75Grand @ posthaven

photo caption: on the beach somewhere in Puerto Rico - photo by Lydia Mulero

-- WHICH MONTH IS THIS? ASKS LILLIAN.

-- UH, I'M NOT SURE...

-- IS IT JANUARY?

-- NO, SUPERBOWL IS OVER. THEY PLAYED IN NEW ORLEANS.

-- IF IT'S MARCH, THEN ST. PATRICK'S DAY AND YOUR BROTHER'S BIRTHDAY ARE COMING UP.

-- DIDN'T I JUST GIVE YOU SOMETHING FOR DIA DE SAN VALENTIN?

-- NO.

-- WELL I MEANT TO.

-- SO, IT'S FEBRARY THEN?

-- UH-HUH.

-- THEN THAT MEANS IT'S LYDIA'S BIRTHDAY...

[TOGETHER] -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MIJA!

 LINKS TO OLDER BLOG POSTS

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]

photo caption: "Islands in the Stream"  table top still life, Santa Olaya, Feb 2013.

-- I READ IN THE PAPER THAT IN THE NORTHEAST AND MIDWEST THEY JUST HAD A SNOWSTORM TO RIVAL THE BLIZZARD OF 1978, SAYS LILLIAN.

-- I REMEMBER THAT STORM. I WAS IN MY EARLY THIRTIES.

-- THIS STORM WAS FEROCIOUS. THEY NAMED IT NEMO. 

-- REALLY. LIKE THE CARTOON CHARACTER?

-- APPARENTLY.

-- I'M GOING TO HAVE A SNOWCONE COVERED IN RON de BARRILITO. I CALL IT HAPPY HOOLIGAN. DO YOU WANT ONE?

-- NO THANKS. I'LL JUST HAVE A BEER.

-- O.K.

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]

(MT, ANNOTATED) CELEBRITY TWEETS IN REACTION TO BEYONCE'S HALFTIME SHOW:

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]

photo caption: Waiting room, veterinarian's office, Bayamon, PR. Framed contemporary folk art picture on wall shows two young combatants with their roosters at cockfight in Santa Olaya, PR.

Spring, 1987 artist David Wojnarowicz and his lover Tom Rauffenbart spent a few days in Puerto Rico: 

David wanted to film a cockfight. They found a place in San Juan that Tom described as "upscale" and "classy," the top of the line for this activity. But they had a few days before the fights were scheduled, so they drove off to explore the island... On their way back to San Juan from the west coast of Puerto Rico, they ran into a heavy storm and flooded roads. At one point, they got stuck in a puddle and had to hire some kids to push them out. Tom found an alternate route through the mountains, so they avoided further floods, but they got back to San Juan too late for the cockfight. "David was miserable," Tom said. "I mean fucking miserable as only David could be. Inconsolable." Then, as they drove through town, Tom happened to spot a large drawing of a cockfight on a building. "As luck would have it, they were just starting their day's fights," he said. "Thank god."

This was a neighborhood place, shabbier and thus more interesting to film. The proprietor not only gave David permission to film the fight but also let him go back to where the handlers were prepping the birds, attaching razor-sharp spurs to their legs. David included this footage in a A FIRE IN MY BELLY. The cockfight must have seemed essential to him because it gave him an animal-versus-animal fight. He already had animal-versus-human (a bullfight filmed off a television) and human-versus-human (Mexican wrestling).

"We almost broke up twice during that trip," Tom said.

[excerpt from FIRE IN THE BELLY:The life and times of David Wajnarowicz, by Cynthia Carr, published by Bloomsbury USA, New York, First U.S. edition, 2012.]

note: In November 2010, G. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, removed an edited version of footage used in Wojnarowicz's short silent film A FIRE IN MY BELLY from the exhibit "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture" at the National Portrait Gallery after complaints from the Catholic League, Minority Leader John Boehner, and Rep. Eric Cantor who threatened reduced federal funding for the Smithsonian. The video contains a scene with a crucifix covered in ants.  [Wikipedia]

A FIRE IN MY BELLY (video excerpt courtesy PPOW gallery, NYC)

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]

photo caption: Still Life, Santa Olaya, PR -- Aug, 2012

... he made himself a drink. Then he cut the string around the big bundle of magazines and paper and spread them on the table. The magazines looked fresh and virginal compared with the way they looked when they arrived (by mail boat) on the island. He took up The New Yorker. At the island he had always saved it for the evenings and it had been a long time since he had seen a New Yorker of the week of publication, or one that had not been folded. He sat in the deep comfortable chair and drank his drink...

