{"id":125,"date":"2005-06-24T06:24:18","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T13:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/06\/24\/family-and-friends-2-2-four\/"},"modified":"2006-05-27T09:11:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T16:11:34","slug":"family-and-friends-2-2-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/06\/24\/family-and-friends-2-2-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Family and Friends 2 + 2 = Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com\/bookdetail.asp?book_id=4013\">Carrie Yang Costello&#8217;s book<\/a> is due next December.  She is my super smart high achieving daughter in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/\">law<\/a>.  You met her daughter Nina before.  Carrie&#8217;s book may very well explain why I am a closet grandmother.  (I posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/03\/06\/japanese-grandmothers-cynthia-kadohata-miwa-yanagi-and-yukio-mishima\/\">Japanese Grandmothers <\/a>a while ago. )  This subject is too complicated to explain in this post. Women I know will surely appreciate the research Carrie is doing. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/James.jpg\" alt=\"Fung Ching Kelling\" \/><br \/>\nJames &#8211; Chine Colle by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/11\/20\/paintings-fung-ching-kelling\/\">Fung Ching Kelling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My sister who is a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/11\/20\/paintings-fung-ching-kelling\/\">painter\/printmaker and a collagist<\/a> made the above image.  She lives in Honolulu, frequently exhibits in Honolulu and Tokyo.<br \/>\nFung-Ching and Fung-Lin, we are two Chinese sisters from Tokyo, Japan.  We did not keep our maiden name &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/minutillo.com\/steve\/weblog\/2003\/10\/16\/26954\">Yang.<\/a> It somehow ended up in Carrie and Nina&#8217;s middle name.  Don&#8217;t ask me why.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/minutillo.com\/steve\/weblog\/2003\/10\/16\/26954\">Yang<\/a> means &#8211; Willow &#8211; poplar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msu.edu\/user\/chrenkal\/980\/JKRIST.HTM\">Julia Kristeva<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newalbion.com\/artists\/rileyt\/\">Terry Riley<\/a> share a birthday today on June 24.<br \/>\nHappy Birthday to Julia and Terry.<br \/>\nJulia&#8217;s book cover was used in my web art &#8211; Tristana &#8211;<br \/>\nClick on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/post_me\/town.htm\">Toledo<\/a> and see her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/post_me\/oo.htm\">Black Sun<\/a>.   I am not qualified to talk about her theories but I simply love the sound of her name.<br \/>\nSome links for Julia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foucault.qut.edu.au\/kristeva.html\">here<\/a>, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/agauche.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/kristeva-intimate-revolt.html\">here from A Gauche.<\/a><br \/>\nRe: <a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/gst\/movies\/movie.html?v_id=26714\">Julia<\/a><br \/>\nJulia Child, Julia Roberts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longitudebooks.com\/find\/p\/51614\/mcms.html\">aunt Julia and a scriptwriter<\/a> and Annette Benning trying to be Julia &#8211; but this Julia from Bulgaria is different, a seductive, authoritative and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drizzle.com\/~tmercer\/write\/kristeva\/kristeva.shtml\">frustrating <\/a> intellectual.  (Found one more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtyolive.net\/archives\/000212.html\"> frustrated reader, Dirty Olive<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newalbion.com\/artists\/rileyt\">Terry&#8217;s music <\/a>today.<br \/>\nMany wonderful tracks are in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terryriley.com\/audio.htm\">this page.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to announce that Carrie Yang Costello&#8217;s book is due next December. She is my super smart high achieving daughter in law. You met her daughter Nina before. Carrie&#8217;s book may very well explain why I am a closet grandmother. (I posted on the Japanese Grandmothers a while ago. ) This subject is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/06\/24\/family-and-friends-2-2-four\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Family and Friends 2 + 2 = Four&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,1,15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-culture","category-music","category-philosophypsychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}