"Nota Vanilla Bene:

"It sounds Queer to me."
~ Annie Tinkle

"Not to me ~ !"
~ Mr. Winkle

"And when at Night ~ Our good Day done ~
I guard My Master's Head ~
'Tis better than the Eider ~Duck's
Deep Pillow ~ to have shared ~

To foe of His ~ I'm deadly foe ~
None stir the second time ~
On whom I lay a Yellow Eye ~
Or an emphatic Thumb ~

Though I than He ~ may longer live
He longer must ~ than I ~
For I have but the power to kill,
Without ~ the power to die ~"
~ Emily Dickinson

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/loadedgun/

"O,
.... but does it
Really matter ~ ?"
~ Dana Point

http://www.nea.gov/chairman/gioia-bio.html

~ * ~

"The art world was fortunate that it was Jesse
Helms instead of someone with more credibility
And standing in the Congress
Making these arguments."

~ John Frohnmayer,

Quoted message said:

From "Leaving Town Alive"

[p. 44]

"Huh ~ ?"
~ Twittering

"Let's build a funeral pyre
Out of the desiccated conventions
Piled around us

And watch the ancient, spangle ~ feathered,
Unkillable phoenix rise

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From the ashes."

~ Dana Gioia,

Quoted message said:

From "Can Poetry Matter?"

1991

http://www.danagioia.net/essays/ecpm.htm

~ * ~

"This is why cross ~ posting is great ~
That is because my poasting rate has been very poor.

Busy time of year
An' all that."
~ Baron P. Parsnip of Formaldehyde

"April is the cruelest month."
~ Folly

~ * ~

The Grillage
.... Inc.

A Very Fine Eatery, Drinkery,
& Quaint Curiosity ~

West Edge Off Center, en Morning Wood

~ * ~

"Grrrrr ~ !

When's a growl only a maniacal
Menacing Meow ~ !"
~ Grail,
A Grillage

"In the room of Vermeer."
~ Blanc Toad

"UBIQUITOUS, ESOTERIC, OXYMORON,
SERENDIPITY,
HUBRIS, OBSEQUIOUS,

And ECLECTIC ..."
~ Patek Phillipe

"Flub-a-dub, fourscore, frat rat, freight rate,
Frito Bandito, fuddy-duddy,
Funny money,

Gaggin' wagon,
Gator freighter, gender bender,
Gritz blitz, ground round, hanky ~ panky, harum ~ scarum,

Get a Head Start
On Hector The Collector ~ !"
~ Sir Cumference

"Hector The Collector sent urgent
Word,
Beware, be very, very wary ~

The heebie ~ jeebie(s), helter-skelter, hemidemisemiquaver,
Herky ~ jerky, hexaflexagon, higgledy piggledy,
Hipper ~ dipper, hobnob, hobson ~ jobson,

Hocus-pocus ~ !"
~ Merryvale

~ * Splash ~ !

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/Warhol-Oxidations-Post-Gagosian-2002.html

~ * ~

Twittering One said:

Andy Warhol [censored] Paintings * ~

In the 1970s Warhol produced a group of large oxidation paintings, so
called because they were created by pissing onto canvases prepared with
copper paint, the resulting patterns the effect of oxidation. Warhol
had friends create these, and he watched the young men [censored] on them to
create them........

Bill is getting an education today!

~ * ~

"Margaret was a great success at Miss [Beazely's]
Belief, where her taste in footwear quickly won
Her the nickname Bootise.

Bootisie was an excellent student
And demonstrated such a flair for barely audible
Breathing that she was unanimously elected
Chairman of the Spring Day Escape Committee.

This is not to say that Bootsie was a grind ~
Quite the contrary.
An irrepressible madcap ..."

~ Fran Lebowitz,

Quoted message said:

From "Breeding Will Tell:

A Family Treatment,"

Quoted message said:

From "Metropolitan Life"

[p. 22]

~ * ~

"Bill is getting an education today ~ !"
~ AB

"I know."
~ Kathleen Keibert-Gruen

"You know ANDY ~ ?"
~ Folly

"Bill is getting an education today ~ !"
~ AB

"I know."
~ Kathleen Keibert-Gruen

"You know ANDY ~ ?"
~ Folly

Twitty said:

An anecdote runs that Warhol had the men drink a particular type
of Mexican beer because it produced an effect he liked.

This detail, and the whole story, is interesting. I hadn't know about these
paintings. Now I'll forever wonder which beer. I also appreciate that your
link mentions one of my favorite artworks, Duchamp's "Fountain".

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The silkscreened portrait of Warhol's friend Jean-Michel Basquiat

See him in "downtown 81" aka "new york beat movie".

