The Slog

Zoe Strauss Ten Years at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Valerie Palmer — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:29:12 +0000

Vanessa, Philadelphia, 2006 by Zoe Strauss

Even more Iceland

Valerie Palmer — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:35:04 +0000

Somewhere near Grettislaug, Iceland

Eve Arnold, 1912-2012

Valerie Palmer — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:50:36 +0000

Richard Burton And Elizabeth Taylor at the local pub in Shepperton, UK, 1963, Eve Arnold

More Iceland

Valerie Palmer — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:19:45 +0000

An old boat, Reykjavik

Double Trouble: Heti & Gaitskill

Valerie Palmer — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:42:54 +0000

I just stumbled across a really lovely interview between Mary Gaitskill and Sheila Heti in The Believer. I love Heti’s comments about one of Gaitskill’s stories:

I love the story “Mirrorball” in your recent collection. I can’t stop thinking about the boy’s soul and the girl’s soul. It’s almost like a great new myth of what goes on between women and men who have sex with each other. It’s almost a perfect crystallization of one of the things you communicate in your writing—that there is so much going on in our humanity that we aren’t aware of, and our lack of care and sensitivity is a kind of tragedy, a tragedy of coarseness which diminishes us, though we are not exactly to blame.

You can read the interview in its entirety here.

That thing

Valerie Palmer — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:22:33 +0000

I came across a spread in a 2002 issue of Dune magazine by artists Ed Templeton, Thomas Campbell, Chris Johanson and Susan Cianciolo paying homage to Margaret Kilgallen, who passed away in 2001. Here’s Chris Johanson’s piece…….

Chris Johanson

Thanks.

Valerie Palmer — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:00:50 +0000

Thanksgiving 2011

Cooper & Gorfer

Valerie Palmer — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:36:50 +0000

Cooper & Gorfer

Occupy LA

Valerie Palmer — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:37:19 +0000

photo by valerie palmer

Finally!

Valerie Palmer — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:31:00 +0000

International Day of Action: October 15

If you are in Los Angeles, please come out this Saturday and support the Occupy Wall Street movement with a march from City Hall through the financial district.

Saturday, October 15, 2011 – 10:00am

City Hall

200 N. Spring Street

Los Angeles

Some say meet up at City Hall, others say meet up at Pershing Square. Here’s the info from the Occupy LA web site:

10:00 AM meet-ups at both Pershing Square and the South side of LA City Hall. Join together at 11:30 at Pershing Square for 12:00 rallly and march!! We are marching from Pershing Square at 12:00 noon through the financial district (via Spring Street) in solidarity with our brothers and sisters occupying worldwide.