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Peter Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995)
An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook was closely associated with anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.
See more photos of Peter Cook Funniest Man who ever drew breath
Stephen Fry on Peter Cook
You’re getting sleepier
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Inspired by Heisenberg (Digital image by Fung Lin Hall)
Green hirstutism – according to Lilyaradiaohead.
What quantum physics tells us about Walter White’s alter ego.
Happy Halloween
Wellfleet. Massachussetts
Patrick Morell –Golden Rabbit films LLC
Patrick’s #1 inspiration was Louis Malle’s most personal film, Phantom of India (Oct 30 was Louis Mall’s birthday).
See an inspirtional dance video from Phantom of India directed by Louis Malle.
Uummannaq. Western Greenland.
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Photo by Patrick Morell
Angel Island Speed shows by
Jurgen Trautwein
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Traces of Times Past:
Temporary space occupations @ Angel Island’s Fort McDowell’s East Garrison,
South–East shore, 37.86˚N 122.43˚W
News from the world –
List of Weird philosophers
Mark Young (poet) – something strange from Australia
Winterson on Oscar Wilde
Raising Cockroaches in China.
Jean Cocteau & 
Edith Piaf
Died on the same date..
Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died on the same day. Cocteau, chivalrous at the last, obeyed the rule of ladies first. “Ah, la Piaf est morte,” he said on the morning of October 11 1963. “Je peux mourir aussi.” [Ah, Piaf’s dead. I can die too.”] And then he promptly died of a heart attack. Or so legend has it.
It was Piaf’s funeral not Cocteau’s that brought Paris to gridlock.
Not from bad real estate foto 
The List of pair disappearing act
Shakepeare and Cervantes died (On the same day)
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died (On the same day)
Simone Beauvoir and Jean Genet died (1 day apart)
C.S Lewis and Aldous Huxley died (On the same day)
Jean Cocteau and Edith Piaf died (1 day apart).
Charlie Chaplin and Howard Hawks died (1 day apart)
James Stewart and Robert Mitchum died (1 day apart).
Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni (On the same day)
Dave Brubeck and Oscar Niemeyer died (On the same day)
Princess Diana and Mother Theresa died (6 days apart).
Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake committed suicide (One week apart)
Anthony Caro and Anthur Danto died (2 days apart)
Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard died (On the same day)
Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci (3 days apart)
Marlon Brando and Carl Malden died on July 1. (Karl Malden died years later on 2009)
Marlon sitting.
on Karl’s lap. (Click to enlarge)
10 Mar 1961, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA — “Climb upon my knee, sonny boy” might be actor Karl Malden’s theme song as he holds actor-director Marlon Brando on his lap. Brando, always the realist as actor or director, was showing Malden how he wanted him to play a love scene in
. The Paramount Film, a Western starring Brando, is the actor’s first directorial assignment. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Karl & Marlon 
and Mona Lisa
Lyrics by Ogden Nash (Aug 19 birthday) Music by Kurt Weil
The opening line is a (slight mis)quotation from William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (1600), where it is spoken by Don Pedro.
Frank McCourt – the Teacher Man 
(August 19, 1930 born in Brooklyn -Limerick childhood came later. )
“Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’t interfere with.”
― Frank McCourt, ‘Tis
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Poet’s father was Mao’s physician. (See Station – a great video)
Waley (Chinese: 衛利- 19 August 1889 ) was an English orientalist and sinologist. Translated Tao Te Ching. The I Ching..
Alain Robbe Grillet anti-roman author (Aug 19 birthday) directed Trans Europe Express (a stylish film – see on youtube)
R.I.P John Hollander Poet known for his range dies at 83
John Hollander, Poet at Ease With Intellectualism and Wit, Dies at 83
“His mind was singularly capacious, filled with baseball statistics, detective novels, mathematical formulas, vintage wines, German hymns, you name it,” Mr. McClatchy wrote. “It is said of a man like John Hollander that when he dies it is like the burning of the library at Alexandria.”
Previously…
Wiliam Lamson and Miranda July
Act Natural 
– This Moment Miranda
Sedaris says he was “completely, mysteriously shaken up” by July’s story when he first read it.
In 1917 Guillaume Apollinare first coined the word Surrealism in the program notes for the ballet Parade; partly reproduced here.
It was an extraordinary gathering of enormous talents with the set, curtain and costumes by Pablo Picasso (these pictures seldom seen and never published)The scenario was by Jean Cocteau; and the score by Erik Satie.
Collaboration with Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau (youtube)
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Paperware. (4 images here) by JTWine full body armor
selected images from the paper wear clothes line: shopping bags, color sheets & safety pins; posing in hat-masks, bibs, loin cloth, skirts and ties, 2003-2005, with Silvia Nonenmacher
Jurgen Trautwein NOW – (Jtwine blog)
Mike Kelley (many fabulous images from Contemporary Art Daily)
Dance from Tearoom 
Paper man (Oscar award winning animated short)
I didn’t get much sleep last night
thinking about underwear
Have you ever stopped to consider
underwear in the abstract
When you really dig into it
some shocking problems are raised
Underwear is something
we all have to deal with
Everyone wears
some kind of underwear
The Pope wears underwear I hope
The Governor of Louisiana
wears underwear
I saw him on TV
He must have had tight underwear
He squirmed a lot (excerpt from Poetry Foundation)
Happy birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
Photo by Elsa Dorfman
Lawrence as the statue of liberty
Pity thy Nation (youtube reading)
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Rebecca Horn 
Photo by Evelyn Hofer
Her birthday too.. (see previous post – the upside down Piano etc).
