more voices from teh tower...
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lagilmanThe #1 reason never to move out of this neighborhood: My 'white man's bodega*,' where I can pick up a fresh-made sandwich, or a selection of imported cheeses, fresh organic produce, cat food, pistaccio gelato, Swedish lemon cookies, diet coke, or anything else I didn't know I needed until I walked in. Plus, fresh flowers and Jamiacan High Mountain coffee beans. Every writer should have one within walking distance. *nods firmly*
Work continues, despite being woken up at omfg early (even for me) by the sound of cats spatting at the top of their lungs. Not mine, although it took me a minute to realize that. The local bully-cat, a female black who is so bad-tempered even her owners are wary of her, had cornered another black cat from across the street, in our back yard. I leaned out the window and yelled "you!" The bully-cat looked up, and I snapped "go home!"
And she did.
The other black cat hung around for a few minutes, and then scampered. Hopefully she made it home without further incident.
Today is more overcast and cooler, but still humid. I wish it would rain. We need the rain.
EtA: Oh god. I need to slap this person:
"PARIS - Intruders entered the Orsay Museum early Sunday and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the French culture minister said.... A surveillance camera caught a group entering the museum, which houses a major collection of Impressionist art on the Left Bank of the French capital along the Seine River. An alarm sounded and the group left, but not before damaging an invaluable painting, "Le Pont d'Argenteuil," an aide to Culture Minister Christine Albanel said by telephone.
No arrests were immediately made.
Albanel told France-Info radio that the painting could be restored, but she deplored the attack on 'our memory, our patrimony.'"
*weeps for the sort of person who would do that*
And me, back to the do-it list.
*(so-called because the ethnic it carries is Italian rather than the Latin American I was used to in NYC, in case anyone was wondering/thinking me being weirdly PC)
Work continues, despite being woken up at omfg early (even for me) by the sound of cats spatting at the top of their lungs. Not mine, although it took me a minute to realize that. The local bully-cat, a female black who is so bad-tempered even her owners are wary of her, had cornered another black cat from across the street, in our back yard. I leaned out the window and yelled "you!" The bully-cat looked up, and I snapped "go home!"
And she did.
The other black cat hung around for a few minutes, and then scampered. Hopefully she made it home without further incident.
Today is more overcast and cooler, but still humid. I wish it would rain. We need the rain.
EtA: Oh god. I need to slap this person:
"PARIS - Intruders entered the Orsay Museum early Sunday and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the French culture minister said.... A surveillance camera caught a group entering the museum, which houses a major collection of Impressionist art on the Left Bank of the French capital along the Seine River. An alarm sounded and the group left, but not before damaging an invaluable painting, "Le Pont d'Argenteuil," an aide to Culture Minister Christine Albanel said by telephone.
No arrests were immediately made.
Albanel told France-Info radio that the painting could be restored, but she deplored the attack on 'our memory, our patrimony.'"
*weeps for the sort of person who would do that*
And me, back to the do-it list.
*(so-called because the ethnic it carries is Italian rather than the Latin American I was used to in NYC, in case anyone was wondering/thinking me being weirdly PC)
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Date: 2007-10-07 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-07 07:19 pm (UTC)NOOOO!!! FUCK! I'm crying now, dammit. DAMMIT! That's one of my favourite paintings ever! I couldn't begin to tell you why, since I don't know why. I've just loved it since the first time I saw it. When we were at the museum three years ago, I took a photo (yay, French museums for allowing photography) and use it as wallpaper on my work computer. Ohhhhhhh. Orsay are sure to have really topnotch restoration people; I hope they can repair it so it looks as good as ever. ::whimper::
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Date: 2007-10-07 07:47 pm (UTC)Here's one of the two photos I took.
Dunno if you remember, but we have a reproduction (purchased the same day the photo was taken) hanging in our living room. Now that I've looked at the photos of the original, I'm surprised to note that the frame the nice people at Artworld selected for us looks awfully close to the one the original is in.
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Date: 2007-10-07 10:36 pm (UTC)