The Eastside View

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

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Charles Shere, poet

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I have written a new poem, as follows: An ardent point Supernatural as a point, more supernatural than evolution Natural as an organism, mor...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Time-Based Art

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L AST WEEK IN P ORTLAND we attended three events in PICA's Time-Based Art festival . PICA is the Portland Institute for Contemporary Ar...
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Shameless self-promotion

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L ISTENING TO CAGE , by way of his Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras , made me think to check out Feldman, so I went to E-Music to download...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Ashland 4: Two American Classics

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Portland— W E SAW SEVEN PLAYS in six days last week at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, only once having to squeeze in two perfor...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

That walk across the French Alps…

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A S MANY OF YOU KNOW , I spent ten days in June and most of July walking from Evian-les-Bains to Nice with my grandson Henry and my friend K...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Othello and Coriolanus in Ashland

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Portland— T WO DIFFICULT TRAGEDIES — difficult from the point of view of successful production, I mean, not posing intellectual difficultie...

Ashland: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Portland— W E ENDED OUR WEEK at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland with an aftenoon performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream , ...
Sunday, September 07, 2008

The Comedy of Errors in Ashland

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Ashland, Oregon— S ATURDAY: TWO PLAYS yet to see, one of them a Midsummer Night's Dream to which I don't quite look forward, havin...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Further on the long walk

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photo: Henry Shere P RELIMINARY STATISTICS , slightly revised: Elevation change: 51,300 meters, roughly, or about 167,000 feet, which is abo...
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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Eating every one of those days

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A TENTATIVE LISTING of the meals (chiefly dinners) eaten during our Long Walk, June 20-July 28, and the week or so following while on vaca...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Ending the Alpwalk

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W E WALKED INTO THE SEA yesterday, ending our long walk across the French Alps. Well, not really, of course; the boots have been too good t...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Nice, provisionally

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Well we are here in Nice, but not quite: we haven't really finished the walk. Increasingly we find it hard to find a bed; and after 20 m...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Day 21: Bramans

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W ELL, WE DIDN'T GET FAR today. It's hot and a little humid and I think somehow being down here in a valley instead of up there in ...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Lanslebourg

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F IRST, A CORRECTION to the previous blog: as Thérèse pointed out, a better URL for the photos is here . We are now in Lanslebourg, in the...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

photos

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You can see a few photos taken a week or so ago at http://www.flickr.com/photos/14329090@N04/sets/72157606041033930/
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Bonneval sur Arc

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Bonneval-sur-Arc We crested the highest pass we'll be on on this entire walk today, and it was remarkably easy. The Col d'Iseran is ...
Monday, July 07, 2008

Day 14: Refuge de la Croix-Bonhomme

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A DAY OF RAIN, our first. Oh well. We left a nice cheap hotel in Les Contamines aty about 8 am, walking a delightful road along the bonnant ...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Day 8, Samoens

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IMAGINE TWO LITTLE dots on the "e" in Samoens, whose final "s" is silent. (Like the "p" in "swimming,...

Days 8-12, from Les Contamines

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LONG TIME SINCE contact; sorry. And now once again I work on an unfamiliar keyboard at a slow connection. The weather has been cooperative; ...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Day 5; 6; 7: Samoens

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APOLOGIES FIRST: for the double send of the lqst dispqtch; qnd for the odd spelling here! I am using a French keyboard; and the sun is in my...
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