Priyanka Chopra at launch of Sonal Kalras Book

Priyanka Chopra at launch of Sonal Kalras Book. Gorgeous Priyanka Chopra in short pink skirt present at the launch of Sonal Kalras Book “A Calmer You”. Sonal Kalras is the editor of HT City, Delhi. Priyanka Chopra read out some excerpts from the book, after that she mention that, it was clear that this was a fun read, with humorous tips on how to handle stress in life, regardless of whichever profession one comes from. Priyanka Chopra Will be celebrating her birthday on July 18. So Priyanka,Wishing you happy birthday in advanced. Checkout Priyanka Chopra Pictures. More images after the break...

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First Haircut

Everybody is probably afraid of getting a bad haircut. But when you are an @dult, you can talk to your hairdresser and discuss your future hair style. But if you are a child and if this is your first haircut ever, you react differently. How? More images after the break...

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Megan Fox In Los Angeles

A few very eagle-eyed Megan Fox fans took notice of some pictures of Megan Fox that appeared on the ‘Net yesterday.She was out in Studio City with her husband and was wearing a green-colored “Voltron” t-shirt. Apparently, that T-shirt musta been mixed in with her Victoria’s Secret laundry because it belongs to her step-son, Kassius! WTF?!?  The pair were out for a romantic leisurely lunch 27-07-2010. More images after the break...

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Cargo — Fastest delivery

Specialists of the fastest delivery! They probably never heard of that product must be delivered intact. More images after the break...

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5 mistakes that may get your Resume trashed

In the current situation, it is very necessary for people to know the mistakes than can cost them an interview call. In an article published on Rediff, Kshpira Singh highlighted the five most common errors. These are outlined below:

A cluttered CV

CVs where people simply put all possible information and expect recruiters to scroll through them to find out relevant details. The only destiny these CVs have is getting the 'delete' key pressed and landing up in the trash bins.

HR people get hundreds of applications for a single position. They don't have the time to sift through your CV and see if each candidate suits their purpose. So, it is your job to make your CV as user-friendly, so that they can find the information they are looking for in a single glance. More after the break...

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Festival of Mud and Rock under Water

They say that every year in Denmark held a rock festival, which takes place in early July. But some years, rock fans have bad luck with the weather (or maybe good, depending on how you look: D). In the following images to see the wild was the rain, let tents while literally under water. But, as always, never missing people willing to have fun with the mud, fun often ends with scantily clad people (look at the girls in the last picture) and making ridiculous. More images after the break...

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Deceptive Beauty

Cutie? She looks pretty cute… But beware photographs and pretty pictures in social networks such as Facebook.

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Creative Pencil Sculptures

Artists who create beautiful artworks using pencils can’t surprise us nowadays. But Dalton Ghetti found a way how to create miniature masterpieces using pencils. He simply carved the alphabet on the tips of 26 pencils, making letters come alive. More images after the break...

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Zarine Khan late Photoshoot in Saree

Zarine Khan looking Glorious in Saree, More images after the break...

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Dancing skeleton — Video

Born On This Day- July 29th... Ice Capades Star- Dag Hammarskjöld

Born on this day- July 29th, The closeted Swede- Dag Hammarskjöld was a Renaissance man: a world class expert of economics, linguistics, literature, & history; an athlete in gymnastics, skiing, & mountaineering; & a bit of a theologian. Hammarskjöld has been credited with having coined the term "planned economy." Receiving 57 votes out of 60, Hammarskjöld was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953 for a 5 term & was reelected in 1957, greatly extending the influence of the United Nations as well as the prestige of the Secretary-General. He was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961.

Despite holding a position of public prominence as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in 1961, Hammarskjöld managed to keep secret even the most minor details of his personal life from the world. His published journal- Markings (translated to English by openly gay- W.H. Auden), stays away from any mention of his private life. Hammarskjöld was unable to accept his sexuality & lived an unhappy, frustrated life, suffering slurs from political figures & the international media. But though he couldn’t resolve his own internal conflicts, he was masterful at settling external conflicts as he worked to solve disputes in Palestine, Vietnam, Egypt, & the Congo.

