Steve Hely's Blog, page 112

Let’s get comfortable

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Roundup of books I haven’t read all the way through but have in a crate in my garage

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Wow.

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PFC Albert Bullock took this one of the damaged Franklin.

My copy is pre-owned and comes already highlighted:[image error]

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I’ve always hated Hugo’s.  On acting technique:

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Geoffrey Blainey’s recipe for peach-tin eggs:

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Graeme Davison on the wrong side of the law in Melbourne:

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There are no wasted humans:

 

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from the boss Thomas Cleary:

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And finally, some Daily Drucker:

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History of theater

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Trying to help Filip and Fredrik out on their commedia del’arte question, I pull down my Oxford Illustrated History of the Theater.

There I learn the reason there are no female kabuki actresses:

The earliest kabuki performers were women, but later all roles, including female, were played by men.  This was because the government banned women from the stage in 1629, their policy being that nobody should follow more than one profession: this prevented women from being both prostitutes and actresses.

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Katsukawa Shunsho print I find on Invaluable

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source: ukiyo-e.org

Spring cleaning overturns

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JCO on Twitter

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a consistently wild experience.

At Hungry Cat

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© Andrew Stuart source

Ran into a bartender I’ve seen there before who greeted me by saying “Have you seen Logan yet?”

Good sentence

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from Jean Rhys wikipedia page:

After her father died, in 1910, Rhys appeared to have experimented with the prospect of living as a demimondaine.

This period in the life of Bob Marley

In 1966, Marley married Rita Anderson, and moved near his mother’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware in the United States for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant, under the alias Donald Marley

The War Between Mochi and Sake

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Ametora

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Strong endorse to my bud Dave Marx’s book.

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Would love to see a doc about the Farleys, who bought classic jeans across the heartland and sold them to Japan.

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