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Izzy
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Izzy
I Send You this Lapis Lazuli
What a color!
I loved the scene in Girl with a Pearl Earring where Colin Firth (Vermeer) sends Scarlett Johansson (Griet) to buy Lapis Lazuli and adds
My wife need not know about this
Damn that stuff was expensive. Yves Klein worshiped it.
Is lapis the most divine, royal, sublime color?
Or is there something about the relentlessness of any pure color? Kids go nuts with primary colors. As “adults” we exercise refinement in elegant palettes and blends. Or grey. Have we washed the power of pure color from our souls?
Photos by: Orbital Joe • cobalt123 • Johan J.Ingles-Le Nobel • cobalt123 • Lelê Breveglieri • lisabelle3
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Ysidora Pico
Yes, lapis lazuli. The very name sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Was that what Yves Klein was thinking when he named his painting Requiem? Requiem for a dream of pure color?
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Ysidora Pico
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Izzy
I Send You this Duchamp Dossier
Photo by CraftyGoat Ysidora! I’ve been struck by the dialog from your performance:
Your mom throws everything away and that’s why she has no history
She has no history because she is a woman
As you know I’ve been thinking about the magical qualities, the bounded serendipity of Cornell Boxes. Today I was thinking about that lovely collaboration I Send You this Cadmium Red, and another famous collaboration between 2 legendary box guys: Joseph Cornell & Marcel Duchamp’s Duchamp Dossier.
Weather it’s stolen land or a damnatio memoraie from your misogynist brother, we’re 2 dead women who’ve had some of our history erased. Would you care to start a correspondence? We might trade Spanish Land Grants, Cadmium Reds, Duchamp Dossiers, Renaissance Portraits, Lost Journals, or anything else. We could do it right here on react, or I know someone who just loves to make new sites and could set one up for us.
What do you think?
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Ysidora Pico
I would be pleased to start a correspondence with you, Izzy. Let’s do it. I will find something to share with you. You let me know where to send it. Besos, su comadre, Ysi.
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Isabella Medici
Where to send it? How about here to .Re/act?
Unless you’d like a separate Box/Blog for it…
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Ysidora Pico
Here is great!
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Christa Forster
Twitter essay by @tejucole “@apieceofthewall”
I’m fascinated by how @tejucole is using Twitter.Definitely someone to follow….
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Vanessa
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Christa Forster
Wonderful! Thank you for this, Vanessa. I just posted in another place that my %#^& screen recording plan went awry because I FAILED TO TURN IT ON before the performance. I recorded every other thing — every rehearsal, whether formal or informal, making sure I had the technology down. Then, at the moment when it mattered, I failed!
Hah! “Ruin is a great teacher….” Indeed.
Also, Michael told me that the second performance was marred technologically by someone-who-shall-soon-be-clobbered’s unmuted microphone! (my husband’s).
Hah! Again. Perhaps it was my male ancestors making their presence known.
Here’s to you, Mistress of the Muted Microphone! Thanks for your support. It means a lot to me.
xo
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Vanessa
Ysidora’s *What’s on My Mind* just started I’m…
Ysidora’s What’s on [My] Mind just started! I’m watching by Google Hangout with EZTV and the live performance in Houston.
(I wonder if you can easily run a “real” camera (or cameras) into a Google Hangout. Haha, I’m so demanding! But anyway, if the camera could switch or move, that’d be a nice extra dimension.
Anyway, Ysidora just started singing!! Something about living with a white girl…
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Vanessa Blaylock
“Your mom throws everything away and that’s why she has no history”
“She has no history because she is a woman”
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Vanessa Blaylock
“My brother died twice…
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Vanessa Blaylock
she was acquitted because they were convinced she suffered from “menstrual madness”
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Vanessa Blaylock
What gets aborted?
We don’t know.
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Christa Forster
Awwww. Sugar. Thanks for being there.
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Vanessa
Outing the Meta-artist
In yesterday’s Blueberry Hangout we discussed Molly’s continuing work with Opal Whiteley, and Michael introduced the fascinating artist Shea Hembrey. Like Roberta Breitmore, The Watermelon Woman, Luther Blissett, and many others, these artists work with ideas of Identity & Authenticity, of Fact & Fiction.
