The Eastside View

travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Fernet Branca

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photo: Rome, January 2004 A H, FERNET BRANCA . The first time we traveled in Europe, in 1974, we traveled with another couple, who we met in...
Monday, July 23, 2007

The Anxiety of Influence; the reward of contentment

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Y ES, IT'S ONE of the couple hundred books in the case of Books Waiting To Be Read: Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence . Lou H...
Sunday, July 22, 2007

Dry Time

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T HEY SAY OURS IS a "Mediterranean climate," meaning wet winter, dry summer. We had just under a tenth of an inch of rain on Tues...
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Friday, July 20, 2007

Cenozoic Time; objective poetics

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I WROTE ABOUT Michael Kincaid's little book Solar Margins here a few months ago, and the other day a letter arrived from him, with a ...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

Mortal fallacies

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T WO INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS are going on within my user group (NCMUG, the North Coast Macintosh Users' Group). One concerns archival...
Saturday, July 07, 2007

“That’s one...”

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N OTHING MORE INTERESTING than the intersection of ethical quandary with practical quandary. Case in point: Eating in a restaurant (whose n...
Saturday, June 30, 2007

Back to the books

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Book conversation (among other matters) with two friends led me to look at recent reading notes in the PDA, among which this: 42 (?) affecti...
Sunday, June 24, 2007

Eating and Playgoing in Ashland

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tuna-bean salad, Pasta Piatti, Ashland O UR ANNUAL WEEK IN ASHLAND , with three other couples, eating, going to plays, talking: Monday, June...
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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Eating in Portland

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Fried egg and greens, Toro Bravo N INE DAYS IN PORTLAND but only four restaurants and two bakeries to report—and that in a cursory manner, ...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

PORTLAND again

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Giraffe riding bicycle, Portland, June 2007 P ORTLAND ALWAYS THROWS something unexpected at you. After having spent so many years in Berkel...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

What are we up to?

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Tearing down the fallen-down barn Y ES, IT'S BEEN a long time. We flew home from The Netherlands May 2; spent a night in San Francisco;...
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

21 "To the Queen!"

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Little girl playing the bassoon, Amsterdam other photos: April 3-7: Leerdam-Buren April 7-11: Buren-Ochten April 11-15: Ochten-Wyler Apri...

20 Leaving Apeldoorn

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De Kaasplank, Apeldoorn other photos: April 3-7: Leerdam-Buren April 7-11: Buren-Ochten April 11-15: Ochten-Wyler April 15-18: Beek, Apel...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

19 Walking again

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Bospad near Nunspeet other photos: April 3-7: Leerdam-Buren April 7-11: Buren-Ochten April 11-15: Ochten-Wyler April 15-18: Beek, Apeldoo...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

18 Give is a good girl; grab is a bad one

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Anneke's green beans and tomatos other photos: April 3-7: Leerdam-Buren April 7-11: Buren-Ochten April 11-15: Ochten-Wyler April 15-1...
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