Greymatters (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Congratulations to Joe Biden for surviving his debate with Sarah Palin, the Gertrude Stein-styled robot wannabe of politics. She was beyond incoherent, babbling and throwing random buzzwords into her speech when she hadn’t a clue what she was talking about, which was often. Since Palin’s responses reminded me of a bad parody of the work [...]
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
I f good friends help you bury the bodies, then the French war criminal who escaped a prison hospital on this day had some very good friends indeed. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas had every right to feel uneasy when the German Army rolled into Paris in 1940. They were Jewish lesbians whose salon and friendships with modern "degenerative" artists such as Picasso should have put them on top of the...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Bill Mehlman of AFSI reminds us all of what Ehud Olmert has forgotton. Judea and Samaria, according to the Americans, is "critical terrain". As he writes: Nobody There But Us Facts On The Ground William Mehlman “There is no ‘there’ there,” Gertrude Stein famously remarked of her Oakland, California birthplace. The “there,” whose thereness is conjectural at best in the minds of half the Israeli populace,...
World Hum (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Many travelers know Belleville as the Paris neighborhood where they can find Pere Lachaise cemetery. I recall riding the metro out there more than a decade ago, like every other college kid with a Let’s Go, to check out the tombstones of Jim Morrison and Gertrude Stein. But what I didn’t appreciate at the time was that Belleville was also the home of singer Edith Piaf. As the AP points out in a fine...
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
S he was an idiosyncratic writer and collector of artists from Allegheny, Penn. She was a 27-year-old spinster from San Francisco. But when, Gertrude Stein met Alice B. Toklas in Paris, it was love at first sight. Matisse had brought them together. In 1906, Alice had been taking care of her father and his house since her mother died, when they were visited by Gertrude's brother, Michael, and his wife....
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
... Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein Meet Cute (1907) . I notice that today is the anniversary of the birth of James Hilton .
Slog (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Guy's Lit Wire has a list of the 5 Most Hardcore Writers of All Time . #2 is Thoreau: But wait, you say. Thoreau was a pacifist. He wouldn't hurt a potato beetle. (Literally. When gardening, he picked the pests off his plants by hand and carried them out to the woods.) He's not hardcore! But there are many roads to hardcore-dom, my friends. Thoreau took a rather meandering path, but he got there....
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
... Andy Warhol and Gertrude Stein .
Seattle Wine Blog (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Gertrude Stein said that, but not all roses are created equal. So many Rose wines are flat, boring and too sweet. Not the one made by French winemaker Isabelle Dutartre at De Ponte Cellars in the Dundee Hills of Oregon's Willamette Valley. When Deborah tasted this one she was blown away. "Better than any French Rose, I've ever tasted." Of course, this comment encompassed all other Rose, too. Deborah...
Morocco Travel Information (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
LEAD: The rain began to fall just a few hours after Henri Matisse installed himself in the Hotel Villa de France in Tangier at the end of January, 1912. For days it poured. ''Shall we ever see the sun in Morocco ?'' the artist complained in a letter to Gertrude Stein after his first week. The rain began to fall just a few hours after Henri Matisse installed himself in the Hotel Villa de France in...
Democracy for Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Thanks to all who participated with Democracy for Pittsburgh including: Allegheny County ACORN, Gertrude Stein Club, League of Young Voters, the local Obama 08 Campaign, PennFuture, Sierra Club Allegheny Group, Steel City Stonewall Democrats, Vote Allegheny and Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Tonya Payne (and any group who I may have accidently left out).
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Let me wax pedantic (who, me?) a moment concerning the phrase "there is no there there", penned by Gertrude Stein in regard to Oakland, California (as Kathy points out), Miss Stein's birth city. It has become one of the most commonly used put-downs, implying a lack of substance and smarts to the recipient of the description. Gertrude made the comment after returning to Oakland after residing for d
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
McCain may not rally a trial, but there's there there that could plausible be commander-in-chief of a nation at war (really, we are, remember? It's not just over there.) More of a Gertrude Stein/Irving Berlin mashup. Come to think of it, that's not a bad description of her prose style in general.
bigYELLOWbowl (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
It's official, the bigYELLOWbowl corporate offices have moved to Terre Haute, IN. And yes, despite what you might think and Gertrude Stein might say: there is too a there, there. So, I'll still be reporting on food finds, dining out, recipes and all of things that makes a kitchen so much fun. I've been very busy with the move, but promise to start posting again very soon. I know you can look forward...
The Blog Herald (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer Have you lost your common sense with all the information attacking your head every day? While the normal person going about their daily work and life is bombarded by information, bloggers actually seek even more - making their [...]
