Plum Jade

Jeudi le 26 Mai a Montmartre

2011-06-01T17:06:00.000-07:00

Love this dress!

2011-03-12T13:14:00.001-08:00

Seems the link for the red dress has disappeared! Thanks readers! How to lock in a link?

Beaver, Tony, Brenda--John Andrews!

2011-02-24T06:00:00.001-08:00

I have put Tristram Shandy aside but finished Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust. The end reminds me of movies such as Dogville: relentlessly dark, with a handful of jabbing jest. Delicious.

Beauty is articulate.

2010-07-15T13:59:00.001-07:00

2010-05-31T19:19:00.000-07:00

Today I heard someone say "Make Yourself at Home" is better than "Avatar". They are such different endeavors, but the person was talking about the story, not the special effects. Although what I love about certain films is the photography itself--and isn't that special?

Films I wanna see: Any new Mamet.

2010-05-18T18:27:00.000-07:00

Film is animal

2010-05-18T17:22:00.000-07:00

Or boat-ish, with big animal sea-ness.

Love,

2010-04-08T10:03:00.000-07:00

-Coffee

-Watercoloring in the morning

-Newspaper in the salle de bain

-(and other forms of Solitude)

-Not thinking but watching

-Commuters, happy together

-Getting what you want

-Whatever it is you think Kay Ryan is "doing"

-Firsts: nearly all firsts

Morning on Blue Ridge

2009-08-15T20:42:00.000-07:00

Volunteer Gap. This is the inn at Volunteer Gap. We were the only ones there that night/morning.

Big Walker lookout

2009-08-15T20:39:00.000-07:00

Old AT trailhead.

Power Lines

2009-08-15T20:36:00.000-07:00

Between Turkey Gap and Big Walker Lookout (closer to Turkey Gap).

버섯

2009-08-15T20:24:00.000-07:00

mushrooms at Turkey Gap

2009-08-15T20:23:00.000-07:00

Back at the top of the ridge, with sun

2009-08-15T20:15:00.000-07:00

Meadow facing North (uphill)

2009-08-15T20:13:00.000-07:00

By the time we reached this meadow the sun out.

Meadow at Turkey Gap

2009-08-15T20:07:00.000-07:00

What is this, military?

2009-08-15T13:12:00.000-07:00

Right off that crosscutting trail.

Another mushroom

2009-08-15T13:11:00.000-07:00

Weird, huh?

Interior

2009-08-15T13:09:00.000-07:00

This path cuts through the middle, going West to East. To the left there you can see part of the military rock forts.

Spring?

2009-08-15T13:06:00.000-07:00

Starts it seemed from nowhere, off the road leading south, well before the southern reference monument.

Reference monument: SW corner.

2009-08-15T12:59:00.000-07:00

From road South road.

2009-08-15T12:57:00.000-07:00

Southwest corner.

2009-08-15T12:52:00.000-07:00

NW corner

2009-08-15T12:49:00.000-07:00

Soopum's heading down the road, which determines the "West slope".

Walking east, beyond NE corner (I think)

2009-08-15T12:47:00.000-07:00

Climbing to adjacent peak.

Northeast corner

2009-08-15T12:43:00.000-07:00

The little white plastic thingimagig inside the rocks is the "actual" corner.

Bearing tree (at Northeast corner)

2009-08-15T12:41:00.000-07:00

View from AT to South.

2009-08-15T12:38:00.000-07:00

This is the very top, still.

AT (northern boundary) pointing East

2009-08-15T12:36:00.000-07:00

To the right would be the Williams property.

AT trail pointing to the NW corner

2009-08-15T12:33:00.000-07:00

If you turn 180 degrees you'll follow the AT trail, which determines the northern boundary of the property, I think.

360 of the NW corner

2009-08-15T12:11:00.000-07:00

Car is at junction of AT and RG Turnpike. The now private road (in picture #2) goes down the Liton property, North.

These two 4 & 3) point South and East respectively.

This shot (right) is taken from the NW corner pointing Southwest (car would be to the right.)

NW corner

2009-08-15T12:08:00.000-07:00

The three trees in the middle are bearing trees and this represents the NW corner.

More Mushrooms

2009-08-15T12:06:00.001-07:00

Here's another picture of those mushrooms at Turkey Gap.

Turkey Gap

2009-08-15T11:54:00.000-07:00

There is a variety of fungi at Turkey Gap. In the wet especially they stick out as the one bright form. Need to find out if any are edible. And there is Soopum and the car is parked where the old AT meets the old RG Turnpike. Soopum is mostly trespassing here I think, but if he keeps walking in the direction he's walking (South,) he'll arrive to the property that was acquired, I think, by Samuel Williams (if I'm not mistaken!) way back when.

