Elizabeth Taylor injures her ankle while she and husband Eddie Fisher walked out of a Philadelphia restaurant. The actress slipped on ice. Both were in town for a visit to Fisher’s mother
This happened at "Smylie's," a restaurant that stood next to the current Smylie Times Building. In 1968, Joseph J. Smylie tore down the restaurant and bought adjacent land to develop a five-story, 50,000-square-foot office building, the Smylie Times Building.
White Diamonds Bonus! A short jaunt from the Smylie Times Building, but only if you're time traveling or taking the Concord:
The Forgotten Space with an introduction by Allan Sekula Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Starts at 7:00 p.m. International House 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Free Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis. Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.
Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force." -Che Guevara
Merry Christmas to all! And on this holy day if anyone wants to share a Christmas miracle with me... the miracle of a working photoshop Cs5.1 serial number in my inbox... well, we all know the joy that sharing can bring!
January 28th, 2012 3PM Philadelphia Museum of Art Van Pelt Auditorium Free Admission to the talk.
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Steve Earle is a musician, a political activist, a writer, an actor and a national treasure. Mr. Earle's lastest album and novel are both titled, "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive."
Last night at about 2:30 AM I woke myself up laughing at something I was dreaming about, and then found that I WAS STILL WORKING ON THE COMPUTER, cropping the Pacific Ocean image IN MY SLEEP. Then as I was coming to, totally confused, I saw that Gandalf was in a haze of light talking to the hobbits before they sailed away from Middle Earth and managed to wake up enough to turn off the muted Lord of the Rings and get upstairs and in bed with my lady.
Side note- often I talk in my sleep and at times with increased stress or when I'm working overtime, this increases.
Here's a good example of my sleep talking:
Begin
ZS (asleep)- "I just decreased the font size" LB (awake)- "What?" ZS (asleep)- "I'm so glad you're not Pippa Middleton."
The Opening Dance Party for 10 Years begins at 8PM on Saturday, January 14, 2012. The museum is offering 100 free tickets for the dance party and you can grab one by RSVPing to the Museum, so call in first thing tomorrow if you can. RSVPs are required and this invitation is for one ticket only. Please call the Ticket Center: 215-235-SHOW (7469) and give them this super secret password: SUPERNOVA.
I have begun to move into insufferably selfish and myopic. I am only focused on my show, and this is at the expense of everything else in my life. Thank you for your patience and support, friends and family. Thank you especially to my immediate family. And thank you to my loving and supportive wife, without whom I'd be lost at sea. Or maybe just lost in Philadelphia. No matter what, it would be lost.
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Trying to force this to work at 15th and Girard. Nope, can't do it.
From the Fitzgerald Translation of The Odyssey by Homer
I fortune 314_9
II fortune 109_22
IV Fortune 97_56
V Fortune 441_137
XVII fortune 553_324
XIX Fortunes 370
XXI Fortune 404
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III they kept on to their journey’s end. Behind them the sun went down and all the roads grew dark 540-541_49
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Atlantic City Bruce Springsteen
Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night now they blew up his house too Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight gonna see what them racket boys can do
Now there's trouble busin' in from outta state and the D.A. can't get no relief Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade and the gamblin' commissions hangin' on by the skin of its teeth
Everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Well I got a job and tried to put my money away But I got in too deep and I could not pay So I drew what I had from the Central Trust And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus
Everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City
Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold but with you forever I'll stay We're goin' out where the sands turnin' to gold so put on your stockin's cause the nights gettin' cold and maybe everything dies That's a fact but maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Now I been lookin' for a job but it's hard to find Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line Well I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end So honey last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do a little favor for him
Well I guess everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City
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“Silence=Death,” ACT UP New York. Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archive Division.