Concert for Anarchy
Rebecca Horn was born March 24, 1944, in Michelstadt, Germany. As a young girl, Horn read Johann Valentin Andreae’s Die chymische Hochzeit des Christian Rosenkreutz and Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus, which cultivated the artist’s interest in alchemy, Surrealist machines, and the absurd.
They write a long conceptual poem based on Christian Bök’s tweets
Suicide Pact you first
They sell you words
They interview the “totalitarian Buddhist” who has built “Magnasanti”
They create visual poetry by permuting four dark triangles
They build a fractal pyramid
They review “How to Write” by derek beaulieu
They design an online toy that lets you write prose-poems automatically in the style of a TED Talk (More Christian Bök’s tweets)
The True History of Pad Thai –
It’s the noodle that’s the most Thai, and at the same time, the least. Before the 1940s, Pad Thai didn’t exist as a common dish. Its birth and popularity came out of the nationalist campaign of Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram, one of the revolutionary figures who in 1932 pushed Thailand out of an absolute monarchy and into a Game of Thrones-style democracy, where coups and counter-coups have become the norm.It’s the noodle that’s the most Thai, and at the same time, the least. Before the 1940s, Pad Thai didn’t exist as a common dish. Its birth and popularity came out of the nationalist campaign of Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram, one of the revolutionary figures who in 1932 pushed Thailand out of an absolute monarchy and into a Game of Thrones-style democracy, where coups and counter-coups have become the norm.
The Noodle place : debt of pleasure (Hanif Kureishi on Tanizaki)
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(Sunrise Resort Ski Arizona Feb 18 photo by Fung Lin Hall)
No we did not eat Pad Thai while riding on the ski lift.
Moshi Moshi
Mori Satoh..森翔太 （撮影、編集、出演） filming, editing acting…(Mori is our new Iphone action hero)
David Shrigley 
David Shrigley Gong. (at Anton Kern Galler)
Kevin Cooley: Skyward at Pierogi Boiler Room
January 11 – February, 2013
Gaylen Gerber at Wallspace
January 12 – February 9, 2013
Horses think new web site..
25 December 1908 – Birthday of Quentin Crisp – – “Do not fade, do not whither, do not grow old” commands Queen Elizabeth I, played here—in an amusing but appropriate gender-bending twist—by Quentin Crisp. (via Reverseshot)
At the root of Crisp’s act was a kind of radicalism: Mocked and brutalized for his flamboyant effeminacy, he nonetheless chose to live, beginning in the London of the 1930s, “not merely as a self-confessed homosexual, but a self-evident one.” He tinted his hair lilac, wore eye shadow, pert scarves and silk blouses, and transformed himself into a walking, quipping objet d’art. It was this feat of defiant self-invention that eventually brought him celebrity. He wrote several wonderful books and at least one famous one, his 1968 memoir “The Naked Civil Servant.” But Quentin Crisp’s masterpiece was, emphatically, “Quentin Crisp.”
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Photo of Quentin Crisp by Paul Waldman
He lived on the same block as the NYC Hell’s Angels club house. He always answered his phone with “Oh yes!”
we became friends. He lived across 2nd Ave. on 3rd St. On the west side of 2nd Ave & 3rd is where Philip Glass lived. Quentin always said when he walked past the club house he’d lower his head in reverence. – Paul Waldman (via email)
English man in New York – John Hurt as Quentin
My Knitted Boyfriend is a cushion with a story. A cushion with a personality. A cushion to kiss! (See vimeo.. fun stuff) Design by Noortje De Keijzer.
Film still from The Sweet Hereafter.. (Trailer – directed by Atom Egoyan)
Jerry Nelson the man behind “The Count” passed away on Aug 23.
Jerry Nelson Puppeteer – Family Photo
Nelson played ‘Count von Count’ (aka the ‘Count’ seen here) on Sesame Street from the 1970’s through his retirement in 2004, but also was the first to perform Mr. Snuffleupagus. Other roles include Gobo Fraggle (my personal favorite) and Marjory the Trash Heap from Fraggle Rock, and multiple characters from the Muppets including Sgt. Floyd Pepper of the Electric Mayhem band, Dr. Julius Strangepork, Kermit’s nephew Robin, and Gonzo’s girlfriend Camilla the Chicken.
Mr. Nelson had a gift with puppets that helped shape generations of viewers. He learned to puppeteer under Bill Baird, the creator of the “Lonely Goatherd” marionette scene in The Sound of Music. Jerry was born on July 10th 1934 in Tulsa Oklahoma and died August 23rd, 2012.
NYtimes obit for Phyllis Diller
She liked jokes that piled on the laughs in rapid succession. A favorite of hers was this one: “I realized on our first wedding anniversary that our marriage was in trouble. Fang gave me luggage. It was packed. My mother damn near suffocated!”
She had six children from her marriage to her first husband (via wiki)