The "IT GIRL" & The "Vamp" Share A Birthday... June 29th

Believe me, I know the pain & shame of a brilliant acting career cut down by sex scandals, men, drugs, drink & mental problems. My flame burned out all too soon. I was known briefly & in a select circle as the "IT guy". I was forgotten all too soon... but you can still re-live the magic with my work on Beta, VHS, & DVDs. Sometimes the world is not ready for the heat that we sex symbols produce. I have not been buried at Forest Lawn memorial Park.

In the 1920s, Clara Bow's energy & sex appeal defined the newly liberated woman of the flapper era. Clara Bow was Hollywood's brightest light during this time. Clara was known as the-"It Girl', & Clara Bow had "It". The people she worked with claimed that she was full of charm & wit, & a thorough professional..


Clara Bow was an actress of range & depth, but she played mostly manicurists, waitresses, & department store clerks. Her movies helped emancipate young American girls from the restrictive morals of their parents. Clara's characters were unashamed about being attracted to men. Her shop girl in It (1927) spies the boss’s son & says:"Oh Santa, gimme him!" Her characters wore their dresses short, cut off their hair, drank & smoked in public, & danced all night long. At the height of her career, she received 45,000 fan letters a week. She was the idol of working girls & the dream of blue collar guys.


The "It" Girl was so hot & bright, it seems inevitable that she would burn out personally & professionally. It is shocking to think that her career was over in 1933 at 26 years old, after she had made millions for her studio- Paramount, & was one of the most well known stars in the world. She was condemned by the Hollywood community for her questionable morality. Producer Budd Schulberg, in his book Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince (1981): " Hollywood was a cultural schizophrene: The anti-movie Old Guard with their chamber music & their religious pageants fighting a losing battle against the more dynamic culture who flaunted the bohemianism of Edna St. Vincent Millay & the socialism of Upton Sinclair. But, there was one subject on which staid old Hollywood establishment & the members of the new culture circle would agree: Clara Bow, no matter how great her popularity, was a low-life & a disgrace to the community."


Scandal ruined Clara Bow. She had a breakdown & had to recover in a sanatorium. She left films for good, & moved to Nevada with her new husband- cowboy actor Rex Bell. They had 2 sons, but Clara Bow was battling mental illness. She was a doting mother to her sons, but haunted by a weight problem & profound depression, Clara Bow was confined to a  psychiatric hospital & not allowed to see her children. She died of a heart attack in her small house in West L.A., on September 26, 1965, while watching a Gary Cooper movie. She was 60 years old & living in poverty & obscurity. Clara Bow is buried Forest Lawn Memorial Park.


Most of her films have been lost. Of her 56 films,silent & sound, only 27 exist in their entirety or in pieces. Only 16 are available on video. The remaining films that survive are in the Library of Congress Film Archive.

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Theodosia Burr Goodman was was one of the most popular screen actresses of her era, & one of filmdom’s original sex symbols. She earned her the nickname "The Vamp" (short for vampire). The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually forward woman.

The glamorous star of the 1910s, Theda Bara is also the most inaccessible & mysterious today. Only Mary Pickford & Charlie Chaplin were more popular, but today it's nearly impossible to view her work. Of the more than 40 films she made from 1914 -1926, only 3 remain. Her image remains with film fans 70+ years after her retirement, & she is the only star responsible for a word being placed both in the dictionary. Songs were written about Theda Bara, postcards & magazines featured her face. Dangling earrings, kohled eyes, languorous glances & the catch phrase- "Kiss me, you fool!" became part of the public lexicon.


Theda Bara did not end up as a bitter, destitute recluse, like other sex symbols of the Silent Era. In 1921 she married successful director Charles Brabin, a marriage that lasted until her death in 1955. The Brabins were wealthy world travelers, & Theda's Bara’s talent as hostess & gourmet made their Beverly Hills home a favorite with the film community into the 1960s. Theda Bara is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.


The fact that Theda Bara never spoke on screen makes her even more fascinating & mysterious. We are able to hear the voices of Mary Pickford, Lon Chaney, Charles Chaplin & Norma Talmadge, only a few stars: Theda Bara, Rudolph Valentino, Wallace Reid, Constance Talmadge are silent forever. Theda Bara remains almost invisible as well. It makes me impossibly melancholy that her legacy is crumbling away to dust.

