Vitro Nasu

(Anton Sikharulidze & Elena Berezhnaya)

(Photo by Fung Lin Hall)

(それ お 送る – Send it)
(Photo by Fung Lin Hall)

(Photo by Fung Lin Hall – Dec 31,2021)

Happy birthday Haruki Murakami (Jan 12, 1949)

My Poverty Shaped like a Cheescake (A short story by Murakami translated by PeterCat)

(Happy birthday John Lurie – December 14)

John Lurie’s father used to take him to fishing. John Lurie is a hard working, self taught artist in music, acting and in painting. Basquiat painted and slept at his place. Basquiat was a close friend that Lurie wrote a lot about in this memoir.
John Lurie is a world traveller.
He wrote about Africa, one of many places Lurie visited. He wrote.
“I had been depressed for a long, long time. I could not get out of it. Africa saved me. You can feel life started there.

More paintings at his Gallery with great soundtrack from John Lurie’s Strange and Beautiful homepage

Strange and Beautiful John Lurie (previous post)

Listen to his playing here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_864xjMQY8)

John Lurie: ‘I wanted to break into Martha Stewart’s house and change the curtains. My lawyer said no’
(He’s hung out with Warhol and gone ice fishing with Willem Dafoe, but the Fishing With John man’s new series stars just him and his canvas)

(A man, a bull and of course, the Soldier Bunnies. – John Lurie)

(2 dogs, 2 dead cameras and some colorful empty bottles)

Chipmunk

Photos by Fung Lin Hall

George Carlin (See three videos here)

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. George Carlin)

Dorothy Hodgkin (Previous post – Dorothy was born on May 12, 1910

Florence Nightingale click to see large
Florence Nightingale 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910 was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

(photos by Fung Lin Hall)

Chorus of Chairs

Mad Tea Party

Maria Callas and the red Chair

Elephant, & Dragon Chairs

See Elegant chairs (scroll down)

Specters of Noon

Happy Metal Ox

Celebrations around the world in pictures (The Guardian)

(via)

The year of the Ox 2009

With a friend

Ox wiki

Aloha Bernie Sanders. He was in Honolulu.
About the Mittens.

The mittens were created by Vermont teacher Jane Ellis. Ellis made the mittens from repurposed wool sweaters and lined them with fleece from recycled plastic bottles.

Naomi Klein from Intercept

The Meaning of the Mittens: Five Possibilities

(Bernie levitating at Guggenheim Museum in New York)
See more Bernie Sanders art history memes here

(Bernie in Kyoto)

Bernie was in Japan directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Ikiru
Thanks to Sachin Shrijith

(Bernie in Tijuanna, Mexico )

Bernie in Budapest

Bernie Sanders in Burlington (see more photos and links from here)
Bernie and Allen

(Here is Bernie Sanders in front of my house)

Tree

Soviet Santa (How Santa Survived the Soviet Era)

Edgard Varese, Frank Zappa Connection
Frank Zappa – Birth date, December 21
Edard Varese – Birth date, December 22

See Marilyn as a streetwalker with Charles Laughton

Lockdown – Coronavirus

Taylor Mead

My Arm for a pillow
I really like myself
Under the hazy mooon

Yosa Buson

Translated by Robert Hass

(Senior Trip)

The Tyranny of Chair Design

Most chairs aren’t designed to serve human bodies – but a better seat is possible. By Sara Hendren

Tony Cragg <>

Tom Friedman
– his school chair, drilled into skeletal oblivion.

Chorus of Chairs

See a Dragon Chair sold for 28 Millions by Eileen Gray.

The unique and remarkable ‘Dragons’ armchair was acquired from Miss Gray by Suzanne Talbot, the first patron to provide her with an opportunity to create a complete environment. The exotic, symbolist character of the piece situates it conceptually within the first phase of Miss Gray’s creative cycle.
The Mad Tea Party (previous post)

Two chair design by Scott Burton

Elephant Chairs collection

Lugar Column 2016
Artists from Brazil

My photos of New Mexico Las Vegas Hotel Lobby –

(Ikea – photo by Fung Lin Hall)
Weather and Warehouse

John Cage sitting on a silent chair

The Repetition – Retribution

Edward Gorey loved cat and Balanchine (previous post)

The Cop and Peter Cook the Comic Genius

Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing archive here.

Herman
and the Cat.. another photo from writing & the feline muse.

Herman Hesse – The Glass Bead Game

Yuichi Hibi – Neco

Kay Ryan
A CAT/A FUTURE

A cat can draw
the blinds
behind her eyes
whenever she
decides. Nothing
alters in the stare
itself but she’s
not there. Likewise
a future can occlude:
still sitting there,
doing nothing rude.

Patricia Highsmith (archive)

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Samuel Beckett Archive

Louisa Chase