If you think about it, Rrose Selavy’s oeuvre isn’t all that amazing. She really only becomes interesting when you out that she’s “really” Marcel Duchamp. Oh isn’t that clever and insightful. Serbian artist Darko Maver created simulated horror and carnage of war installations. His pieces about war in the Balkans shocked and mesmerized audiences around the globe and even at the Venice Biennale. The twist was that he wasn’t a “real” artist presenting simulated (“fake”) war imagery; he was a “fake” artist presenting “real” war imagery. Maver’s work had already had a “real” and global impact, but the twist made it resonate more deeply (and also more artworld insiderly)
Are alternate identities only, or most, interesting once outed, and therefor rendered somewhat “over” once the punchline has been sprung? Can, Should, and How Does, an alternate identity stand on its own?
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Vanessa Blaylock
@nickvlcek turned me on to another one:
Donelle Woolford as performed by various people hired by Joe Scanlan.Woolford at the Whitney Museum:
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/DonelleWoolfordInterview with Scanlan:
http://bombmagazine.org/article/3580/joe-scanlanIt’s interesting to find these gems… there’s a sort of cool, but very incomplete and on hiatus directory… I’d love to add to it or start one like it… I should contact Antoinette LaFarge and see what she thinks:
http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/
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Vanessa
Blueberry Hangout, March 2014
Christa ForsterChrista, Molly, Michael & I had our monthly Blueberry Hangout today. We were joined by Isabella Medici who’s recruiting faculty for Medici University.
Everybody is so busy!
Christa:
http://14pews.org/calendar.asp?pageid=15&calid=908Molly is doing several things with her Opal Whiteley project, links coming soon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_WhiteleyMichael: OMG! The USC Libraries One Archive is ALL about EZTV!
http://one.usc.edu/category/programs/upcoming-programs/Rebecca:
we unfortunately had some sort of connection mishap with Rebecca, but here’s her latest blog post:
http://rebeccalongworth.blogspot.com/2014/03/no-there-there.htmlKatrina doesn’t love us anymore (just kidding!) but here’s the teaser for her exciting new solo show:
Isabella:
http://MediciUniversity.co.uk
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Izzy
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Michel Nostradamus
Lost Journals
A charla is a type of seance then? Communication with those now incorporeal? This is useful. I am concerned that the journals of my 1560 mission for Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, are once again lost. They surfaced so briefly. I do not believe they have been destroyed. Or that the parties in possession of them are even aware of their true meaning or power. Are you able to locate these documents?
Currently known fragments are here:
n.ostradam.us-
Christa Forster
Amazing; these journals would be a monumental contribution to the history of the world. I will ask @ysidora if she can hunt around the ether for them. She has a very perceptive ear.
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Izzy
I gave a try to creating a little…
I gave a try to creating a little bit of a Cornell-like experience online. Here’s a simple page that just uses mouse rollovers. What I like about the rollover is it’s a tiny anthropomorphic thing. Like someone nodding their head when you converse, it’s just a bit of feedback that says, “yes, we’re talking!”
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Christa Forster
I like it! I especially loved seeing my beloved Houston’s Zoo represented. I like how the final panel — Confused? — makes the giraffe look like a Joshua Tree! Nice work. Keep going.
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Isabella Medici
I too am in search of lost journals! Perhaps a conspiracy of some sort has beset us? Or a dreaded damnatio memoriae! 🙁
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Meg O'Ryan
Somebody That I Used To Know on disk…
Somebody That I Used To Know, on disk drives!
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Christa Forster
Adding bios for my band of brothers at…
Adding bios for my band of brothers at http://ysidora.wordpress.com.
Need to be finishing memorizing!!!!!!!
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Vanessa
Meta Lord
Vanessa Blaylock & Ayara Illios
My friend Meta Lord, producer of the annual Dutch Gogbot event was nominated for “Sexiest Actor” in The Sexiest Awards! Here’s a photo of me dancing at the afterparty with Ayara Illios who was a double-nominee for Sexiest Actress & Sexiest film.
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Izzy
Aww The Cockroaches did a song for me…
Aww, The Cockroaches did a song for me! How sweet!
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Izzy
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Aunt Renie
Hello Children My job interview during #1850charla yesterday…
Hello Children! My job interview during #1850charla yesterday was a success!
Say hello to the new Director of the MU Avatar Fertility & Surrogacy Clinic! Woot!