Born On This Day- July 29th... The Embodiment Of Savoir Vivre- William Powell

After a rather difficult exchange, at the height of a short era of not doing all that well as a couple, I turned to the Husband with the challenge: “Are we George & Martha… or Nick & Nora?” Even in the heat of the disagreement, he was able to answer without a pause- "We are William Powell & Myrna Loy... NOT Elizabeth Taylor& Richard Burton!"

William Powell was major star at MGM, where he was paired with one of the Husband’s favorites- Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the Thin Man series in which Powell & Loy played Nick & Nora Charles. I never have recovered from seeing the Thin Man films in my early adulthood. It was then that I decided that I would grow old with William Powell (or David Niven) as my model: sophisticated, urbane, cynical, with martini in hand at all times. He was nominated for 3 Academy Awards for Best Actor: The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936) & Life with Father (1947).

After an earlier 1st marriage, Powell married actress Carole Lombard in 1931. They were married for only 2 years, but stayed good friends, even co-starring in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey 3 years later.


He had a passionate affair with actress Jean Harlow beginning in 1935, cut short by her untimely death in 1937. It is reported that a single white gardenia with an unsigned note were placed in her hands before she was interred, presumed to be written by Powell. The note read, "Good night, my dearest darling". He also paid for her final resting place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Powell married actress Diana Lewis in 1940. The couple had only known each other for 3 weeks before their wedding. They remained married until Powell's death. In 1984, Powell died in Palm Springs, at the age of 91, 30+ years after his final film- Mr. Roberts. I would like to finish up my life looking good at 91 years old, in Palm Springs, right after that last martini. Thank you, William Powell, for being a role model.

Do You Know Where You're Going To?

Miss Diana Ross in her Oscar nominated performance as Billie Holiday. This was my theme song  for the summer of 1976, living in NYC & trying to figure it all out. I would sing this to myself while hiking in the Rambles in Central Park.


My dear friend- WCK3 is getting set to move in to really swell new digs in the throbbing metropolis of Eugene, Oregon. His new place is very swank & is being designed,  down to the fixtures, just for him. As I stated recently: "WCK3, I am so refreshing that you are giving up the college dorm room look that you have cultivated for all too long". He was not pleased. He has been digging through boxes of photos & clippings, doing a bit of editing, & he came up with these:

Your host,  NYC circa 1976. I think I might be cutting a line of coke in this photo.

WCK3 & my college friend- TL, a beautiful & talented, tall dancer/actress, &  classmate & friend from L.A., on the Circle Line Cruise, autumn 1976. After WCK3 sent this, I mailed him back & I noted: "hmmm... I would so do young me"

WCK3: "I did, over & over."

This 1976 doodle, produced in my cubicle at my ASCAP job, has been saved framed, in many of WCK3's residences through the decades. So sweet that he has kept it through all the years & all the moves. I was just a little influenced by New Yorker cartoons in my early 20s, so it seems.

This is what I was listening to in July of 1976. Some things don't change, like my love of quality R&B, & some things change absolutely, like my hairline.

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Born On This Day- July 27th...Pioneering Advocate Rev. Troy Perry

I identify as a Christian-Jewish-Muslim-Hindu-Taoist- Buddhist- Nudist- Pagan heretic. I believe it all & I believe none of it. But, I am proud to live in a country where a citizen can worship as they please, or not worship at all... at least so far, barring the influence of the American Christian Taliban.

The Metropolitan Community Church has over 900 congregations in 18 countries & was the first church to serve the spiritual needs of GLBT Christians.

Rev. Troy Perry ran away from an abusive home in Florida to live with relatives in Georgia where he found the spirit & the call to preach. He dropped out of school & became a Baptist preacher at age 15. He married a preacher's daughter & had 2 sons. He lost his first church when it came to light that he had sex with men. He moved his family to California & started at another church, & then his wife discovered his secret. Perry's bishop ordered him to renounce himself & resign.


