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The Power Plant
Reflecting on a Summer Day
By: - Jan 18th, 2016Recalling wonderful drives through Canada. Memories of visiting The Power Plant in Toronto.,
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Elvis
Lips in Defilade
By: - Jan 18th, 2016Pictures in an exhibition. For a 2001 exhibition at Suffolk University my colleague, Professor Fred Marchant, was inspired to write this poem about my photo collage Elvis The King.
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iii Scotch Tape, Oh
Variations on Vietnam Memorials
By: - Jan 17th, 2016This is the third of three poems that friend and colleague professor Fred Marchant wrote on the occasion of my exhibition of photo-collages for the gallery of New England School of Art & Design/ Suffolk University. In Washington, D.C. there are three Vietnam memorials. Here he describes the more conventional one of soldiers in bronze looking across at Maya Lin's wall of names. A print of the second image that conflates the Lin wall with the Rosetta Stone surrounded by a funerary wreath hangs in the office of the English department of Suffolk University.
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Lion King
Last of the Buffalo
By: - Jan 17th, 2016In ancient Mesopotamia, then and now, kings and rulers slaughter man and beasts. As it was on the Great Plains when westward expansion and the American genocide pushed buffalo and their hunters to near extinction.
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Sharon's Hedge
Out iof Control
By: - Jan 16th, 2016When an intoxicated driver wiped out Sharon's hedge.
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Brand Name
Cup of Joe in Bologna
By: - Jan 16th, 2016In Bologna they come and go speaking of Michelangelo.
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Mea Culpa
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Indian Soap
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Revenant
One for the Ages
By: - Jan 14th, 2016What's left when a great director extracts the heart and soul of an actor through a stunning performance? Brando was never the same after Last Tango. Is there any gas in the tank for DiCaprio after being mauled and mangled in the stunning epic The Revenant?
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Requiem
For a Heavy Weight
By: - Jan 14th, 2016What's left of an actor when a great director extracts the performance of a lifetime from an actor. Brando was never the same after Last Tango in Paris. Now we wonder if there is anything left in the tank of Leonardo DiCaprio who was mauled not just by the bear but the director as well in the masterpiece Revenant.
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Requiem
For a Heavy Weight
By: - Jan 14th, 2016Life is a journey which we begin and end alone.
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OMG
Ch ch ch changes
By: - Jan 13th, 2016In Macbeth Shakespeare wrote 'Nothing in his life became him like the ending of it." With a final work Lazarus the ever morphing Bowie slipped gracefully into the cosmos.
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Blinding Blizzard
Pre Dawn Surgery
By: - Jan 10th, 2016First couple of years an East Boston landlord. Told Astrid she would move in when Serbian tenants from hell completed lease that summer. They skipped mid winter. The first floor was all her's. We shared the other two. For awhile I charged a right reasonable rent. She refused after we were engaged.
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Elvis in London
Frigid Spring Break
By: - Jan 08th, 2016Mid March spring break in London proved to be brisk and cold. But that didn't daunt half naked club kids in Piccadilly where the spirit of Elvis loomed large.
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Limoncello
Taste of Sorrento
By: - Jan 07th, 2016With shaded groves they grow gigantic lemons in Sorrento.
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Shanghai Dawn
First View of China
By: - Jan 07th, 2016After a grueling day of travel from Boston we arrived exhausted in China. It had been a rough night but we were in for a surprise at first light.
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Obama's Emo
Tears for Carnage
By: - Jan 06th, 2016Revealing plans for an executive order to initiate efforts for gun control, blocked b a conservative Congress, President Obama choked up. He shed tears remembering slaughter of first graders and kids gunned down every day in Chicago. When will the nation face the reality that guns do kill people. Yes to second amendment rights for personal and home protection, recreation, hunting and sport. No to lack of controls putting weapons in the hands of gangs, criminals, terrorists and hate mongers. End the killing before it's too late.
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Gardens of Suzhou
Ancient Scholar's Groves
By: - Jan 05th, 2016From Shanghai we boarded a mobbed train to Suzhou. There we spent the day in ancient gardens designed by scholars as groves for meditation.
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Rocky Captivity
Michelangelo in Maine
By: - Jan 05th, 2016Pope Julius II, a Della Rovere, commissioned Michelangelo to create a massive tomb. In various states of finish he worked on the Slaves for its base. The project was abandoned and downsized when a Medici, Leo X, dispatched him to Florence to work on the Lorenzo and Giuliano tombs. Imagine our shock and surprise when we found his Slaves bound by giant boulders in Maine.
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Talking Heads
Dishing the Dirt
By: - Jan 04th, 2016Life at court. Affairs and diversions at the famous salon of Madam de Pompadour. Talking heads tumbled into baskets beneath the guillotine. Revenge for idle chatter while peasants starved. One might say just like today.
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Kinky Boots
Rough Trade on Mean Streets
By: - Jan 04th, 2016The rough trade of tranny street workers has made its way to Broadway with the musical Kinky Boots. It's entertainment for tourists. Or fodder for a fringe indy film like Tangerine. Here we take a walk on the wild side.
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Kid Talk
Don't Ask
By: - Jan 02nd, 2016At a dinner party a woman seated next to President Calvin Coolidge struck up a conversation. "Mr. President" she said "I have a bet with my friends that I can make you say more than three words." Turning to her Coolidge responded "Madam, you lose."
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Watson and the Shark
Reconfiguring Copley's Masterpiece
By: - Jan 01st, 2016Just before the Revolution the Boston artist, John Singleton Copley, sailed to London never to return. Soon after he arrived he was commissioned by Sir Brook Watson to depict his attack by a shark when he was a lad of fourteen. The painting caused a sensation when it was shown at the Royal Academy. The artist made an exact copy of his most famous and successful painting as well as a smaller version. Here the event is relocated to Boston Harbor.
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Chicken Little
When the Sky Really Is Falling
By: - Dec 31st, 2015Given the current rate of environmental disasters, a litmus of worse to come, how long do you give for life on earth?
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33rd Annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony
Created by Provincetown Artist Jay Critchley
By: - Dec 30th, 2015The brilliant conceptual art of Provincetown's Jay Critchley focuses on ecology, healing and recycling. An exquisite example of his social sculpture is the upcoming 33rd Annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony. As always it will be performed on the beach with a tree Valhalla on January 7. There will be traditional incantations, chanting, blessings and libations. A thermos of hot chocolate is strongly recommended.
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