2025.12.21
Testing One of Last Night's Ideas
2023.12.21
Pennypack Creek
2007.12.21
Family Farm in New Nation
Looks like the farm one of my Lauf grandfather's older brothers settled is now just within the Lakota Sioux Nation of Indians.
Golden Valley, North Dakota "Pass the Peace Pipe."
2004.12.21
Philadelphia Museum of Art
1999.12.21
speaking of the devil... [a reenactment]
John [Young] wrote and wondered:
I'll look into the fried dates Brian discovered. However soothseer s-lauf probably has a more devilish numerical explanation.
Creepy picture of mephistophelean Donald Trump with Muschamp's (swan?) song to himself today in the NY Times. Warhol seduced Muschamp into coming to NYC from Penn. Did you know that Steve? Do you care? Now that the world as we wished it was is near the end of time.
Steve responds:
Since I live in a [Philadelphia] zip code that The New York Times won't home deliver to (even though they occasionally call me and ask for my subscription), whatever Muschamp writes (so far) is of little consequence to me. Moreover, its many, many years since I've been spoon fed.
If I read any newspaper, it's really only occasionally The Olney Times, and, to my surprise, my local neighborhood weekly newspaper sometimes actually delivers 'news' that even Muschamp can't beat in terms of "beyond architecture". Here's a front page item from last Thursday's Olney Times:
'Altars' and icons found in the park
During another in a series of regular clean-ups at Tacony Creek Park, volunteers from the Friends of Tacony Creek Park [of which lauf-s is a high standing member; they wanted me to be their president, but my sporadic (literally schizophrenic) schedule made me decline] discovered what could be described as a makeshift "altar" adorned with icons and small statutes, where a worship service may have taken place. These items were found at several locations inside the park, they said.
Now, I have to confess that I had nothing to do with these 'reenactionary' worship sites, and thus be aware that metabolic does not automatically mean diabolic (but I may find room for becoming diametabolic, and I might even design an altar to that effect -- ha!).
be it ever so humble... (you can guess the rest)
lauf-s
1983.12.21
detail of Hey Art Picasso How's Your Brother Dick?
detail of Hey Art Picasso How's Your Brother Dick?
detail of Hey Art Picasso How's Your Brother Dick?
1967.12.21
1967. Thursday, New York City
...in the evening Monique Fong and her husband Klaus Wust call to see the Duchamps at 28 West 10th Street.
In the midst of a happy, relaxed conversation there is a lull and Duchamp suddenly asks: "Who is going to die next year?"
No one speaks. He continues: "Last year it was Breton, this year Magritte, next year--"
Klaus interrupts him with a lighthearted remark, but it is not enough to dispel their fears.
Ephemerides
1965.12.21
1965. Tuesday, New York City
Further to his telegram the previous day, Duchamp makes an appointment by telephone to see Evan Turner at 3 o'clock on 5 January.
Ephemerides
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