After a suicide attempt following a failed love affair, & witnessing a close friend being arrested by the police at the Black Cat Tavern, a Los Angeles gay bar, Perry felt called to return to his preaching & to offer a place for gay people to worship freely. in 1969 Perry put an ad in The Advocate announcing a worship service designed for gays. 12 people showed up for the first service- "9 were my friends who came to console me & to laugh, & 3 came as a result of the ad." He used many small venues for his new church, eventually moving to a theater that could hold 600. In 1971, their own building was dedicated with 1000+ members in attendance. A 2007 documentary- Call Me Troy is the story of his life & legacy, including the founding of MCC & his struggles as a civil rights leader in the gay community. Troy lives in Los Angeles with his husband- Phillip Ray De Blieck, whom he married at Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto. I hate to bring it down to this level... but, he is yummy Daddy-rific.

"When younger, I was thin as a rail. As I've grown older, I've put on weight. I have continued to love myself in all those roles. Part of my spirituality, I always tell people, is to accept yourself for who you are."

Desain minimalis

Desain minimalis, sejarah, definisi dan kriteria








Pada dasarnya, pembangunan awal gaya arsitektur modern adalah konsep yang terpisah. Bersama dengan penyebaran di dunia dan kemajuan teknologi pengaruk, budaya, semakin itu terjadi perkembangan yang lebih baik daripada konsep-konsep modern seperti kelahiran konsep arsitektur postmodern, maksimalis dan minimalis.

arsitektur postmodern adalah sebuah konsep bahwa seni, ilmu teknologi, menggabungkan dan krajinan. Bangunan postmodern dipandang lebih pluralistik dan bervariasi daripada pendahulunya adalah sebuah konsep modern. Beberapa contoh bangunan postmodern adalah kelas dunia Cina Sarang Burung Stadion Nasional.

Atau posting di negara kita, istilah ini kadang-kadang digunakan dalam hal konsep modern arsitektur klasik modern, arsitektur modern, etnik, arsitektur tradisional modern, arsitektur kontemporer Bali, dan sebagainya. Atau jugadengan panas kontemporer istilah modern.

Adapun arsitektur minimalis adalah pengembangan konsep modern. Jadi konsep minimalis asritek sering disebut sebagai turunan dari arsitektur modern. Memahami arsitektur minimalis dapat dibandingkan dengan gaya arsitektur lain maksimalis arsitektur.

Arsitektur maksimalis kita pahami sebagai karya orang hakim berlebihan atau kadang-kadang sebagai bagian biasa dari arsitektur.

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Pertama.Tempat di mana arsitektur tersebut dikembangkan. elemen ini konsisten dengan ilmu arsitektur bahwa lokasi atau situs bangunan merupakan elemen penting dalam salah satu pertimbangan desain utama, dan karena itu tidak diragukan lagi bahwa konsep modern lahir di kawasan barat akan perbedaan dengan konsep modern di Indonesia, yang sangat berbeda dari situasi di lokasi geografis tertentu. Dan arsitektur Indonesia seharusnyalah memiliki konsep sendiri arsitektur modern

Kedua. kemajuan teknologi. Kemajuan teknologi akan melahirkan konsep-konsep baru dalam dunia arsitektur. Dalam hal metode perencanaan, bangunan, atau struktur

Ketiga. Keadaan sosial atau pola hidup. Hal ini sejalan dengan Masyarakat sebagai penikmat komponet pertimbangan penting arsitektur desain arsitektur, sehingga seseorang akan mampu mewujudkan dari adanya keamanan, Kenya mana, estetika yang ia inginkan. Nilai kehidupan modern, banyak perberbedaan barat dengan negara timur nilai-nilai kehidupan modern. Dan itu akan sangat mempengaruhi pemahaman konsep arsitektur Indonesaia.

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Minimal konsep desain rumah bertujuan untuk meningkatkan nilai seluruh ruangan (eksternal dan internal) untuk mengurangi over-semua di ruangan itu. Minimal pola hidup adalah filsafat proses, dinamis, ringkas dan efektif dan efisien, yang akan diterapkan dalam semua aspek kehidupan, termasuk arsitektur, ruang interior dan taman Luar Negeri.

