2026.05.17
it works nicely here
a way to keep secrets secret, I suppose
2025.05.17
451 Rhawn Gallery
  
details of Rainbow's Anatomy Lesson The Day You Were Absent
Where you can look over a map of the Lenni Lenape infrastructure that is still in use throughout Philadelphia and beyond.
   
Saturday evening parting shots.
2024.05.17
Why I Really Like Taking Apart Old Art Auction Catalogs
2016.05.17
First state and second state of the Ichnographia Campus Martius side by side...
 
It remains a mystery as to why Piranesi changed all the circuses into an identical form, [and] the identical circus form is the only clue.
2020.05.17
2D CAD data
20051703.db hyperarchitecturism iqq19 plan development
2007.05.17
lost endings
Barnabas uses the I Ching wands to try and find out who killed Quentin. Barnabas and Magda find the portrait of Quentin as the werewolf and deduct it has cured Quentin. Petofi tells Edward where he can find Barnabas, and gives him a gun with silver bullets. Barnabas enters the I Ching trance.
...and that's just one of 1245 episodes.
2006.05.17
PHILADELPHIA!!
...I have to go to PNC, the quondam Olney Federal Savings whose early 1960s rebuilding is a reenactment of an early Mies van der Rohe unbuilt project for a brick country house, 1923. Virtually no one else but me sees this, but I'll bet you anything that's what the architect(s) looked at.
[Also, remember this is the same bank where I was enamored with floor plans in a mortgage brochure picked up off a genuine Barcelona coffee table.]
2004.05.17
Re: Papers of the HTAFCC
Otto is indeed the key of "my Rita Novel idea." He is such an unknown.
I watched Vanilla Sky for the first time last night. I saw an interesting blurring of the real and the virtual.
My brother Otto was in a drug induced coma for about two weeks after his [two?] lobotomy 20 March 1980 (his car under a truck accident on the Schuylkill Expressway and my 24th birthday). It took about nine months after that for the schizophrenia to come back. [Years later I deduced that the brain operation(s) was(/were) performed to delete the sensation of pain within the right side of my brother's body.]
Otto, the great virtual King of Bavaria, was a very tortured soul. His body was his real cage.
My brother Otto said some strange (and obviously memorable) things to me when he was at Friends Hospital for the first time back in 1976.
In 1971, soon after Otto got his first car (a VW Beetle), he took me to 'Stokesbury Mansion' (sic). He knew I really liked architecture, and he too knew good architecture when he saw it. Otto and I made many trips to Whitemarsh Hall. In fact, he was the one that helped me rip off some of the marble wall paneling that enveloped Mr. Stotesbury's bathroom. [One panel now has Anonymous Saint In Bikini While Jesus Is Walking On Water (1983) painted on it.] I have some old Super-8 movie film with Otto walking on the parapets of Whitemarsh Hall, a scene remarkably similar to Charles and Sebastian walking on the roof of Castle Howard in Brideshead Revisited.
       
Edward Townsend Stotesbury suddenly died in the grand foyer of Whitemarsh Hall 66 years ago yesterday [16 May 1938]. You could say that was the beginning of the end of 'the Versailles of America.'
El Mirasol, etc.
Eva Stotesbury died 31 May 1948 at El Mirasol, the E.T. Stotesbury residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
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21 May 1502 -- the discovery of St. Helena Island
21 May 1938 -- the death of Edward T. Stotesbury
30 May 1640 -- the death of Pieter Pauwel Rubens
31 May 1951 -- the death of Cardinal Dennis Dougherty
Not too long ago, I noticed that Ned and Eva Stotesbury were married 18 January 1912, i.e., King of Prussia Day.
Q: What does El Mirasol mean?
A: Sunflower
1985.05.17
Suspect Composites
details of Suspect Composites
details of Suspect Composites
1950.05.17
1950. Wednesday, New York City
Walter Arensberg has already had conversations about the collection with officials of the National Gallery. On reception of a telegram from Arensberg requesting him to postpone his meeting with Duncan Phillips in Washington until he has received his letter, Marcel cables back: "Have not yet arranged appointment waiting for your letter."
In addition to proposals from the Metropolitan [26.4.1950], earlier discussions with Philadelphia [6.5.1949], and those with Chicago which were terminated [3.1.1950], the Arensbergs have now also been approached by Dallas and Mexico City.
Ephemerides
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