Mavis Beacon: Archive

Jan 31st

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Jan 29th

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Highlights from Franklin Williams' painting...

Yellow is a color. Children’s first preference is yellow. The grass is yellow and thin. Or dog pee? On green grass? That indentation in the grass. Caution. Caution flags on the speedway. Yellow. Scones for breakfast. Honey. How ‘bout school buses and urine? They go together, don’t they? School buses and urine. Billy Ford always won. New Mexico. New Mexico license...

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Jan 25th

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“If there have been several years with poor rainfall, trees or shrubs might...”

– In Full View: Three Ways of Seeing California Plants by Glenn Keator, Linda Yamane, and Ann Lewis

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Jan 22nd

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I don't know why Louis Vuitton made a space movie,... →

Jan 22nd

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Thursdays are my favorite.

I have painting class for six hours in the city and then writing workshop for three hours in Oakland and then I go home and listen to Sam Cooke on repeat. Today my painting teacher said, “You have to feel up the world. I mean, I still love to feel up Carol [my wife], but the world! Wow, man. You have to feel up the world.” He made groping gestures as he said this. He also talked...

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Jan 19th

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Jan 19th

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True Love, Sharon Olds

In the middle of the night, when we get up after making love, we look at each other in complete friendship, we know so fully what the other has been doing. Bound to each other like mountaineers coming down from a mountain, bound with the tie of the delivery room, we wander down the hall to the bathroom, I can hardly walk, I wobble through the granular shadowless air, I know where you are...

Jan 18th

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Jan 18th

Anonymous asked: Do you believe in magic in a young girl's heart?

Jan 16th

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“[Madame Curie and her husband] got the use of a large, rickety shed with a leaky...”

– From Uncertainty: Einstein, Hesienberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science by David Lindley

Jan 16th

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Jan 15th

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Amy says I don't talk about myself enough and then...

What do you want to know?

Jan 15th

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Jan 15th

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Jan 15th

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I just got a bunch of books and CDs in the mail...

Jan 15th

List of things I felt during the first week of...

frantic ashamed unworthy afraid short of breath worried about making the wrong decision/fear of regret afraid of being unable to perform afraid of being disappointing/disappointing myself fear on a religious scale, of a judgmental god, without the god part, but god’s permanence and consequences

Jan 15th

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