2024.11.13
451 Rhawn Gallery
After an Old York Road Historical Society lecture at Abington Friends Meeting House
2022.11.13
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
13 November 2022 Sunday
Part of finishing Ancient Circuses includes imagining how Piranesi may have continued working on Ancient Circuses if he hadn't died 9 November. With the plans of the Circus Maximus and all the circuses of the Campo Marzio now fixed, Piranesi's attention may then have turned to the Circus of Caracalla, while Francesco etched the Palace of the Caesars plan next to the Circus Maximus, and performed more field survey works at the Circus of Elagabalus. Furthermore, would Piranesi himself have ultimately figured out that the Circus of Caracalla is really the Circus of Maxentius? Who knows?
In reality, Francesco published his large plan of the Circus of Caracalla circa 1786, and his plans of the Palace of the Caesars in 1787.
 
2021/2025.11.13
 
selfie, then corrected
2019.11.13
19111301.db iqq27 plan development
2010.11.13
Rainmakers Share Your Tips
I like the part about you showing businesses "a better way of doing things" and then asking others here to show you a better way of doing things. That's a rare talent right there.
2005.11.13
Philadelphia
Amman [Jordan] is the site of the biblical Rabbath Ammon, though apart from some tombs excavated in the vicinity there are practically no remains of the ancient town. It was at the gate of Rabbath Ammon that Uriah the Hittite was placed in the forefront of the battle by order of David to meet his death. In Hellenistic times Ptolemy Philadelpus (283-246 B.C.) captured and rebuilt the city, renaming it Philadelphia, by which name it was known in Roman and Byzantine times. It was one of the cities of the Decopolis.
Encyclopedia Britannica
2000.11.13
memories of desire?
I wanted to rent Paris, Texas, but it was out, so I rented Spetters and Ulysses' Gaze.
In watching Spetters (14 years since I last did so) I have to report the mistakes I made in my last post about that film. What's funny is the types of mistakes my memory made.
The boys are all 20 years old, (not teenagers). The farmer father does not chase his son on a tractor, rather pulls the "whore of Babylon's" Chevy Impala (I was right about that) out of a roadside ditch that the farmer's son stupidly backed into. The 'puritanical', farmer father does routinely beat his son, however (and the son has a definite sado-masochistic streak to him--he gets himself 'coiled up' in the 'sub-plot' within the under-construction subway).
 
Only two of the boys are amateur racers, while the farmer's son is an auto mechanic at the gas station.
And here's my favorite memory mistake: it is not extra long hot-dogs that are the most popular item at the "whore's" luncheon business, rather it is 'croquettes' (or something spelled like that) which, unknown to the customers, are made of canned dog food. [Obviously serving the question, "is real fast food actually any better?"]
Overall, I was correct that Spetters is a nimiety of vehicles. It's like Two for the Road on multiple steroids.
After now being well re-acquainted with both films, what's really interesting is the difference the 1970s made. The change in 'style' from Two for the Road (1967) to Spetters (1980) is very noticeable, and the fact that both films are 'vehicular' heightens the changes. There is one very weird coincidence between the two films, however. The station wagon in Spetters is also driven by a family (husband, wife, a boy and a girl), and the hero of the film has his paralyzing motorcycle accident because the husband in the station wagon throws a bag of orange peels out the car window while he's driving. Perhaps it really isn't odd that the station wagon and the nuclear family come to represent conformity in both films, but they also come to represent the 'death' of the free (wheeling) spirit.
 
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