Untuk merasa nyaman ruang (spasi, keabadian, dan suasana meditatif) dan sesuai dengan kebutuhan dasar penduduk, meningkatkan distribusi udara segar, pencahayaan, kesehatan dan kelimpahan sinar matahari (kaya warna).

desain rumah Minimum banyak menghapus kejenuhan pada penggunaan hiasan dekoratif dan aksesori perhiasan. Adalah untuk menentukan sifat dan kualitas tempat-tempat yang diciptakan oleh keberadaan ruang itu sendiri, bukan furnitur dan aksesori perhiasan di dalamnya.

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Born On This Day- July 27th... Comedian & Writer Carol Leifer

After graduating from Binghampton University with a degree in Theatre, Carol Leifer started in stand-up after accompanying her then boyfriend Paul Reiser to his gig at Catch A Raising Star. She enjoyed a successful career doing stand up & appeared on Late Night with David Letterman more more that 25 times. She moved to writing & has won Emmys for her work on The Larry Sanders Show, Saturday Night Live, Rules of Engagement (also executive producer), & most famously- Seinfeld (she has been dubbed- the real Elaine). She once opened for Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas. In September 2007, Leifer won an auction for the handwritten notes used by Michael Vick during his apology for his role in dogfighting. Carol Leifer lives in Santa Monica with her partner- real estate developer Lori Wolf.

“I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn’t part of a small enough minority. So now I’m a Jewish lesbian vegan."

2 on the 26th... Happy Birthday, Viv & Gracie

I always wanted to have a summer birthday. Here are 2 of my all time favorite funny ladies who share a birthday today:

Vivian Vance

Vivian Roberta Jones enjoyed a long career on Broadway, in films & of course, TV.
Lucille Ball: "I find that now I usually spend my time looking at Viv. Viv was sensational. And back then, there were things I had to do—I was in the projection room for some reason, and I just couldn't concentrate on it. But now I can. And I enjoy every move that Viv made. She was something."

Gracie Allen

Possibly the funniest woman ever- Grace Ellen Rosalie Allen made her stage debut at age 3 in vaudville as a singer & dancer. Along with her husband George Burns, she was half of one of the greatest double acts in show biz. Burns explained that he noticed Allen's straight lines were getting more laughs than his punchlines, so he cannily flipped the act over & he made himself the straight man & let her get the laughs. Audiences immediately fell in love with Allen's character, who combined the traits of stupidity, zaniness, & total innocence. As is often the case with performers who play dumb, Gracie was, in reality, highly intelligent. The reformulated team, focusing on Allen, toured the country, eventually headlining in major vaudeville houses. Many of their famous routines, including "Lambchops" were preserved on early 1 & 2-reeler short films made while the couple was still performing on the stage. George Burns attributed all of the couple's early success to Allen, modestly ignoring his own brilliance as a straight man. He summed up their act in a classic quip: "All I had to do was say, 'Gracie, how's your brother?' & she talked for 38 years, & sometimes I didn't even have to remember to say 'Gracie, how's your brother?'"

Allen died of a heart attack in 1964, & she is buried at Forest Lawn. Burns was interred at her side when he died 32 years later. "Gracie Allen & George Burns — Together Again," reads the engraving on the marker.


In later years Burns admitted that following an argument over a pricey silver table centerpiece Allen wanted, he had a very brief affair with a Las Vegas showgirl. Stricken by guilt, he phoned Jack Benny & told him about the indiscretion. However, Allen overheard the conversation & Burns quietly bought the expensive centerpiece. Nothing more was said. Years later he discovered that Allen had told one of her friends about the liason finishing with, "You know, I really wish George would cheat on me again. I could use a new centerpiece."

George Bernard Shaw... Early Gay Rights Advocate?

The very heterosexual- George Bernard Shaw is one of my favorite figures in history. He was a man of the theatre & films, a Socialist & a rabble rouser. My 1st realization of Shaw as an important person was from my parent's original cast album of My Fair Lady, a Lerner & Lowe musical based on Shaw's play Pygmalion. The cover featured a drawing of Shaw as God the puppeteer, pulling the strings of Julie Andrews & Rex Harrison as marionettes. I still picture God as Shavian.

G.B. Shaw was born on this day in 1856, in Dublin & moved to London when he was 20 years old. He found great success as a music & literary critic, but he is most famous for writing drama. He wrote 60+ plays, & he continued to write until his death at 94. He was fiercely proud of being a free thinking humanist, dedicated to presenting the cause of human rights for all.

