Boardom
A Leonardo the Pig comic directed by Huck (he came up with the movie ‘Boarhood’)
Skeletons in the Closet
I found out something about my maternal grandfather, the psychiatrist Ralph S. Banay (who I never knew…) today as I was researching Margaret Wise Brown’s Freudian analyst (Robert Bak) for my comic. Bak was a Hungarian emigre and lived in NYC. I was casually wondering if there was a chance my grandfather Ralph, who also was …
The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds
For my research on the Margaret Wise Brown comic I had to have this book, written in 1950. Her publisher was less than enthusiastic about it but by this time Brown was so successful she was able to push it through. It is an odd tale. The book is dedicated to Michael Strange, who was Brown’s girlfriend …
First read of 2015
His real motive was one of the strongest known to humanity, the need to torment himself. – The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald (1995)
Two Days One Night
The most notable part of Marion Cotillard’s performance in Two Days One Night is her walk. She careens through the film in a hunched propulsion embodying a character trying to save her job. It’s a brisk, beaten down, anxious walk of someone who is desperate and stretched nearly to her breaking point. I like the film a lot …
Climate Change
Another Country
I had a thought while walking home from our James Baldwin book club last night… how I’d love to see see this movie:
Another ‘to do’:
Put it on the list
Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover
The Field Guide to Office Plants book has arrived.
Do not water
How great is this plant and the note in the pot! This was at the Barnard greenhouse. I was visiting the campus to see the gallery & then to find a little inspiration at the greenhouse. A Field Guide to Office Plants will be part of the Barnard 125th anniversary alumnae show: Lucid Gestures: An Exhibition …
So much depends on
The other day I was reading a book about a book about the coral reef. I was struck by a sentence suggesting that the health of the coral reef depends in a small part on the fact that the glass eel (pearl fish) gets protection nestled inside the anus of a cucumber. How wonderful! …