Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Rudy Burckhardt
and Edwin Denby, CH2-5097
Related reading and viewing
“[A]s Edwin Denby would / write” (on lines in a Frank O’Hara poem)
“The Climate of New York” (Burckhardt–Denby collaboration)
Feature: Edwin Denby (Jacket 21)
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Michael Leddy
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Helen Cornell, FL7-7653-J
[If I had an address on Utopia Parkway, I wouldn’t move either. If I had a J at the end of my number, I would wonder what it meant.]
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Michael Leddy
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8:04 AM
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Coleman Hawkins, ED4-2697
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Michael Leddy
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8:00 AM
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Dwight Macdonald, GR3-0835
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Michael Leddy
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7:59 AM
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Thomas Merton, CH2-0476
But I have made one find. In 1939 and 1940, Thomas Merton, then a graduate student, lived in Greenwich Village at 35 Perry Street. And he had a phone. By September 1940 he was living at St. Bonaventure University. In December 1941 he left for the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky.
A related post
Thomas Merton and a snapshot
[The Perry Street address is well known to readers of Merton’s work. By the way: you don’t have to be Catholic or Christian or even a theist to love Thomas Merton.]
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Michael Leddy
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Billy Wilder in an Eames chair
Related reading
All Eames-related posts (via Pinboard)
Elizabeth Taylor (a Peter Stackpole photograph)
Olivetti showroom (a Peter Stackpole photograph)
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Michael Leddy
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9:20 AM
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Monday, April 2, 2012
No longer avoiding CAPTCHA
I’ve had to turn word-verification for comments again: too many spam comments, and just looking at them reminds me of vast stretches of the Internets I’d rather avoid.
If a CAPTCHA is difficult to work out, enlarging it with Command-+ or Control-+ can make it more readable. I think though that Blogger’s new CAPTCHAs have become more readable than they were at first. (Tell me if I’m right, or wrong.)
A related post
Avoiding CAPTCHA
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Michael Leddy
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Welcome to college
Or some people’s idea of college: Inside Dartmouth’s Hazing Abuses (Rolling Stone).
[Don’t read it on a full stomach.]
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Michael Leddy
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8:47 AM
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Blackwing Q. and A.
The best friend the Blackwing pencil has ever had considers facts, fiction, and the “Blackwing Experience.”
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Michael Leddy
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8:37 AM
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
National Poetry Month
Hey, everybody, it’s April, National Poetry Month. The Academy of American Poets’ FAQ explains that April was chosen because it “seemed the best time within the year to turn attention toward the art of poetry.” I wish there were more to it than that, but the choice of April appears to be unrelated to Geoffrey Chaucer (“Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote”) or T.S. Eliot (“the cruellest month”). To choose April without even acknowledging these poets’ contrary representations of the month (which after all might remind us of the great variety of perspectives on reality that poems afford) seems an odd gesture indeed.
I also wish that the representation of Poetry on this poster were less — what? precious? sentimental? greeting-card-like? If you cannot make the words out, they read: “. . . wait on the wind, catch a sense of salt, call it our life.” Okay, I will do that. You can find the words in context here, forming the last line of Philip Levine’s poem “Our Valley.”
This post is for my friend Sara, who too will be exasperated.
[“The best time within the year”: within as opposed to what? Why not “the best time of year”? I saw a signboard outside a thrift store yesterday proclaiming March National Poetry Month, but that must have been an April Fools’ joke.]
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Michael Leddy
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10:49 AM
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