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I serendipitously ran across this 2002 article on George Loper’s site about graffiti artists in and around Charlottesville. It included some comments from erstwhile CHS principal Bobby Thompson: ‘It’s hard to break CHS tradition,’ he said of the wall between the school and the Charlottesville Performing Arts Center, a large collage of colorful signatures, or [...]
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I missed John Prine in Richmond last summer — hope I can catch him in the big lobster trap. Tickets go on sale May 4. Edit: I’ve added a video of “Fish and Whistle” to the sidebar.
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Well, folks, the response to the poll in my sidebar were less than overwhelming, but here are the results. Four people responded (thank you) — one of them was me. Half of us get our book recommendations from friends. The remaining fifty per cent were divided between The Internet and magazine book review sections. It’s [...]
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From the New Yorker: The obsession with burial and what to do with bodies when life has fled is a defining human trait, as much a subject of poetry and epic as love or jealousy or war. It is the central point of the Iliad: not Achilles’ wrath but Priam’s decision to go and beg [...]
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A new gallery at Shutterglass.com: Winter Corn. Constructive comments cheerfully accepted.
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