This was on the ABC Nightly News today.... very touching, really, to see an icon pass on. I can't help wondering if her hand/arm position was a secret message....
Your blog has added so much to my year in 2010. Many thanks!
I love propaganda posters. One of my favorites was also from World War II, from a neutral country to boot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_svensk_tiger
BTW, I bought T-shirt in Sweden some years back that is a send-up of the "En Svensk Tiger" poster, featuring an angry-looking moose with blue and yellow tiger stripes.
“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. “Orange Crate Art” is for me one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.”
Don’t look for premiums or coupons, as the cost of the thoughts blended in ORANGE CRATE ART pro- hibits the use of them.
Comments are welcome, appended to posts or by e-mail.
And please, wear a mask and socially distance, as I’m doing in the photograph above. Or better: wear two masks, as I’m now doing. #Masks4All
Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J. D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
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This was on the ABC Nightly News today.... very touching, really, to see an icon pass on. I can't help wondering if her hand/arm position was a secret message....
Your blog has added so much to my year in 2010. Many thanks!
And looking forward to more...
As a Brooklyn kid, I am familiar with the secret message in question. :)
Thanks for your kind appreciation, Elaine. There should be lots more Orange Crate Art to come.
Pink does a Doyle vignette in the video for her Raise a Glass anthem. Pink has the muscles for real.
Thanks, fboness. I probably would never have known about it save for your comment.
For anyone who wants to see the video, it’s here.
I love propaganda posters. One of my favorites was also from World War II, from a neutral country to boot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_svensk_tiger
What a cute tiger, like something from a children’s book.
BTW, I bought T-shirt in Sweden some years back that is a send-up of the "En Svensk Tiger" poster, featuring an angry-looking moose with blue and yellow tiger stripes.
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