Goodies!
A package arrived from Stacy today, a belated birthday present, containing two books. One is Bad Press: the Worst Critical Reviews Ever!, edited by Laura Ward. Here are a few samples. "The last part of it is the dirtiest, most indecent, most obscene thing ever written. Yes it is, Frieda . . . it is filthy. (D.H. Lawrence on James Joyce's Ulysses) "The kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours you look at your watch and it says 6:20." (David Randolph on Wagner's Parsifal) "When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them." (Kenneth Tynan on Ionesco's Victims of Duty)
The other is the absolutely stunning Portrait: The Photographs of George Platt Lynes, 1927 - 1955, gorgeous black-and-white photographs of people such as Lotte Lenya, every inch the jolie laide, Christopher Isherwood as Herr Issyvoo, Colette, Aaron Copland, and a variety of much less well-known lovely young men looking soulful. Yummy.
Accompanying the books was a card, on the front of which was a photograph of Dubya and the phrase "Happy Birthday from the Most Powerful Man in the Free World!" Inside, it said, "If this doesn't scare you, another birthday shouldn't bother you at all!" Signed by Stacy with the words "Impeach! Impeach!" and some other rude remarks about the present occupant of the WH.
We finally got rain today. Ricky, Tom and I went to lunch and just as we were leaving the restaurant, the skies darkened, the heavens opened, and it poured! It lightened up a bit just as we got back to the office, but it rained a bit more on my drive home, and came down fairly heavily an hour or so again. I do hope some of it was able to sink into the ground. We certainly needed it.
The other is the absolutely stunning Portrait: The Photographs of George Platt Lynes, 1927 - 1955, gorgeous black-and-white photographs of people such as Lotte Lenya, every inch the jolie laide, Christopher Isherwood as Herr Issyvoo, Colette, Aaron Copland, and a variety of much less well-known lovely young men looking soulful. Yummy.
Accompanying the books was a card, on the front of which was a photograph of Dubya and the phrase "Happy Birthday from the Most Powerful Man in the Free World!" Inside, it said, "If this doesn't scare you, another birthday shouldn't bother you at all!" Signed by Stacy with the words "Impeach! Impeach!" and some other rude remarks about the present occupant of the WH.
We finally got rain today. Ricky, Tom and I went to lunch and just as we were leaving the restaurant, the skies darkened, the heavens opened, and it poured! It lightened up a bit just as we got back to the office, but it rained a bit more on my drive home, and came down fairly heavily an hour or so again. I do hope some of it was able to sink into the ground. We certainly needed it.