Hi, all, Just checked out that Yahoo link that Colin listed (he asked "Is this a joke or what?"). I think it's either a joke, or a painfully obvious attempt on the part of someone (I hate to say a 3-letter organization, but who knows?) to see if they can snag some people sypathetic to OBL. (By the way, has anyone else noticed that his name is variously spelled with an O or a U, and Laden is sometimes spelled with an "i" where the "e" is here.)
Robert and I just got our pictures back from our trip, including a couple from the beach at Newport, RI. We discovered that there was a showing of sculpture built up of found objects, driftwood, etc. One, called "Surrender" shows a figure made of found wood in a position of surrender (kneeling on the sane with his hands up); another, a wall with a bend in it made out of I don't know what, reads: O Great Safety, Protect us from life. We relinquish all common sense, personal responsibility, spirit of adventure and risk. We bask in thy litigious glow. May thy concern permeate every object in our world. The beach show was dated from some date in September to sometime in November (I know, I should have written it down, but I had no pen or paper with me), but it's interesting to think whether any of the pieces were affected by 9/11. I think not, given how long it takes to put together a piece from concenption to execution, which makes these two pieces all the more interesting. Re: The book disease. I have it big time. I even joined the Folio Society (of Cambridge Publishing) right before I left for R.I., then forgot about it until I got this huge package from them today. A wonderful four-vol. collection about ancients cultures (Hittites, Babylonians, Egyptians and Persians), and a Biographical dictionary which *did* list Joni (with only minor errors), but didn't list Laura Nyro, *did* list Paul Simon, but not Carly Simon, etc. So probabvly no good for musical figures, but okay for historical/literary figures. But I do have a lot of books of all kinds, and *like* it -- not that there's anything wrong with that... Smiles, Walt
