I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE!

About Me

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The days are beautiful
The days are beautiful.
I know what days are.
The other is weather.

I know what weather is.
The days are beautiful.
Things are incidental.
Someone is weeping.

I weep for the incidental.
The days are beautiful.
Where is tomorrow?
Everyone will weep.

Tomorrow was yesterday.
The days are beautiful.
Tomorrow was yesterday.
Today is weather.

The sound of the weather
Is everyone weeping.
Everyone is incidental.
Everyone weeps.

The tears of today
Will put out tomorrow.
The rain is ashes.
The days are beautiful.

The rain falls down.
The sound is falling.
The sky is a cloud.
The days are beautiful.

The sky is dust.
The weather is yesterday.
The weather is yesterday.
The sound is weeping.

What is this dust?
The weather is nothing.
The days are beautiful.
The towers are yesterday.

The towers are incidental.
What are these ashes?
Here is the hate
That does not travel.

Here is the robe
That smells of the night
Here are the words
Retired to their books

Here are the stones
Loosed from their settings
Here is the bridge
Over the water

Here is the place
Where the sun came up
Here is a season
Dry in the fireplace.

Here are the ashes.
The days are beautiful.

-Ann Lauterbach
The Velvet Underground (as seen by Robert Cuoghi)

Below is an old photo of my Grandmother with Orson Wells on the set of "Citizen Kane."
The Stonewall Rebellion
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My Interests

I am crushing your brain.

Because you can't tell by looking at me.

I'd like to meet:

Eleanor Roosevelt, Bobby Kennedy, Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner, August Wilson, Edward Albee, Kathrine Hepburn, Ernest Hemmingway, Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein and these two jokers:
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1967 anti-war protest
These are my wife's children. I accept no responsibility for their actions:

Music:

The Muppets (they're not an indie band - I'm literally referring to Kermit, Ms. Piggy, and that guy with the gold teeth). Refer to the above playlist for an idea of what else I listen to.

Movies:

Anything directed by The Cohen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, Milos Forman, Roman Polanski, Felini or Jonathan Demi. In addition to that (to name a few) - Pieces of April, Buffalo '66, Natural Born Killers, Happiness, Whale Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, High Art, Groundhog Day, The Royal Tenanbaums, The Big Chill, Soapdish, Kramer v. Kramer, Seven, Breaking the Waves, Sixteen Candles, Trainspotting, A Clockwork Orange, Starwars trilogy, etc.

Television:

Cold Case Files, Law and Order: SVU, Family Guy, The Daily Show, Late Night With Conan O'Brian, The Golden Girls, Dead Like Me, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Robot Chicken, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Books:

Still Life with Woodpecker, The Things They Carried, Falconer, Perfume, Naked Lunch, Junkie, Middlesex, Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, Fools Crow, God is Red, The Zohar, Feast of Love, The Lovely Bones, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Running With Scissors, Dry, The Heights of Machu Pichu, American Psycho, The End of Alice, Castles Burning, Maus (I + II), and so on and so forth.From left to right: Hal Chase, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.

Heroes:

The Hollywood 10 My Grandfather, Martin Popper (first row, second from the left).

My Blog

Do Not Go Gentle

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dar...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:43:00 PST

Penis anyone?

On the menu today: horse penis and testicles with a chilli dip By Richard Spencer in Beijing(Filed: 17/02/2006) The menu at Beijing's latest venue for its growing army of gourmets is eye-watering rath...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:24:00 PST

The Story of Herman and Roma

Fairytale story of couple who met as children in Nazi camp By Ihosvani RodriguezSouth Florida Sun-SentinelHis young angel hid behind a tree with an apple underneath her warm coat. And that's wher...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:35:00 PST

Anna Quindlen's Speech at my mother's award ceremony

I will probably never recall a piece of art as vividly as I recall Mary Cassats Mother and Child in a Chair. In it a woman in a long-sleeved buff-colored dress bends h...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 08:50:00 PST

Etan Thomas speaks out at D.C. ralley

AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to NBA player Etan Thomas, among the celebrities who supported the protest this weekend. He's a basketball player with the Washington Wizards. ETAN THOMAS: Giving all honor, t...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:27:00 PST

Sharon Olds Declines To Break Bread With Bush

No Place for a Poet at a Banquet of Shame by SHARON OLDS [from the October 10, 2005 issue] For reasons spelled out below, the poet Sharon Olds has declined to attend the National Book Festival in Wash...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 07:15:00 PST

Down with Tyranny and Stupidity

Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poorby John Nichols Finally, we have discovered the roots of George W. Bush's"compassionate conservatism."On the heels of the president's "What, me worry?" respo...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:36:00 PST

The Hippo and the Tortoise

Subject: The hippo and the tortoiseA baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:48:00 PST

NY Magazine article about my mother

Laura Popper116 East 66th Street212-794-2136 Practice: Birth through adolescenceHMOs: NoneHospital affiliation: Mt. Sinai Medical CenterAssociate: Dr. Jacalyn ShaferHouse calls: YesBribes: Stickers,...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:56:00 PST

The Grace of Despair

The Grace of Despair If you have never reached the bottommost depths of despair, if you have not realized some point in your life at which you felt completely disintegrated, then you haven't begun you...
Posted by I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT BILLIE! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST