Gurldoggie

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Mushrooms

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Back in Seattle. It's a far cry from the beaches of southern Mexico, but at least you can say this for my hometown - it's a good pla...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Happy Days

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As you read this, I am currently laying on the beach on Mexico's Pacific Coast, watching the waves come in. Or maybe I'm already in ...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Missing Links

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There's just too much internet out there. You know as well as me, it's impossible to keep up. So instead of trying to write about th...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Something Out Of Something

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You have three more weeks to submit a work of art inspired by the writing of by Israeli short story writer, filmmaker, and graphic novelist,...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Valentine

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by John Ashberry Like a serpent among roses, like an asp Among withered thornapples I coil to And at you. The name of the castle is you, El ...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Afrika Bambaataa in the 206

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206 Zulu is the local chapter of the Universal Zulu Nation , and the Northwest hip-hop organization ne plus ultra. The Zulu Nation was the ...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Films of Nicholas Ray

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In 1971, Hollywood director Nicholas Ray was broke and took a teaching job at the State University of New York at Binghamton . His last fil...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Monster by Mail

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Since 2007, illustrator Len Peralta has been drawing personalized monster portraits for anyone who is willing to name one and cough up $50...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Nobody Beats the Drum

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Sasquatch , the annual music festival at the Gorge ampitheatre, has announced their line-up . Some of the bands listed are intriguing, and w...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska , the Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Wednesday in Krakow. She was 88 years old. Szymbors...
Friday, February 3, 2012

The Diamonds are Everywhere

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"In my life, that's what I want to be able to do with art, is to point out to everybody: 'There's just a fog over what you...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Three Quarks for Muster Mark!

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Today is the birthday of James Joyce, born February 2, 1882. Joyce is, of course, the most tortured and most influential of all 20th Century...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Things to Worry About

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In 1933, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie with a list of things to worry about, not worry abo...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

In the Mail

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Despite a life-long love for the mail, I don't send or receive too many letters these days. You? I thought not. Puppeteer and sci-fi aut...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Flicks for the Kids

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Winter's dragging on, but the snow holiday is long over. Perfect timing for the annual Children's Film Festival Seattle , starting t...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Václav Havel

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By Václav Havel in his 2005 memoir " To the Castle and Back ": I’m running away. I’m running away more and more. I find various e...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Documentos

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Astounding. Whether or not you speak Spanish, you must spend some time at the incredible new website for the International Center for the Ar...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Inventory

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by Richard Hoffman What I have given to sorrow, though I have poured out all I am again and again, does not amount to much. One winter’s sno...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Manage Workflow

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Remarkable new work from New York artist Specter . This is part of his "Manage Workflow" series that celebrates New York's mar...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Wain Cats

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Weird and compelling short article in Scientific American about artist and psychiatric patient Louis Wain , who lived and painted in Englan...
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Gurldoggie
Seattle, Washington
A native of upstate New York and a Seattle resident for 151 months, I am neither a Gurl nor a Dogg. Nor can I claim to be Gurldogg. Confused? So am I.
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