"Uncoil
Loop
Curl
Spiral
Twist
Twirl
Helix ..."
~ White Chalk

"Now I'll forever wonder which beer."
~ CP

"Corona."
~ Folly

"I also appreciate that your Ink mentions
One of my favorite artworks,
Duchamp's 'Fountain.'"
~ Cp

"Affording approach, view, passage
Or access because of the absence or removal of barriers,
Restriction, etc.; unobstructed; unconcealed;
Not secret or hidden: an open heart.
Expanded; unfolded: an open flower.
I revealed to her my fear, she revealed to me her need.

Afterward, we took a rest
And played a game involving a loop of string
Stretched in an intricate arrangement over the fingers
And then transferred to the other player's hands

In a changed form. To engage in sport or diversion;
Amuse oneself; frolic. To act or behave in a way
Not to be taken seriously. To make love sportively.

To move quickly or irregularly as if frolicking:
The lights played along the wall.

To discharge or be discharged freely ~ A fountain playing
In the square. To perform on a musical instrument.
To give forth musical sounds. To move or employ (a piece,
Card, etc.,) in a game. To decide a tie
By playing one more game."
~ Virginia Hooper,

Quoted message said:

From "The Lamentation"

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/dept/libdata/applications/ejournals/b/n-z/PMC/5/hooper.595

~ * ~

~ * ~
_________________________________________
*** A Morning Wood
Symphonic Sur ~ | ~ Sound Seduction ***
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~ ! * ~ A Morning Wood
Broadcast ~ * Bricoleur ~ ! *
_________________________________________
"... but O, Mr.
Cotter, sometimes, yes, one needs to shout!

Not to you, for you hear, O, so,
Well!?
~ Twittering

"It's about staying alert,
Keeping a conversation on track
And bringing in many voices.

It is not primarily about raising fists.
It's about extracting things from the world,
Gently, and then putting them back,
But with new meaning, like manipulated ready-mades.

Duchamp had a really good grasp of all this,
And he's still broadcasting.

Mr. Tiravanija, in his own different way,
Understands it, too.

Join this wire of mine
To that wire of yours to that wire of theirs.
And once we're connected,
The power goes on."

~ Holland Cotter,

Quoted message said:

From "Work Whose Medium Is Indeed

Its Message,"

Quoted message said:

From The New York Times

3.18.2005
_________________________________________
A Morning Wood Sonique Production
The Hemlock Overlook Concert Hall
Deep East Trail, Along Side Wading's Way
_________________________________________
* Dogging Arts * Fogging Minds * It's a Star *
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~ * ~

"Crack of lightening bestirs
A startle
Reflex ~

Cleft

Atmosphere cracks a porcelain bowl,
World, globe, cracks. The Untold.
Bodies bleeding in the hold, stench too fowl.
Hairline fracture, carved flesh, hatred etched historically,
Heuristically

Spills candy on the rug, cleaves Quark from Blind Sight,
Insight from Hours of Darkness, if by accent,
Riffle raffle interleaves intent
Or accident.

Or if sculptor's chisel too rudely strikes,
Too indecorously, clatter clamors

But, if circumspectly,
Eventually, out of Nothingness,
Captured Slaves sailing, shackled, mangled, chained
On a ship
Out of Africa.

Howls of pain shred tattered air ~

Flesh torn, tears too bitter, too darkly shed
Too deeply swallowed,
If buried, such sobbing sounds an ocean
Sinks without ear or survivor near ...

Spirit Unbound, from earthly body flown
Free from Cancerous Chaos,
Sorrow the Little Sand Crabs
Know
In a nutshell. Or

Marble unlocks, sets Spirit lose, at large,
A raging storm washes ravaged body ashore ~
A fugitive running fast, [censored] out South Carolina,
Alabama, or Georgia ...

An underground railway ferries fugitives

Quoted message said:

From Justice

North,
Hell on Earth.

The Exodus sparkles,
A decade bygone, if one day Jacob Lawrence
Unfolds upon a cardboard panel,
Brushes with tempura ~

A Tale of The Haarlem Renaissance,
It, too, a tale told by Laban Hill,
A story I would have told, too,
Had Laban not ~

A Quark yields Form
If signal proper, transcription's transduction,
If suitably seeded, your reservation,
A front row seat, your Action
Painting

A Morphic Field, from soil nurtured, toiled,
And tilled ...

Orphic Warbler meanders

Quoted message said:

From The Orthocenter of Orphrey

An osprey
Flies from orthogonally,
Aloft, wings over orthogonal projection ~

If Quantum Quoof quacks
Exactly right, an eggshell cracks,
Opens gates
To charm the socks off a grasshopper."
~ Crackles

"Howls of pain shred tattered air ~
No words. Etched sound, tear.
Codex of code vanishing, a story, hear ~ ?
If blackness swallows, a sparrow chants,
Chimes, if soul torn ..."
~ Mum