Here’s my 1st article!
http://baby.avatarbeauties.asia/baby-names/fetish-models-mushrooms/-
Christa Forster
Congrats, Aunt Renie. I can’t wait to see the magic you work!
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Christa Forster
Reflection on #1850charla
Here’s a post wherein I reflect on the relationship between the #1850charla installment of the What’s on [My] Mind? performance project. How does today’s event relate to what I’m doing on March 12, 2014?
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Christa Forster
Just finished the timeline for the #1850charla today…
Just finished the timeline for the #1850charla today. https://twitter.com/xtaforster/timelines/439577717525078016
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Christa Forster
I want to thank everyone who joined me…
I want to thank everyone who joined me today on the Twitter stage for the #1850charla, especially @mediciprincess (Isabella Medici), @patrick (Patrick J. Sweetman), @donnie (Donnie Archer), @auntrenie (Aunt Renie) and @ysidora (Ysidora Pico). xoxoxoxo
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Isabella Medici
Thanks for inviting us! It was a wonderful experience. How does it relate or connect to your 12 March event?
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Christa Forster
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Aunt Renie
Thank YOU so much Christa, the pleasure was all ours. It was a lot of fun spending a little time with your wonderful troupe of people. AND, as you’ll see in my post above, I was also able to do my MU AF&S interview during the charla! Say hello to the new Director of the Clinic!
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Aunt Renie
Hello children I have exciting news I’m coming…
Hello children! I have exciting news! I’m coming out of retirement! I’ve been so touched by the sad stories of avatars who can’t bear their own children, that I’ve decided to open an Avatar Fertility Clinic focusing on surrogate avatar arrangements. What a gift to be able to give! More info coming soon!
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Izzy
Dual Citizen!
I’m thrilled to announce my dual citizenship! In addition to my long standing as a citizen of Italia, I have now also become a citizen of Ladonia. I have great hopes of eventually becoming Ladonia’s Minister of Education.
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Aunt Renie
How wonderful dear, congratulations on this lovely news!
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Vanessa
Meanwhile if anyone remembers that old PBR…
Meanwhile if anyone remembers that old “PBR” MOOC, the peeps over on the FB group are determined to get the certificates promised in the syllabus and for some reason, the instructors seem adamant that certificates not be given:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1397802437119883/1432171353682991/?notif_t=group_comment_reply-
Hugh
I’m not in that loop. I bailed out of FB and into Diaspora. Something similar but more flexible and open source. And oh yeah, user owned so Markie Zee doesn’t have his mitts on my stuff. Do the instructors give a reason for not wanting to give the certs seems curious? I can’t really see the cert being a deal breaker in a job interview though so it seems like a little bit of a waste of energy. But people will often stand on principle before they stand on their own two feet.
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Vanessa Blaylock
Agreed Hugh. It’s not worth making a fuss. Yet weird that the MOOC that asked for more work than any I’ve taken doesn’t want to pass out certs. The instructors apparently claim they never offered one, but the FB group has pointed to the promise in the syllabus.
I originally liked the vision of Diaspora. But love or hate FB, it’s biggest strength is that it’s the new “Phone Book” with almost everybody in it. There aren’t a lot of peeps (that I know of) to share stuff with on Diaspora.
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Hugh
All true. I just feel ikkey every time I use it and I have this messiah complex. If I join they will follow. So far I only know one person there. Perhaps there is an opportunity for a collaborative project there?
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Vanessa Blaylock
Yes Hugh, there are SOOOO many platforms out there! For any activity you like there are numerous Proprietary, and numerous Open choices. Just to take blogging as an example, you could get an account at a proprietary site like Tumblr or Medium or Blogger, or use Open software like WordPress or Open Blog or Ghost. Or many others!
It’s an obscenity of riches! Perhaps all the choice / confusion is even a piece of why so many mostly use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and that’s it. “FTY” IS “The Internet” for many. I was shocked to hear that many people can go a whole week without ever using Google Search, since I, like so many others, use it so many times every day.
It doesn’t have to be an oversimplified binary thing, but when I’m choosing which Feudal Lord to pledge my allegiance to, I choose Google. They’re still proprietary, and they definitely make choices I don’t like, but when it’s Google vs anybody else, Google’s perspective almost always suits me better than the other peeps.