Davis to Stairs Col to Rocky Branch to Isolation to ...

2009-08-06T14:34:00.000-07:00

Interior

2007-08-20T12:18:00.001-07:00

Crawford Path

2007-08-20T12:13:00.000-07:00

2007-08-07T09:44:00.001-07:00

Lilya 4-Ever ("Volodya. Volodya. Volodya."); Shadows, or anything Cassavettes; To Have and Have Not ("Anybody got a match?"); Breakfast at Tiffany's ("Timber!"); Brown Bunny ("Please."); Henry Fool ("There are three types of Thayer in the English language.")

Lake Armington

2007-08-06T19:39:00.001-07:00

Lavender, Mint, Oregano, Nasturtium

2007-07-13T12:00:00.000-07:00

2007-07-13T08:59:00.000-07:00

2007-06-17T12:54:00.000-07:00

Funny Ha Ha

2007-05-26T19:39:00.000-07:00

Anyone know who that "Russian Scholar" is who makes commentary on the DVD Special Features of Bujalski's Funny Ha Ha? (Is it you, Svetlana?) So strange because the commentary lasts the length of the film and there's no credit for the speaker. A lot of it was hard to understand because of the strong Russian accent and the sound was poorly recorded. Also, on this DVD, which I rented from Netflix, the sound is not in synch for the movie. How weird, and unfortunate.

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2007-05-22T12:30:00.001-07:00

Francis Ford Coppola

2007-05-20T12:46:00.000-07:00

When he was little, Coppola asked his father, who was a composer, if he was the best composer who ever lived. His father said no, there was always Beethoven.

So then are you the worst composer?

No, there are really terrible composers out there who are worse than me.

Chinese Proverb

2007-05-06T13:14:00.000-07:00

"Every bird thinks his nest is best." I was eating shaolungpow (forgive my spelling,) the most scrumptious dumplings, EMBOLDENED with their own INNER SOUP and CRAB and PORK at the Grand Sezuan (forgive) on 24th st. and 9th ave... For a rack of 8 or so dumplings you pay 6.55, such a round figure. Two should do for two, three for three. Maybe one for one, but I always like to see those vessels in a stack, don't you? It reminds me of the steamy Hong Kong I've seen in movies. Incidentally, if anyone knows of a good noodle shop, where you go to get your take-home noodle, like the one in Wong Kar Wei's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, please tell me.

Star Craft

2007-04-25T19:04:00.000-07:00

"Destination: yes sir!"

Flesh

2007-04-25T18:55:00.000-07:00

The sea urchin at Grand Central Station's Oyster Bar.

Ef-fron-ter-y

2007-04-25T18:48:00.000-07:00

Detail of a painting by Jackson Pollock.

2007-03-28T15:49:00.000-07:00

2007-03-27T14:16:00.000-07:00

2007-03-27T12:35:00.000-07:00

Thomas Couture thought himself the best painter alive, better than all those "mere daubers"
[The History of Impressionism,
John Rewald,
24.]

2007-03-25T10:54:00.000-07:00

2007-03-25T10:48:00.000-07:00

2007-03-17T15:30:00.000-07:00

Zee dog

2007-03-17T11:41:00.000-07:00

Plum candy

2007-03-16T15:02:00.000-07:00

B-ball Dreams

2007-03-16T14:48:00.000-07:00

Say Cheese

2007-03-16T13:33:00.000-07:00

Touchables

2007-03-11T11:09:00.000-07:00

Kingdom of daylight's dauphin, what do these coffee grinds say?

Lovable Perversions: a sculpture series

2007-02-22T08:32:00.000-08:00

This series of lip sculptures (approx. one cubic inch each) is by Soyoung Sohn, the fine artist who lives in Germany.

Homemade

2007-02-21T04:20:00.000-08:00

I love garlic and this is its edible raw form for me. After pickling and sitting in soy sauce & sugar for a couple of months it still tastes like garlic but sweeter and cooler.

How to get out of bed & why

2007-02-06T14:58:00.000-08:00

Acupuncture (Lili Wu, Chelsea NY, 212-741-6674.) Needles in your ears, on your head, between your toes and between your index finger and thumb, and a hot stove hovering over your belly.

Extra Fancy

2007-01-31T14:06:00.000-08:00

"Beh" (Korean pear,) good for the heart. A must-eat for the empress.

Grandmother's Espresso Machine

2007-01-28T10:28:00.000-08:00

Meet my new coffee maker. I found it in my cabinet and fell in love when it actually works! What if I never ran out of coffee filters?

Ko Un

2007-01-04T10:44:00.000-08:00

Sometime during fall, The New Yorker printed Four Poems. I love

Frogs croaking in flooded paddies--
if there really is a world beyond,
echo far enough so my dead brother can hear.