of my work from back then. I tell my children that you used to have to buy a reel of plastic film covered with metallic goo …
Shiri Photos
Far Away and Long Ago
Me “teaching” at Wildbranch Writing Workshop, Sterling College, in Craftsbury Common, Vermont; 1990- what? Dark(ish) hair anyway! Janisse Ray (right of me, black vest) and Kansas poet H C Palmer (balding head toward camera) needed little but encouragement…
Another dumb quote
From a review in the New Yorker for 27 August: “Buying a car, Grescoe writes “is the beginning of a spiral through selfishness, road rage, and anomie, one whose ultimate goal is the mall or the gated community”. Unless you, you know, live in the country. Do our coastal elites even “get” Upstate New York? …
Maybe…
Looking at one of these…
Spanish Pigeon Sport!
La Suelta: a female with a marked feather is turned out with a pack of gaudily- painted males, flying pouters of the “Modern Deportivo” breed, who are… a bit hyper- macho; examples below. The one who seduces her home wins- it takes days. Big money prizes, state involvement– Suelta madness!
Pigeon Art
More from Jose Morales y Serrano: Nude Woman with English Carrier:
“Lost” Gruber review…
Before Q Blog, I had a website, which vanished. I regretted the loss of only one piece, an essay and review of a work by Michael Gruber. Recently, reading him at his excellent website (link above) and commenting on him, I found a printed copy, which I will print here. Not only does it point …
Invincible Ignorance?
I hate to rant but (I can see everybody believes THAT)… Well, first Reid provoked me with this, knowing that it was like poking a stick at a hot rattlesnake. At first I just sputtered. “I can’t even debunk this– it is like Mary McCarthy’s famous remark on Lilian Hellman: “Every word she says is …