Shaw became a vegetarian while he was 25. As a strict vegetarian, he was a firm anti-vivisectionist & was antagonistic to cruel sports for the remainder of his life.The belief in the immorality of eating animals is frequently a topic in his plays & prefaces. Shaw: "A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses."


But who knew that he was a gay rights activist? In 1889, Shaw recognized the harassment, arrests, & punishments given to homosexuals as a violation of basic human rights & wrote to the editor of a newspaper:


”I am sorry to have to ask you to allow me to mention what everybody declares unmentionable. My justification shall be that we may presently be saddled with the moral responsibility for monstrously severe punishments inflicted not only on persons who have corrupted children, but on others whose conduct, however nasty & ridiculous, has been perfectly within their admitted rights as individuals. To a fully occupied person in normal health, with due opportunities for a healthy social enjoyment, the mere idea of the subject of the threatened prosecutions is so expressively disagreeable as to appear unnatural. But everybody does not find it so. There are among us highly respected citizens who have been expelled from public schools for giving effect to the contrary opinion; & there are hundreds of others who might have been expelled on the same ground had they been found out. Greek philosophers, otherwise of unquestioned virtue, have differed with us on the point. So have soldiers, sailors, convicts, & in fact members of all communities deprived of intercourse with women. A whole series of Balzac's novels turns upon attachments formed by galley slaves for one another - attachments which are represented as redeeming them from utter savagery. Women, from Sappho onwards, have shown that this appetite is not confined to one sex. Now, I do not believe myself to be the only man in England acquainted with these facts. I strongly protest against any journalist writing, as nine out of ten are at this moment dipping their pens to write, as if he had never heard of such things except as vague & sinister rumors concerning the most corrupt phases in the decadence of Babylon, Greece & Rome. I appeal now to the champions of individual rights to join me in a protest against a law by which two adult men can be sentenced to twenty years penal servitude for a private act, freely consented to & desired by both, which concerns themselves alone. There is absolutely no justification for the law except the old theological one of making the secular arm the instrument of God's vengeance. It is a survival from that discarded system with its stonings & burnings; & it survives because it is so unpleasant that men are loath to meddle with it even with the object of getting rid of it, lest they should be suspected of acting in their personal interest. We are now free to face with the evil of our relic of Inquisition law, & of the moral cowardice, which prevents our getting rid of it. For my own part, I protest against the principle of the law under which the warrants have been issued; & I hope that no attempt will be made to enforce its outrageous penalties in the case of adult men."

Dog Days

It is 92 degrees this afternoon & these dogs are sacked out:

Louis, the special weekend guest canine is trying to fit in Larry's bed. God only knows where Louis's Daddy- T is or what he is up to..

I just hope that he is as worn out as his poddle.

Junior is fagged out on a tasteful & lovely Afghan rug from the early 20th century. Always a classic look. Junior is as calculating & shallow as I am. We both share a great concern that at anytime, we need to look cute.

Larry the Canine (his professional wrestling name) enjoys the cool cork floor, is it just because it is in the kitchen?

Larry is a food whore.

Reflections On A Summer Sunday Afternoon

 My favorite song about summer, from the musical- The Golden Apple by Jerome Moross & John Treville Latouche.

What a difference a week makes, 168 little hours. I am taking a rare mini-staycation. I have 5 days in a row, in which I must work about 12 hours.The owner of the business that I work for (who I like) is on vacation in another state, a situation that always makes me feel a tiny bit more relaxed.

Some details of scenes around the garden.

My idea of perfect happiness is a summer day off from work, with no list of things to do & no agenda, with a couple of $20s in my jeans (just in case a little shopping calls to me). I am enjoying just such a day as I post this, mostly because I warned the forces that might make a mess of it- I am going to have my day, my way. A hot summer afternoon in late July is condusive to doing little & enjoying small things in a big way: never leaving the house or garden, listening to my choice of music, read favorite blogs, do a blog post, not getting in trouble for being on the computer too much, watering the garden, sweeping The Boys’ Fort, going for a dog walk, smoke a bowl, make the August Playlist, being-in- the-now, taking note the temperature, the plants, the sky, the Husband, the dogs, being ecstatic, being calm.