With FB vs G, for example, Facebook really wants to be The New AOL. They’d love it if you never left their walled garden. It’s not quite that simplistic, and they do provide lots of hooks in and out, but I still find some truth in that perspective. By contrast, Google really wants you to surf the complete Information Superhighway, they just want to be the gas station on all the on-ramps. As a blogger, the Google perspex suits me a whole lot better than the FB.
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Christa Forster
Great metaphor there at the end, Van. Love this discussion!
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Christa Forster
Plan for Upcoming Twitter Chat — #1850charla!! — on February 28, 2014
Okay, February 28 is only hours away, and that’s the day we take our #1850charla to the Twitter stage. I…I don’t really know what’s going to happen, but let’s pretend I do.
The original plan (from the .Re/cipes page) was to
pull sentences from…letters we’ve crafted (from our past to our present) to tweet out, using the hashtag #1850charla (a charla is the Spanish world for a “chat.”)
However, some of you may not have written a “letter,” but you still want to participate. Some may have been using this .Re/act page as your letter. And some of you may have written many missives; you may want to tweet out the whole collection in one fell swoop.
Anyone who wants can participate in anyway he or she wants. You will be participating if you use the #1850charla hashtag.
Schedule A: Between 9am and 10am PST (5pm to 6 pm UTC), the #1850charla “performance” will take place. If you are available, please join us on the Twitter stage during that hour. We will be chatting about _________________ (I’m still taking suggestions — from myself and others! if you would like to suggest a topic, please post it in the comments here. I’m very open to suggestions right now!
Here are some useful resources for prepping for the chat, especially if you’ve never participated in a Twitter chat before.
- How to Participate in a Twitter Chat, from the Powerful Learning Practice network #plpnetwork
- Ten Steps to Creating a Successful Twitter Chat by Mark Collier, founder of #blogchat
Schedule B: If you are unable to attend the 9am to 10 am PST chat, then please consider contributing to the #1850charla throughout the day; you can do so by posting something related to the topic/s and adding the hashtag #1850charla.
On February 29, I will “Storify” or create a custom Twitter timeline for the #1850charla and share it here on .Re/act and via Twitter.
Thank you so much for your participation so far. I am truly grateful for your playful and adventurous spirits!!
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Christa Forster
Link for directions about how to customize a Twitter timeline.
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Isabella Medici
How wonderful Christa. So this is not the thing called “Tweetchat” but rather a “Chat on Twitter” (with #1850charla) – is that right?
And then we can participate about our letters or whatever else for the one hour… or the rest of the day?
See you Friday! 😀
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Christa Forster
That is right, Isabella. I think, yes. What you said. I am looking forward to our exchange! LOVE!
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Patrick J. Sweetman
See you all there. Looking forward to it. Some great stuff written.
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Aunt Renie
Sometimes I FEEL like I was born in 1850!
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Izzy
Yes brothers and husbands can sometimes be the…
Yes, brothers and husbands can sometimes be the lowest vermin. It’s old news. But people can also be so beautiful. This 21st century is about exponential possibilities. The 16th was about a scarcity of possibilities, even for a Medici Princess. Yet for all the abundance of this time, I am troubled by 2 trends: sedentary lifestyles and academic lethargy.
Everything is better, save for our bodies and minds sliding into disuse. Too much of both work and play is now experienced from a chair parked in front of a flat-screen. The university has become too much about the pursuit of a piece of paper, not about a rich, humanist education. And so I offer Izzy’s Gym and Medici University, new hopes in a new century for our reinvention, body and soul.
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Patrick J. Sweetman
It always ends in tears….Boys should never play with guns
I’ve been off the grid the last few days. Sooo 1850s. I went to see a medium and as I was telling Ysi she was more of a small, coming in at 155cm and weighing 45 kg. Still she was able to see the future. And as I suspected it’s not pretty. My brother John’s political rantings have so influenced his son that he got seriously involved with the movement for independence and the plight of those who fled the famine for America by helping to establish the Irish-American Colonisation Company in 1880. My nephew, John, stored guns on the site of the brewery for revolution. Because it was not proven that he was directly involved he escaped a jail sentence but the brewery was given a punitive fine (guns and alcohol is never a good idea). The fine, coupled with the financial loss caused by his American exploits, bankrupt the brewery which was then bought out by Guinness six years after I died. At least I did not have to see the Brewery’s sale but I did see its rapid demise. After that John devoted himself to politics full time and co-founded Sinn Fein in 1905. When we won independence in 1921 John felt he was too old to contest the election and so my son Roger stood for a seat which he won. However Roger resigned from parliament less than 12 months later. He stood down as a contentious objector as he did not like the direction the civil war was taking. And he didn’t even have a keg to drown his sorrows in. Ironically we married into a bunch of alcoholics after that. They really missed the boat. Next time my gggs drinks a pint of Guinness I’m going to haunt him with the worst hangover ever.
