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On Design "Living in a well-designed house, sitting in a well-designed chair, sailing a beautiful boat, or playing a fine musical instrument gives us pleasure of a very direct and well recognized kind. The pleasure comes in part from the fact that such well designed things work well and hold up well in use, but it also comes from our sense of being in touch with the skill, intelligence, and sensitivity of the designer through his product." Friedmann, Pile, and Wilson.
TV Late nite Sat. at about 4 a.m., 33 is showing We Love Lucy It's 1 hour b/w epidsodes from the Lucy and Desi Comedy hour. It's the same 4 , with everyone older and Lucy having a new hair style, but I haven't seen any of them and she's just as good here as in her well known half hour shows. The whole cast is. Check it out - it's pure gold!
MiniQuiz What is 'promiscuous seating"? Answer later.
Lit. Want a great line from pulp fiction? "It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window." Raymond Chandler from Farewell My Lovely.
Art It's time for another "Gem from the Pen" goofy art writing on goofier art. This installment from Janet Kutner, DMN: "an ironic collage from the '60's juxtaposes spools of thread in every conceivable color with the printed message, "By George, We've Got "Em" a conceptualist work from the same period, Violated by NYC Air, is a piece of handmade paper that he exposed to the elements while living in Manhattan... This triptych from 1972 is composed of airline luggage tags saved from Paul Harris' travels" As always, I am not making this stuff up!
Answer "Promiscuous seating" was seating at the dinner table (in the 1780's) where women were seated in between the men and vice versa.
Art of Dining Well Carlo Petrini, founder of the slow food movement, says we eat too fast. "We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: fast life.... May suitable doses of a guaranteed sensual pleasure and slow, long lasting enjoyment preserve us from the contagion of the multitude who mistake frenzy for efficiency."His organization has 60,000 members in 35 countries. (WPR)
Fashion "Too much revivalism is not helping fashion move forward. There is no more invention. There are still great couturiers though: Saint Laurent has always been a genius, although the press ignored him one day, celebrated him the next. I think there will be a new school of designers soon who will unblock fashion's status quo..." Azzedine Alaia
Stay Revolutionary!