Venice Beach
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Posting for XingfuMama’s Pull-Up-a-Seat Challenge, 2024
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Well, self will be sad to finish this book. She started reading it in Cork, continued reading it in Wexford, continued reading it in Dublin, and now has been reading it in London. She didn’t start with high hopes, especially since there’s a cringe-inducing love/hate thing going on with Jack Nicholson. But Huston shines when…
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Sylvain Landry’s new photo challenge is CARS! How great is that? Self is from California! Course she only finds 10 million photos of cars in her archive! Stay tuned.
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How self adores poetry. Regular readers of this blog know this. In 2014, when she was in Los Angeles with Angela Narciso Torres, Angela and she went to a bookstore in Venice Beach called A Small World. Self found a book by Tomas Transtromer, a Swedish poet. And that book is here with self in…
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This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is AFLOAT. The pictures self chose are from: Venice Beach, a trip she took with Angela Narciso Torres in November; the park two blocks from her house in Redwood City, which holds free weekly concerts every Wednesday throughout the summer; and the Cambridge River, on a visit self paid to…
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“This week, compose your subject off-center.” (WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge, Week beginning Friday, 20 February 2015) Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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When self was with Angela Narciso Torres in Venice Beach in November, Angela took self to A Small World, a fabulous bookstore fronting the beach. Self ended up getting poetry collections by Neruda and Tomas Transtromer. This evening, self is looking through Transtromer’s collection The Great Enigma (Pretty fabulous, that title!), translated by Robin Fulton.…
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is, fittingly enough, NEW. Hence this post is about 1) New Books 2) New Experiences and 3) A New Play New additions to self’s personal bookshelf. The Neruda she bought in Venice Beach. By the Book was a Christmas present. First Time to Visit Chicago in the…
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Self visited Venice Beach twice this year: the first time in September, by herself. The second in November, with Angela Narciso Torres, who was giving a reading at Beyond Baroque (which, incidentally, was where self discovered that Viggo Mortensen of Lord of the Rings fame used to participate in their poetry writing workshops, way back…
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