my cousin Regina is here for a week of opera.  so far we survivd a weak production of a silly Strauss but then were excitd by the glory of Luca Pisaroni as Maometto.

Chavela Vargas (1919-2012)

shelf

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

while cleaning house

I discoverd this portrait of Jim Hailey from a long-ago summer Stater.  I write abt him in the poem "Off Campus."

overheard

one teenager to another:


"I tried eating a whole raw potato"

Millenia Mail Art Project

Jim Provenzano maild me Tofu's project & I sent it on to Bree.

in Culver City

wearing my Bill E. Berger t-shirt for the first time

outside Geffen Playhouse

outside MOCA Geffen

back from LA

where my visit began by meeting Michael Alago at The Abbey:

I'm reading

at 5 today
at Antebellum Gallery
in Hollywood

I've never seen anything like it

a rabbit acting like a cat.  this bunny went back & forth on my back portal for several moments before plopping down. the pose was completely feline with hind legs sprawld. abt a 5 minute rest then a bit of grooming. finally up & sniffing posts. it jumpd off the portal to forage for food but quickly returnd to sit a bit. suddenly -- without notice -- it sprintd off toward the arroyo.

Bette Davis in 1989

I took this at the Beverly Hilton

& this at Tavern on the Green

visiting graves

as I postd on Facebook pix of me at the final resting places of the 3 characters in "Unfinishd Play" I suddenly rememberd this old photo.

Mom & I are visiting the grave of her parents in Lorain. this was a regular family activity. most often it was done on holidays.  I suspect this picture may have been on an Easter. but it certainly plantd in my young mind the idea of such visits & it's something I've always done.  

self portrait (1965)

the frontispiece for Gildzen at 50 is "Skins: left behind in the night." here is the source for that.  I took it for a photography class at Kent.

The Century Dimes

nature

I've enjoyd having rabbits in my yard.  until today when I discoverd one of them ate one of Aunt Sophie's trumpet vines that I transplantd from my parents' backyard in Elyria.

movie massacre

anytime a madman guns down multiple people it's a tragedy. but for someone who has spent so much time in a movie theater I'm feeling especially grieved at the unfolding of the Colorado story.