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Yellow Fever
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Patrick J. Sweetman
You’ll never take me alive!
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Christa Forster
I know THAT’s right.
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Ysidora Pico
Fever!
¡Ay Dios Mio!
I’m worried, so worried about the state of our world. As a result of the hoards streaming into Alta California to plunder the land and the rivers for this gold that they believe the whole land rests upon, much turmoil has erupted. They call our land — which is now newly their land — “the golden state,” but they should be calling it the red and black and blue state because of all the spilled blood and violence being done to get this gold. I have been up to my eyeballs in safeguarding native women and children, refugees to our mission San Juan Capistrano, who have heard rumor that they gain shelter here, gain safety. As I am “la llavera,” I have been taking them in and keeping them in the attic at nights, but we are running out of room! I’ve heard told that there are men in the north full of so much cupidity that their eyeballs are literally turning yellow!
Meg, who seems to have a stronger immune system than most (I’m not positive she is human) is perhaps safe on Mars, but as I have not heard anything from the others (sweet Oscar, Donnie — whose immune system I’m sure is dashed due to his lifestyle — Isabella, Mr. Sweetman), I fear that my comadres and compadres have been victims of some new violence or virulence and that the end is truly nigh!
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Patrick J. Sweetman
No I’m here I had the deep blues (to go with your reds and blacks) after visiting the clairvoyant. I was told she was a medium but she turned out to be very small. Huh advertising. So I snuck off for a couple of days to gather my thoughts. Oh and violence is coming on over here. All guns blazing. My nephew John will bring you some if needed but I fear that will be too late as he only starts to get involved in America in the 1880s. Still let me know if there is anything I can do. Truely yours, PJ
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Ysidora Pico
Getting Closer…
Here is a version of the What’s on [My] Mind? publicity website. Please take a look at it, and if you have a moment, I would appreciate any feedback you might have about what’s working well and about how I can make it better. THANK YOU!
(P.S. If you click on the image, it should take you to the link.) (P.S.S. if you click on the #1850charla post on the website, it will give you an initial understanding of how I’m thinking about organizing the charla).
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Christa Forster
Looks awesome, Ysi!
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Patrick J. Sweetman
Hey Ysi (goes with Izzi) it looks great. And I’ve no problem hanging out with Prima Donnas. Who’s going to throw the best parties the Prima Donnas or the Wallflowers? I’m with the PDs all the way. And anyway in a previous life I was Sarah Bernhardt, that’s enough Prima Donna for any man!
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Christa Forster
Ah, Sarah! I love her style! I’ve turned my hair into a nest for birds but never into a belfry for bats! Next up….
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Patrick J. Sweetman
The lady is a vamp and a little known influence for Ozzie Osbourn’s stage show.
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Meg O'Ryan
Katherine Fernandez Rundle Kicks Ass!
State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle arrests Oscar & Donnie for insurance fraud!
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Ciara 01:35 on 17/03/2014 Permalink |
Gosh, Isabella, you’ve set me thinking…I’ve neither seen nor heard from Donnie for weeks now. Do you think it is possible that he’s been in training for this event? Hmm…I wonder if Mr. Sweetman will march/crawl too. Wasn’t his brother was in the drinks trade?
Isabella Medici 05:40 on 17/03/2014 Permalink |
Oh yes, Donnie & Patrick. All they ever talk about is beer! And where are they today of all days!?!?
Ysidora Pico 20:14 on 18/03/2014 Permalink |
Donnie! I saw him last sitting on a bar, dreaming (was it?) of two spirits — Gin and Tonic?
Isabella Medici 20:26 on 18/03/2014 Permalink |
Are those spirits European? I have yet to encounter them. Perhaps those 2 are Yankee spirits?