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Martha Chokely
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Stranger Than
I Like to Watch
By: - Oct 24th, 2014I love TV. Friends brag about not owning one. They read.
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Smashing
Rejecting a Gift
By: - Oct 24th, 2014We never quite turn out as planned. A turning point came in a shocking encounter with the conceptual, collage and film artist Bruce Conner.
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1940
Cause for Ambivalent Celebration
By: - Oct 22nd, 2014Turning 74 in a couple of days is kindah a non celebration. Just short of 75 which is a biggie. Astrid bought me a bell and candle. Missing the book. Maybe next year.
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Hartley
Lost at Sea
By: - Oct 19th, 2014Marsden Hartley was among the most original and tragic of America's modernists. Today he is regarded as one of the finest artists of his generation. His life was one of constant struggle and adversity.
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Wright Stuff
Truman Blocked the View
By: - Oct 17th, 2014With several thousand dollars earned from designing Fallingwater between 1937 and 1959 Frank Lloyd Wright designed Taliesin West which was constructed by students and fellows. It was sited toward a magnificent view of Arizona mountains. Returning from Wisconsin for the winter season he was pissed to find power lines marring the horizon. He called the President.
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Volcano
To Hell and Back
By: - Oct 09th, 2014What's vivid to some is vague for others. Shared experiences iterated later as confused memories. Different responses to the fog of war.
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Cottage Industry
Anniversary Week on the Cape
By: - Oct 09th, 2014Celebrating twenty years with a week on the Cape. Exploring marshes steps from our Sandwich cottage. Barnstable for whale watch. Glass museum. Reading and writing. Glorious September weather.
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Fugio
Thoughts While Driving
By: - Oct 08th, 2014There are two poems that Arnie Reisman read at Katharine Cornell Theatre in Vineyard Haven as the Martha's Vineyard Poets Society swore him in as the Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate, 2014-2016. He is highly regarded as a journalist and thinker as well as a poet.
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The Only Miracles Back Up Smokey Robinson
On Smoke and Mirrors
By: - Oct 08th, 2014Here is another poem read recently by Arnie Reisman the Poet Laureate of Martha's Vineyard. He explores the consequences of faith in miracles.
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Critic
The Eyes Have It
By: - Oct 08th, 2014Back in the day the artist was present when briefly I viewed his show then thoroughly trashed it. Based on the brevity of observation he stated that I didn't adequately view the work. Challenged I described the works in detail. Still can decades later.
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Rahsaan
Mouth Full of Horns
By: - Oct 08th, 2014Roland Rahsaan Kirk could blow chords with three horns jammed into his mouth. I got blasted during dinner with Kirk and the band.
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We Like Some Things and Not Others
Why Is That
By: - Oct 07th, 2014Minds that give new meanings to being a responsible human being. As a migrant from growing up on an imagined Easter Island evokes encountering new ideas and possobilities.
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An Enemy of the People at Barrington Stage
Arthur Miller Adapted Henrik Ibsen
By: - Oct 06th, 2014Cleaning up toxic waste from the Housatonic River is a hot button issue for the Berkshires. Environmental pollution and efforts to repress that threat to the local economy is the focus of a powerful production of the Ibsen/ Miller play An Enemy of the People at Barrington Stage Company through October 19.
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Stones
With Hells Angels at the Garden
By: - Oct 05th, 2014Friday afternoon, 1969, proofing Show Guide Sunday page. Stones at the Garden coupon. Pulled extra proof. Great seats with a twist.
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Hendrix
Mustang Sally at the Cheetah
By: - Oct 04th, 2014Hanging out on Broadway at the Cheetah. Mega rock club in the 1960s. Curtis Knight and the Flames. Young guitar player then named Jimmy James.
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Cop Out
Newport Nights
By: - Oct 03rd, 2014There were great parties in mansions following concerts at the Newport Jazz Festival. Hooked up with Wild Strawberry and crashed in Nobby's room. Then things happened.
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Beggars
Democrats Down on their Knees
By: - Oct 03rd, 2014I get 20 e mails a day to Astrid's 100 plus. Democrats asking, pleading, begging, down on their knees. Races too close to call. The future of America on the line for coin.
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October
Frost Is on the Pumpkin
By: - Oct 01st, 2014A time to plant. A time to uproot that which is planted.
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Koch
All the Government That Money Can Buy
By: - Oct 01st, 2014E mail has been clogged with pleas, no begging. Democrats down on their knees for donations. With a few swoops of the pen Republicans trump with effortless $12 million to steal another election.
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Mississippi Fred McDowell
Afternoon Shots and Beers
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972) known by his stage name; Mississippi. He was loaned to me for the afternoon. With a note pinned to his chest with directions to his next destination.
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Captain Beefheart
Back of the Limo
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Warner Brothers promo man, Roger Lifeset, invited me to dinner with far out rocker Captain Beefheart and his wife Jan. We watched him crack into a three pound lobster. By the end of the evening he had glommed onto me as his personal Boswell.
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Joe Cocker
Getting High With Some Friends
By: - Sep 29th, 2014I grew up with Tim Crouse during summers in Annisquam. We shared an encounter in the men's room with British rocker Joe Cocker.
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Moondog
New York Street Music
By: - Sep 29th, 2014Born Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999) Moondog was blinded playing with a dynamite cap as a child.. The musician/ poet hung out for spare change not far from my gallery. We collaborated on a sold out gig. It kickstarted his recording career.
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Dancing Shoes
Well Heeled Uncle Bill
By: - Sep 29th, 2014My elegant Uncle Bill was a professor of Romance literature at Queens College. With Astrid we met each year for a holiday dinner. Estere talked about having his shoes resoled with rubber. But not these he told her.
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