[excerpt from: pg 196, ISLANDS IN THE STREAM by Ernest Hemingway; Part  I, BIMINI. Published by Scribner, New York, First Scribner trade paperback edition, 2004]

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]

"Can Information Theory Explain Consciousness?" by John R. Searle -- a review of Consciousness: Confession of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch. 

Review published in The New York Review of Books, Jan 10, 2013

[excerpt]

...the qualitative charactistic of drinking beer is different from that of listening to music or thinking about your income tax. This qualitative character is subjective in that it only exists as experienced by a human or animal subject. It has subjective or first-person existence (or "ontology") unlike mountains, molecules, and tectonic plates that have an objective or third-person existence... 

-- I HAVE SOMETHING TO ASK YOU, DARLING, SAYS LILLIAN

-- SURE DARLING. TURN DOWN THE MUSIC AND PASS ME A BEER, PLEASE?

-- OF COURSE, DARLING. HERE IS A GLASS OF COLD MILLER BEER.

-- THANK YOU!

-- YOU'RE WELCOME. DID YOU FINISH OUR TAXES YET? 

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]

-- I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU, DARLING, SAYS LILLIAN

-- SURE DARLING. CAN I HAVE A BEER, PLEASE?

-- OF COURSE, DARLING. HERE IS A GLASS OF COLD BUYA BEER.

-- THANK YOU!

-- YOU'RE WELCOME. FRUIT FLIES LIKE ORANGES...

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]

photo caption: LAYS, Bayamon, PR -- photo by Lydia Mulero 12/22/12

Interviewed in VANITY FAIR magazine, Jan. 2013, Mike Nichols and Elaine May were asked about a series of 10-second tv commercials they did for JAX beer. "Was it fun doing commercials?" they were asked. "It was the most fun doing commercials, I think, for both of us," Elaine answered.

-- I HAVE SOMETHING TO TELL YOU, DARLING, SAYS LILLIAN

-- FINE DARLING. CAN I HAVE A BEER, PLEASE?

-- OF COURSE, DARLING. HERE IS A GLASS OF COLD, SPARKLING MEDALLA BEER.

-- THANK YOU!

-- YOU'RE WELCOME. LYDIA SHAVED THE DOG TODAY.

LINK TO MIKEY SEZ

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]

George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year

By JOEL LOVELL
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: January 3, 2013 

Saunders and (his wife) Paula live just outside of Oneonta, N.Y., two hours southeast of Syracuse. Their house sits on 15 acres, up a hill at the end of a rocky drive...

Saunders writes in a shed across the driveway from his house... There’s the desk and a sofa and a table stacked with books that he has been researching for his next project. On the shelves there are pictures of him and Paula and the girls and a great one from his jazz-fusion days of him playing a Fender Telecaster, with white-blond Johnny Winter hair to his shoulders. “In our lives, we’re many people,” he said as he lifted the photo off the shelf.

THE GEORGE SAUNDERS PHOTO CHALLENGE:

The new George Saunders Library book covers use the three most Saundersesque photographs in the known universe. Highly trained professionals were involved in every stage of the development of all three photographs.

You think you can do better? All right, then, BRING IT! You capture with your camera quintessential George Saundersness and upload your own fancy-ass original photo below.

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We’ll put your photo up in the The George Saunders Photo Challenge Gallery™ using our Sophisticated Communication Technologies - and you will become an Internet Celebrity®. If we think your photo is actually good, as in better than almost everyone else’s...you could win a complete autographed set of George Saunders’s work!

photo caption: submission by Jan Galligan - The Beautiful Caribbean; location - gift shop, Luis Munoz Marin Airport, San Juan, PR. 12/12/12

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THE GEORGE SAUNDERS PHOTO CHALLENGE GALLERY

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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]