The August 2010 Playlist::


Between My Legs- Rufus Wainwright


Crossfire- Brandon Flowers


I Burn For You- Sting with London Philharmonic


Machines Can Do The Work- Fatboy Slim & Herve


DJ’s Got Us Fallin’ In Love- Usher featuring Pitbull


Misery- Maroon 5


Tweak Your Nipple- Faithless


Next To Me- Alan Cumming


Senegal Fast Food- Amadoum& Mariam


You Are Not Alone- Mavis Staples


Your Love- Nicki Minaj


Show & Tell- Al Wilson


Straight No Chaser- Chet Baker


When I Get Low I Get High- Jane Krakowski


If You A Viper- Erin McKeowan

Thank you to the readers who commented & sent best wished & sympathy to the Husband. He reads Post Apocalyptic Bohemian, even when recovering from surgery for Dupuytren’s Contracture. The Husband uses the fact that he in agonizing, difficult pain all the time, to be a bit of a shithead… but I am not allowing that to matter during my little summer respite. Below are photos of the Husband's hand 3 weeks after surgery. He wouldn’t let me see it before now. Yikes! Call James Whale, it is time to make Hand Of Frankenstein. I know life has been kicking him in the gut in 2010. I brought him a beautiful Blueberry/Peach pie, hoping it would keep him busy & happy for a while.

The Husband did, at long last, receive some scraps of good news: he won a judgment for back wages from a past employer, & he has a freelance job doing French style bistro signs for a café. They are quite stylish & smart, & not all that easy to produce with one hand. Even with his extreme pain & current state of mine, the Husband manages to relax also, it is after all, a very Lazy Afternoon. Even in repose, the Husband puts his best side forward.

3 dudes who are old enough to know not to be out in the sun without sunscreen. Bad Dogs!

Getting Naked With Thomas Eakins

Running naked, down the state highway

Running naked, in the middle of the day

Running naked like a tom cat's behind

Running naked but the cat

don't seem to mind

Give me your heart

I'll give you mine first

Give me your time

& I'll give you my trust

& we're buck naked now

Like when we were born

When will we find out?

& why does it take so long?

& we're buck naked now

& we're buck naked now

& we're buck naked now

In the eyes of the Lord

Running naked like the

day when I was born

We're all naked in the land

where I come from

I'm a long long way from

New York City now

We're all naked

if you turn us inside out

& we're buck naked now

We ain't got no clothes

Bare assed for sure

In the eyes of God

Naked in my heart

Naked in my soul

Well, how, how does it feel?

Does anybody know?

Well we're naked inside

You're naked too

Well there's nothing to fear

& there's nothing we can do

Well we're buck naked now

Buck naked now

Well we're buck naked now

In the eyes of the Lord.

Naked

David Bryrne

1994

Born On This Day- July 25th... American Painter & Photographer Thomas Eakins

I am enamored of late 19th & 20th century American painters & Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins epitomizes everything I love about the American Realist Movement. Eakins was unsuccessful as an artist in his lifetime, but he is thought to be one of the most influential & important figures in American painting. His work is significant for its homoeroticism, & he is noted for his teaching methods, & for his insistence on teaching men & women together, which was ground breaking & controversial at the time.


Eakins was raised & educated in Philadelphia. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, & he spent several years studying in Paris & Spain. He returned to the Pennsylvania Academy to teach in 1876, & became the director in 1882. His teaching methods were controversial at the time, especially his interest in instructing his students in all aspects of the human figure, including the nude. There were tensions between him & the Academy's board of directors throughout his teaching career, he was ultimately fired in 1886 for removing the loincloth of a male model in a class where female students were present. Deeply influenced by his dismissal, his later painting concentrated on portraiture, usually of friends & family. This work was realistic but with approach that went beyond just pure representation. He was influenced by early photographers & did many photographs as studies, including many nudes. I find this photographic work to exceptional also.

I have a large "coffee table" book of his work that has given me much pleasure. Along with John Singer Sargent & James Whistler his work has been very influential in defining my taste in painting & my passion for art.