Biografia corto

photo caption: Lobby, Condado area, San Juan, PR


Born in Marion, IN : hometown of James Dean. Raised: Kenosha, WI : hometown of Orson Welles, Irving Wallace & Don Ameche. Lived in Albany, NY : hometown of Charles Fort and birthplace of electricity. Lives in Santa Olaya, PR : barrio natal de Chuito de Bayamon y Yeyito, alcarde de Santa Olaya.

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Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]

LikeUnlike · · March 13 at 5:59pm


photo caption: NO PARKING sign south of Naranjito, PR

 

 

Seventyfive Grand sez:
March 13, 2012

New Yorker cartoon:

Two old guys sitting at a bar. One says to the other:
"Seventyfive is not the new anything."
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Seventyfive Grand sez:
January 28, 2008

Help!

 
"The only thing that’s consistent here seems to be the weather. Every day is hot and humid. The sun beats down unmercifully and I’m thankful for the days when my palm tree is here to provide a bit of shade. Somehow, I... survive on the occasional fish or coconut. One day, I found myself sitting at a table, complete with a linen tablecloth and a small potted palm. The waiter never came."

 Posted by Mick Stevens, cartoonist for the New Yorker and artist for above mentioned cartoon. 

Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

 http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]

RRose Selavy [Arroser la vie]: "I'll drink to that."

photo caption: roadside, Santa Olaya, PR

 

March 22, 2012

A Tumor for Mr. Mutt?

In response to:

The Far-Apart Artists from the January 12, 2012 issue of the New York Review of Books.

To the Editors:

In Christopher Benfey’s interesting article about Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz [The Far-Apart Artists, NYR, January 12] he presents Marcel Duchamp as a friend of Stieglitz. The truth was that the photographer doubted the value of the Frenchman’s artistic works.

Benfey’s view that the signature "R. Mutt" on the infamous urinal that Duchamp tried to exhibit in the Independent Show in 1917 was "a pun suggesting both the German word for poverty and a mongrel version of art" may be two ways to interpret it, but it is more likely meant to be read backwards and then it says: "It is humor," as Patrick Aich has shown in his book Hunting Hearts about Duchamp. Even if Stieglitz did not read the signature that way, he may have had a good hunch as to the spirit of the mischievous Frenchman.

Lars Axel Söderberg
Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Stockholm, Sweden


Christopher Benfey replies:

Really? As in "’Tis UMR?"

I’m reminded of Nabokov’s discovery, announced to Edmund Wilson, that T.S. Eliot "goes well with ‘toilets.’"


Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR

http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]

HA RECHAZADO NUESTRA OFERTA?

photo caption: Tattoo decals, Panaderia de Santa Olaya, PR

1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
Chapter 10
YOU HAVE DECLINED OUR OFFER

[excerpt p. 426]


It was nearly ten oclock by the time he arrived home. His mailbox was empty. Opening his apartment door, he found the place looking even emptier than usual, the same vacuum he had left behind that morning. The shirt he had thrown on the floor, the switched-off word processor, the swivel chair with the indentation his weight had left in the seat, the eraser crumbs scattered over his desk. He drank two glasses of water, undressed, and crawled straight into bed. Sleep came over him immediately - a deep sleep such as he had not
had lately.

Jan Galligan
75Grand/Sur
Santa Olaya, PR


http://JANGuarte.posterous.com [art blog]
http://cinefestsanjuan.posterous.com [cine blog]
http://about.me/JanGalligan [about me]