For St. Cecilia’s Day–
A flashback to June 8, 2004:
From today’s
Arts & Letters Daily:
Critics in Mozart’s age
threw up their hands
at the dark Don Giovanni,
calling it perverse, amoral.
These days, such qualities
turn us on… more»
Paul Klee,
The Bavarian Don Giovanni,
1919, watercolor and ink
on paper
There’s a little black spot
on the sun today….
Cartoon Graveyard
(continued)
From yesterday’s New York Post:
By LARRY CELONA, JOHN MAZOR and DAN MANGAN
November 21, 2005 — The former tour manager for superstars Paul Simon and Billy Joel was stabbed to death yesterday by his prostitute girlfriend on his 57th birthday less than a block from Gracie Mansion, cops said.
“It looked like a horror movie in there,” said an NYPD detective after seeing the blood-drenched bed in the couple’s sixth-floor studio at 530 East 89th St., where cops say music producer Danny Harrison was stabbed twice in the chest with a long butcher knife by his live-in lover just before 1 p.m.
I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
— Paul Simon
Below: cartoonist Lou Myers,
who also died on Sunday, Nov. 20,
with a horse from yesterday’s entry.
“... and behold: a pale horse.
And his name, that sat on him,
was Death. And Hell
followed with him.”
Related material:
Log24 entries of
Sept. 15, 2003.
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