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Joan Didion
I finished Play It As It Lays, a delightful Didion novel, while in Montauk last week and picked up another one yesterday when I got back to California (The Last Thing He Wanted). I love her fiction....
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Heavenly, For Sure
Do you remember Talulah Gosh? After Talulah Gosh there was Heavenly. They sing love songs! Twirling around in your long skirt songs! Jumping up and down and flailing your arms songs! Twee, for sure and...
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Ruth Stout's Garden
I started a Permaculture class last week in the Oakland hills (OH YEAH!). Working outside in this glorious summer weather has been quite the treat. After planting and adding new drip irrigation lines...
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REAL UNICORNS FOR REAL
I knew nothing of the world of Oberon and Morning Glory Zell Ravenheart before this year. These crazy hippies believe in MAGIK and MAGIKAL CREATURES. Taking their real world doctoring skills and mixing...
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READ THESE
TIGERS, AIRPLANES, MADE UP CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRIES, COUPS D'ETAT, ABORTIONS IN MEXICO, AND LOVVVEEE.
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Witchy Mama
I can never get enough Mama Cass. She is wonderful as Witch Hazel in H. R. Pufnstuf.Celebrating difference!! Wonder no longer, together we're stronger, it's not so bad to be different, be true to your...
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LIONS LOVE
Agnes Varda's Lions Love is PERFECT. It was shot in Hollywood in 1968.The film is so playful. The set is glorious: a house in the Hollywood hills with a big swimming pool, a fake bird of paradise next...
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FLUFFY BABIES PETTING ZOO
Lately I've fantasized about buying Angora rabbits and farming them for their hair and cuddles. Wouldn't it be sweet to spin their hair into yarn and knit beautiful warm socks? In the mountains of...
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The House Without Windows & Eepersip's Life There: A View
Let me take you for a moment to a window for a glimpse into the mind of a brilliant eight-year-old girl, Miss Barbara Newhall Follett, who put her fingers to keys in 1923 and ended up with The House...
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ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN
Errol Morris's film Gates of Heaven is a fascinating glimpse into the world of failed pet cemeteries, successful pet cemeteries, rendering plants, Bubbling Wells Pet Memorial Park, and real live HUMAN...
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OUI, JE SUIS MAJEURE
Lio is the cutest teenage pop star EVERRR. She sings songs about Bébés Vampires, Banana Splits, and Speedy Gonzales! With help from Jacno (Jacques Duvall) and her rad dance moves, she became a hit in...
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VASHTI BUNYAN: FROM HERE TO BEFORE
Vashti Bunyan is WONDERFUL. If you haven't seen From Hereto Before, a documentary about her life and music, you should. Right now, walk outside and ask every person you see if they have it. "The...
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Love Birds, directed by Brian Lye, made me clap for joy last weekend. Shot in the beautiful hillsides of the Czech Republic, it is everything a narrative short film should be. Right down to its...
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FAERIE TALE THEATRE
One home-recorded VHS tape in my family's small collection was marked "Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood." It housed the most delightfully sweet live-action fairy tales my eyes had witnessed. I knew...
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VIVA SUPERSTAR
I have been living in a parallell universe of Viva for the past few weeks as I read both of her novels (a review of BABY forthcoming). SUPERSTAR is a coming of age story. The saga of Janet Susan Mary...
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KANGA ROOS
A beautiful photo by Sam Hood, a hilarious gif and two amazing photos of Amelia by her mother Robin Schwartz (my favorite)! Kangaroos are so silly. I've only seen one at a petting zoo at the Sacramento...
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COOL CATS (WITH FANCY HATS)
I love cats, especially Japanese cats. My favorite Japanese cat is Maru (if you've never heard of Maru, you are in for a pleasant surprise) and now these kitties have stolen my heart. For photos of...
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SCUM: SOCIETY FOR CUTTING UP MEN
Valerie Solanas is infamous for shooting Andy Warhol. She was pissed that he wouldn't read her screenplay 'Up Your Ass'. Viva was on the phone with Andy at the time and thought the boys at the Factory...
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MISS SWEATER GIRL
The transition from summer to fall in the Bay Area can be a troubling time. Just as I've prepared for the colds and the rains, hot days pop in to confuse and dehydrate me. I am wearing tiny sundresses...
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WORDZ
I have been at a loss for them lately. After playing a game of Beyond Balderdash on Sunday I decided that I only know how to make nonsense.Acronym:B. L. O. W. S.Begin Learning Opening Windows...
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HALLOW'D DECAY
My sweet Jack O' Latern carved on Wednesday on the compost pile by Saturday. In total decay by Halloween. Now I just watch it everyday from my window as the flies and bacteria swallow it up.
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IT'S THE DESERT Y'ALL
Outside of Tucson is Mt. Lemmon. It's got lots of saguaros, perfectly eroded rocks, and, at the top, a teeny ski village.Most of my photos were taken at Windy Point, a rest stop along the highway built...
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CHANDRA
Chandra Oppenheim is da cutest. I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG CALLED KATE."There's a girl named Kate and she thinks she's really great, but she's not"AMAZINGFrom a recent interview with Fader: "So with...
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POTO AND CABENGO
LANGUAGE. Jean-Pierre Gorin says in the beginning of his 1979 documentary on twins Gracie and Ginny Kennedy that "you can only be a foreigner in a language other than your own." These beautiful little...
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THIS IS POETRY
I never really liked poetry until I read Richard Brautigan. His poems are so GOOD. They are funny, sweet, smart and perfect. Read this:Hopefully you are now going WHAATTTT? Are you for real? Is this...
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