Monday, September 19, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Evan Rachel Wood Got Tooth Knocked Out in Paris
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From TMZ
Evan Rachel Wood took a serious shot to the face last night [September 9, 2011] in Europe. The actress was hanging out with some friends in Paris. One of the dancers at the establishment got a little loose with the elbows -- and accidentally connected with Wood's mouth, knocking out a tooth ... and giving her one fat lip.
From TMZ
Evan Rachel Wood took a serious shot to the face last night [September 9, 2011] in Europe. The actress was hanging out with some friends in Paris. One of the dancers at the establishment got a little loose with the elbows -- and accidentally connected with Wood's mouth, knocking out a tooth ... and giving her one fat lip.
Reese Witherspoon Hit by Car While Jogging
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From Metro
The bruised and battered actress stepped out for the first time to reveal the black eye and an injury to her forehead. The Legally Blonde star, who has recently remarried, was taken to hospital [in Santa Monica] after the accident - where an 85-year-old woman ran her down after failing to give way to her at a pedestrian crossing.
A spokesman for the mother said at the time: 'The actress was not seriously injured and is resting comfortably at home.' After being left ‘really frightened’ by the event, the 35-year-old Oscar winner was all smiles when she turned up with a big pressie for a pal’s birthday in LA.
From Metro
The bruised and battered actress stepped out for the first time to reveal the black eye and an injury to her forehead. The Legally Blonde star, who has recently remarried, was taken to hospital [in Santa Monica] after the accident - where an 85-year-old woman ran her down after failing to give way to her at a pedestrian crossing.
Hotel Le Bleu Charges $2,000 to Hurricane Evacuees
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A trendy Brooklyn hotel generated a flood of cash from Irene, jacking up the price of a room to $999 a night on Saturday as the powerful storm zeroed in on New York, employees said.
Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth Ave. in Park Slope upped the rates from its typical $250 a night as people poured in looking for a dry place to rest.
"It was just because of high demand," said an employee, who would not give her name. "A lot of hotels did that."But about 10 blocks away, at the Fairfield Inn & Suites on Third Ave., the rates remained unchanged from the usual $240 a night.
Hotel Le Bleu on Fourth Ave. in Park Slope upped the rates from its typical $250 a night as people poured in looking for a dry place to rest.
"It was just because of high demand," said an employee, who would not give her name. "A lot of hotels did that."But about 10 blocks away, at the Fairfield Inn & Suites on Third Ave., the rates remained unchanged from the usual $240 a night.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Do Ho Suh's HOME WITHIN HOME @ Lehmann Maupin Gallery
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From LM
Home Within Home, by Do Ho Suh will present a series of works that reflect the artist’s ongoing exploration of themes surrounding cultural displacement and the co-existence of cultural identities, as well as the perception of our surroundings and how one constructs a memory of a space. Suh’s own feeling of displacement when he arrived in the U.S. in 1991 to study at RISD led him to measure spaces in order to establish relationships with his new surroundings. Years later, the artist developed the idea of taking these measurements and using them to replicate and transport spaces. Suh constructs these architectural spaces and the elements within them in various mediums including fabrics, resin, and Styrofoam. Among the works exhibited in this show will be Fallen Star 1/5, Home Within Home, and a series of fabric objects, all personally revealing works which invite viewers into his homes.
Do Ho Suh
Home Within Home
8 September – 22 October, 2011
540 West 26th Street
From LM
Home Within Home, by Do Ho Suh will present a series of works that reflect the artist’s ongoing exploration of themes surrounding cultural displacement and the co-existence of cultural identities, as well as the perception of our surroundings and how one constructs a memory of a space. Suh’s own feeling of displacement when he arrived in the U.S. in 1991 to study at RISD led him to measure spaces in order to establish relationships with his new surroundings. Years later, the artist developed the idea of taking these measurements and using them to replicate and transport spaces. Suh constructs these architectural spaces and the elements within them in various mediums including fabrics, resin, and Styrofoam. Among the works exhibited in this show will be Fallen Star 1/5, Home Within Home, and a series of fabric objects, all personally revealing works which invite viewers into his homes.
Do Ho Suh
Home Within Home
8 September – 22 October, 2011
540 West 26th Street
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
MY DYSLEXIA by Philip Schultz
An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disability. Despite winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the "dummy class" in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when his oldest son was diagnosed with dyslexia, did Schultz realize that he suffered from the same condition.
In his moving memoir, Schultz traces his difficult childhood and his new understanding of his early years. In doing so, he shows how a boy who did not learn to read until he was eleven went on to become a prize-winning poet by sheer force of determination. His balancing act—life as a member of a family with not one but two dyslexics, countered by his intellectual and creative successes as a writer—reveals an inspiring story of the strengths of the human mind.
Diamond Planet
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(Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.
The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.
Just what this weird diamond world is actually like close up, however, is a mystery.
"In terms of what it would look like, I don't know I could even speculate," said Ben Stappers of the University of Manchester. "I don't imagine that a picture of a very shiny object is what we're looking at here."
Monday, September 12, 2011
Ed Rollins Badmouths Rep. Michele Bachmann
From Mother Jones by Andy Kroll
Michele Bachmann obviously is a member of Congress and a representative of the tea party," Rollins told CNN viewers. "But at the end of the day, we have to get our serious players out front and talking about the things that matter to be the alternative to the president and Democrats." In other words, he did not consider Bachmann a "serious" GOP player.
Howard Dean, Iranian Group Lobbyist
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From Salon by JUSTIN ELLIOTT
Howard Dean has long cultivated an image as the plainspoken doctor who speaks for the left wing of the Democratic Party, a role he still plays as a pugnacious pundit on TV. But since his term as chairman of the Democratic National Committee ended in January 2009, Dr. Dean has taken on a less-noticed role: paid advocate for interest groups that would find few fans among the progressive voters once energized by Dean's 2004 presidential bid.
Dean is also currently one of the most prominent paid voices in a public-relations campaign on behalf of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), an obscure and controversial Iranian militant group that is aggressively lobbying the Obama administration to remove it from the official list of terrorist organizations.
Senator David Wants to Watch Football Not Obama
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From The Hill by Justin Sink and Peter Sullivan
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) might be attending President Obama's job speech after all. Vitter, who had previously said that he would be skipping the speech to attend a party to watch the New Orleans Saints' kickoff game, tweeted Thursday morning that Senate scheduling might force him to attend.
"Typical Harry Reid. He's now schdld votes that should’ve been this morn 4 right b4 & right AFTER prez's speech. Pens me in 2 have 2 stay. Reid ensured I'll miss my Saints party at home. Don't worry--only strengthens my Who Dat resolve. On 2 the Super Bowl! #ReidDirtyBirdsFan?" tweeted Vitter.
From The Hill by Justin Sink and Peter Sullivan
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) might be attending President Obama's job speech after all. Vitter, who had previously said that he would be skipping the speech to attend a party to watch the New Orleans Saints' kickoff game, tweeted Thursday morning that Senate scheduling might force him to attend.
"Typical Harry Reid. He's now schdld votes that should’ve been this morn 4 right b4 & right AFTER prez's speech. Pens me in 2 have 2 stay. Reid ensured I'll miss my Saints party at home. Don't worry--only strengthens my Who Dat resolve. On 2 the Super Bowl! #ReidDirtyBirdsFan?" tweeted Vitter.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
HIATUS
We're on hiatus until further notice. I'm working on the second draft of another novel and the 1st draft of a non-fiction book. My first novel, up to this point, has gone unsold, but I'm going to post it here soon. We'll be back, I'm estimating after the new year. Please use this time to browse the archives.
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