Just a quickie: Last night at VSC 6 artists/painters/visual artists showed slides  and spoke briefly of their work. All of them were impressive and interesting and thought-provoking. I loved hearing about process and goals and intents, and seeing the varied forms of art– whether paint, wood, computer-generated, poured, poked. One really moved me: Matt McConville [...]

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I was trying to come up with a good title, and was going to call this 2nd night, etc, but it’s really the 3rd night here of the 2nd full day. So, VSC 2. I think i’ll probably start just numbering the posts. I don’t think i’ll be able to do them every night once [...]

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I’ll skip all the stuff about my delayed bus, yadda yadda. I’m fried from sitting at the computer for much of the day– so i’m just going to just say a few words and post some pictures. But i’m having an awesome time, meeting such cool people. Every meal I meet someone new and usually [...]

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Lordy, I can’t believe tomorrow, 7:45 a.m., I leave for my January residency in Vermont at VSC. Can’t believe the day is already (almost) here. The photo on the left is one of the buildings  but imagine it with snow and the river frozen. Fun! I think i’m ready. Today we went out and bought [...]

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In Boston until Sunday, when I go to Vermont. Lovely here– snow fell yesterday and we went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. I misread the website for the museum– thinking that the Costumes of Edith Head was an exhibit, when in fact it is a film series. So we walked around the [...]

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Ted and I are leaving Monday night, taking a red-eye to Boston. We’ll be there for New Year’s and then on the 3rd of January I go to Vermont– the Vermont Studio Center– for a month writing residency in January 2010 (yipes–just a week away). I’m going to try to do a few blogs while [...]

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Isn’t the word ‘journal’ sometimes a VERB? Like, ‘to journal’? I couldn’t find it online, just this from Merriam Webster: Main Entry: jour·nal Pronunciation: \ˈjər-nəl\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, service book containing the day hours, from Anglo-French jurnal, from jurnal, adjective, daily, from Latin diurnalis, from diurnus of the day, from dies day — [...]

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So i’m on this contest kick lately. I’ve never been one to enter contests– not really. I think i’ve bought lotto tickets three times in my entire life. I rarely buy raffle tickets unless it’s for a good cause. The last thing I won was a Chippendale’s Puzzle playing gay bingo in the East Village [...]

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Ted’s been away over a week and i’m going stir crazy! Thankfully he is coming home tonight. It was only a week, I know, but when it’s just me and the kitties it gets a little weird. I wonder what he’s going to do when i’m in Vermont for a month doing my writer’s residency? [...]

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