Below is an amusing blog from the LA PHILL about the last time they played in Austria and their Strauss was met by boos. So they were a bit fearful of playing Mahler in Vienna the other night.....
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
SATURDAY GALLERIES: VIENNA 1
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| Christopher Wool |
A friend was on a quiche kick this week and I was first in line to try both versions. Scrumptious! We then headed out to the galleries on this bright and sunny Saturday afternoon and I expected lots of people would have the same idea. But no, it was pretty empty in those art galleries.
Galerie Winiarczyk was closed but the window was completely open! Blown out from the crazy winds and a clever cowgirl could have lassoed a sculpture out but we decided to alert the gallerist instead. Next door at Galerie Meyer Kainer all the glass was in tact but the walls were being jostled by the large blocking of paper, fabric and paintings of Heimo Zobernig. I was not a fan of his last show at this gallery so I carried a sort of anticipatory dread of disappointment with me before entering the exhibition.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
BY SOUTHWEST
It seems like yesterday or last Tuesday that we were tooling along, you and I, two strangers in my new car and you were insisting you knew how to drive stick shift. We were driving a long ways North that day and you had never touched a stick shift! But we arrived safely and each time we meet we arrive safely again. You are a compass to go by and a dear friend. Enjoy your day!
I think it is fitting that these completely Bio whole-wheat honey cinnamon buns were finishing a final rise as the Packers finished theirs!
THE OTHER SIDE OF FORTUNE..
Thursday, February 3, 2011
YEAR OF THE RABBIT
Today on the Chinese Lunar New Year it is considered bad luck to sweep the floors because good luck might be swept away with the dust. Just to be safe I will also steer clear of the vacuum, mop and dirty laundry too. Can't have too much good luck!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
SECRET SOCIETY
For a while last year Wolfy lived in the apartment across the hall from me. We mostly had an open door policy and would wander over for morning coffee or a snack on the way to the studio. I always reminded him “Don’t forget your keys” because it seemed like an accident waiting to happen. So inevitably one night on our way to meet friends for sushi on a boat moored in the Danube canal I forgot my keys. I cursed myself, my little purse and high heals. It was too late to get extra keys from the landlord.
A few days later we were scavenging the flea market and Wolfy says, “You should get this!” In his hand was a chocker necklace with a single key dangling. I did get it. Stuck it around my neck there and then with a plan to rotate my key for the original. The key that came on the chocker I never really looked at, neither of us had. It was more like we bought the idea of the key necklace than the necklace itself.
But then we looked at it. What was this strange key? Was this the key to NYC city? 'Greetings from Mayor Robert F. Wagner" are etched into the key along with the New York City crest and Yale. Robert F. Wagner Jr. was mayor of NYC from 1954 – 1965. A little research showed that Mayor Wagner had been a member of the Scroll & Key society at Yale University. Scroll & Key was a splinter group of Skull & Bones and is the second oldest secret society at the University. He was also a Mason.
Had Robert F. Wagner Jr. sent out these keys to his cronies from the Scroll & Key society upon entering office? Does it actually unlock a door? To where and for whom? And how did my key necklace end up at a flea market in Vienna? I never replaced my house key for the Mayor's key. I decided to stop locking myself out of my own house instead. (Knock on wood!)
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