Monday, September 28, 2009
"Big Tree Room"
A house built around a large cedar tree. This house was built as a spectacle for tourists in 1847. Yosemite, CA.
Sublime Wonderlands
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest... in our magnificent National Parks – Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.—John Muir
Lana Turner Has Collapsed!
Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
Frank O'Hara, 1964
The Poet
The PoetA moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray:
They overleapt the horizon's edge,
Searched with Apollo's privilege;
Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,
Saw the dance of nature forward far;
Through worlds and races, and terms, and times,
Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like meteors, their way,
And rived the dark with private ray:
They overleapt the horizon's edge,
Searched with Apollo's privilege;
Through man, and woman, and sea, and star,
Saw the dance of nature forward far;
Through worlds and races, and terms, and times,
Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Second Series, 1844
"I absorb it all."
Walt Whitman
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Stalin Sleeps
Stalin lying in the House of Trade Unions"The Revolution Will Be Illustrated"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/books/review/Heller-t.html
Mime Melodrama
"When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leafto turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.
There's nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last."
— Frank O'Hara
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