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elaine

i got nutin to say bout dat

About Me

artist (painter) living in brooklyn......fer now

My Interests

history, the ny times book review, old movies, art and literature...and good music

I'd like to meet:

al gore

Music:

whatever my itunes shuffles to the surface.........it could be ANYTHING!!! right now i can't stop listening to the donnas cuz i just saw them in concert, and because, let's face it, they ARE all that....but you might also find me listening to anything from abba to X....mixed up with louis armstrong and ella fitzgerald, the soundtrack for lawrence of arabia,....dylan, the dead, laura nyro(a soft spot for the poets, like patty griffin, lucinda williams,sam phillips), some good old stright ahead bad company or zeppelin,a great pop tune like neil diamond wrote for the monkees......music is a banquet...can't always eat from the same menu....right now i'm eatin up those power chords from donna R

Movies:

just watched the african queen with bogie and kate hepburn...still great after all these years...(bogart won the oscar)

Television:

csi....they make scientists who do a grisly stinkin' job seem really cool and smart......oh and weeds...a subject that is near and dear to me....showtime is a lot like canada (the smarter north americans)....and Turner classic movies!!

Books:

Gatsby

Heroes:

where do you set the bar for that? my mom and dad

My Blog

what have we learned?

what have we learned from the viet nam war? i'm not a veteran (though my dad and granddad are), so i can't speak to the "tactics and strategies", and i'm not a historian, but i know my OWN history.......
Posted by elaine on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:35:00 PST

my sister is tight with the dalai lama

this blog is an appreciation.....my sister (who works for the international campaign for tibet) has become the central organizer of all our family functions and this year at christmas i had the opport...
Posted by elaine on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:42:00 PST

automatic toilets

i just got back from california....the land of deserts, bottled water , brush fires, and fear of drought......and when i arrived at bob hope airport, desperate to take a leak and change my tampon i fo...
Posted by elaine on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:26:00 PST

the davinci blog

this is my first ever blog, which i sit down to do now after spending much time wondering why this is a worthwhile endeavor at all....my first quesion to the blogosphere in general is, "why are you re...
Posted by elaine on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:57:00 PST