Michelangelost™
…German Modernism and Errata
Emancipator
After being “back” for only a week I find I am already struggling a bit to remain in the cocoon of wellbeing spun by having been “home” the week previous…so I decided to quickly tell a couple highlights of my adventure in the interest of hanging on, at least in words....
Marienkapelle, Marienplatz, Würzburg
Matter of Fact It’s All Dark
Since the actual original bike accident on 1 May 2011, I have been under full anesthesia for more than 25 hours. That is a lot. I had extreme misgivings about this last surgery, now 10 days ago. I have not been in a very good mood, and there is a lot of stuff that...
Apollinaire in Germany
Apollinaire was very popular in Bonn and in Berlin, where he befriended Herwarth Walden, who, among other things, occupied a societal role similar to that of Apollinaire. Apollinaire also wrote and drew quite prolifically, of course, in addition to being a...
Downtown Tampa “Bridge Lighting / Agua Luces”
I was trying to think of the most hyperbolic way possible to describe the failure of the vague downtown Tampa "bridge lighting" from this past Friday (10 August 2012) but I can't really think of anything that describes the...
What it costs to be happy
Le lendemain revint le petit prince. - Il eût mieux valu revenir à la même heure, dit le renard. Si tu viens, par exemple, à quatre heures de l'après-midi, dès trois heures je commencerai d'être heureux. Plus l'heure avancera, plus je me sentirai heureux. A quatre...
Division Day Colorguard
Rather unexpectedly I stayed with a friend in NYC this week, near 3rd and 94th on the Upper Eastside, right by my cousin's place at 86th and Lexington... (I shouldn't say "unexpectedly" because...
Go Baby Go!
I'll always remember this week of June 2012 ... well, actually I probably won't remember anything since I've been awake for, like, five days. But we did have a cool tropical storm linger over the Bay Area...
The Wilhelmine Insurgency
The Wilhelmine Insurgency Franz Marc’s metaphysical visions were never far from him, occurring in “Two Paintings” in the confident statement, “What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.”[1] This sentence is in several respects characteristic not only of...
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