Annabelle's Aspirin
Happy May Day

I'm pretending that I wasn't the only one out there that didn't work today and that all of you spent the day in the sun, talking, eating good food, playing music, and letting the ways of Spring have its way with you and her, and him, and them...
Question
Kim and I are back from our whirlwind Raleigh NC - Brooklyn NY tour and I'll post pictures soon. But for now, look at this short article from the
Washington Post about an April Fool's joke:
Wednesday, April 2, 2008; Page B03
An "in memoriam" ad about a former U.S. ambassador that was placed as an April Fools' Day joke backfired yesterday.
A photo of Edward M. Gabriel, a very much alive international business consultant who was the U.S. ambassador to Morocco from 1997 to 2001, topped an ad on Page B8 in yesterday's Washington Post.
In language reminiscent of the movie "Brokeback Mountain," the $322.20 ad said, "Though I no longer have you as my partner, this day will always be OUR anniversary. . . . I could never quit you."
The ad was taken out by J. Peter Segall, a public relations executive and lawyer. Segall is paying for a retraction in today's Post. Segall said last night that he is a mature man who made an immature mistake.
"As I said in a correction that I hope is published [today], I engaged in a very stupid and ultimately cruel April Fools' joke against a man that has been my best friend for 30 years, and I deeply, deeply regret it," Segall said. (The retraction appears on Page B7.)
Gabriel said he fielded calls all day from friends who thought he had died. One woman told him she spent two hours crying after seeing the ad.
"He's an old friend who plays jokes on me every year, and some are hilarious, but they've been private," Gabriel said. "He's a good friend who went a little too far. He's apologized profusely, and I've accepted it, but not without being a little hurt. I think -- I know -- he had no ill intent."
It's the first time in 20 years that a spoof ad is known to have run in The Post, said a company spokesman. There is no formal process for checking the truth of the ads, he said. Unlike death notices or news obituaries, which are fact-checked, families often take out "in memoriam" ads to remember a deceased relative months or years after the person's death.
-- Patricia Sullivan
So, as some of you may know on April 10, 2005 I printed the following In Memoriam in the Washington Post:

In doing this I was wanting to have some tangible proof, to show the way I think photographic images and the words (often) alongside/under them function. To me, this pairing makes a package too tidy, and effortlessly undermines most of the complicated, messy, and beautiful history of the photographed. As you can imagine, not everyone who saw the
Post that day was clued-in to why I was in the paper, and it caused a few headaches and a few people were pretty angry with me.
My question is, do I let the post know that this fake In Memoriam of
Edward M. Gabriel in fact isn't the first fake obit in the past 20 years?
Correction and a Banana
Langdon wrote to let me know that I need to add one small correction to my previous post: The space where the Langdon is showing is "actually the Kantor/Feuer window, which is not a direct extension of Zach Feuer's solo project gallery (even though he's the boss of all of it)."
I have no idea who these Kantor/Feuer people are and if I were them I'd want to be associated w/ Ms. Graves but hey-- what do I know? Gee real estate in NY must be pretty expensive...
The Langdon did send along some pics of her window:


In other news, I went to a great lecture by the
Guerrilla Girls last night at Longwood. Despite founding member Frida Kahlo saying "bitch" a million times and scaring some of my unbelievably pure students, I think a good time was had by all and we definitely learned a few things.
Kate MacDonnell, Migrating (2006)
I'd be remiss to not mention, brag or announce that two very good people, friends and artists have openings this weekend. First up,
Kate MacDonnell, fellow
SAMETIME7:15-er, neighborhood high-school friend, incredibly thoughtful, astute, talented, and compassionate human being is having an opening at
Civilian Art Projects in Washington, DC tomorrow night. Kim and I will be there, hope you are too.
Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW Washington, DC 20004-2260
March 21-April 26

The amazing, enviable, and recent
SAMETIME7:15 star
Langdon Graves' opening is actually happening as I write this so this won't do much to get you to the opening but you can go check out her work 24 hours a day for the next month. She's showing in the window space at
Zach Feurer Gallery. I don't know about Langdon but I love my work to be able to be seen as people are driving by...
259 10th Ave. Btwn W25 and 26 Sts
March 20-April 22

My mom's maiden name is Sturniolo which is a name akin to the word Starling in Italian. Indeed they/we are a chatty bunch...
Happy Birthday Donna!
Explain-O-Rama!
Since she was kind enough to care to ask, some pics for Paula to illustrate what One Scoop is Two Balls is/was...
It was an art show...

At an ice cream parlor in Hollywood called Scoops...

(I think) this is Paul Evans, the guy that organized the show and came up with the name...

Here's what I have in the show...

Hope this does the trick!
One Scoop is Two Balls


Art and Ice Cream! Opening tonight in L.A. Curated by Paul Evans.
Labels: art, L.A., One Scoop is Two Balls, Paul Evans
CBF is TCB
Two for One Clicking Here
Last of the Words (or Mute From Here on Out)
That's right. These are pretty much, almost certainly, the last of the words. I have just one thing to tells those who don't know: I quit my job and I'm teaching an intro. photo class at Longwood University while I bide my time freelancing and planning to...
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness...

Here's a hero!
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