May 31 08
Original Playbill to Oscar Wilde’s Salome (1891).
Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.
May 31 08
9. killing time.
i’m killing fifteen spare minutes before running off to shower and then to work. it appears that i may miss out on the toronto fc game this afternoon, given the timing of my shift at the restaurant, but there’s a chance i’ll catch the last half. this isn’t so bad, since david beckham [...]
May 30 08
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973).
Self-portrait with Cloak.
c. 1901, Paris.
Musée national Picasso.
(wiki Picasso) (wiki Blue Period) (Authority)
May 30 08
Captain Kirk, as portrayed by William Shatner (1931-).
Star Trek, The Original Series (1966-69). 1×14: “Balance of Terror”
(wiki Shatner)
May 29 08
Sandy Koufax, left-handed, Jewish pitcher for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1955-1966).
Sandy famously refused to pitch the first game of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur.
He also had a lifetime ERA of 2.76, which is a mean feat in and of itself.
(wiki)
May 29 08
Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
George Lucas and Philip Kaufman, writers; Steven Spielberg, director.
May 29 08
Francisco Goya (1746-1828).
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons.
Madrid Spain, c. 1821-23.
(wiki) (authority)
May 27 08
8. soccer in canada.
I’m sitting down watching the inaugural game of the first Nutrilite Canadian Champions’ League Cup (Canadian Soccer Championship?) match, between Toronto FC and The Montreal Impact (or is that L’impact de Montréal?) on CBC Bold. Actually, I’m watching the match on the cbc.ca/sports website. In order to really keep an [...]
May 26 08
7. shredded
another day, and another two pages. rock the solids. i don’t know what rock the solids mean, but the torontoist would suggest it’s something scatological. i’ll let the web-wide-world decide that one, i guess.
i spent the last two days shredding extraneaous matter. that’s a lie. no extraneous matter [...]
May 25 08
6. herbs and spice and everything nice.
it’s sunday evening. it’s getting late. i’m sitting in a re-arranged office. outside the office is the pineapples, sitting in a re-arranged living room. we shift furniture around faster than han solo can do the kessel run (under twelve parsecs) and more often than [...]