Christopher Snalcken

i love him more than i love you

Playwriting Snack

Randomly found this great article:

Woody Allen: I Appreciate George S. Kaufman

W[h]ine Snack

Ugh! I had to wake up at FIVE THIRTY this morning because I HAD to go to wait in line for tickets in Central Park for Twelfth Night. And I spent SIX HOURS reading a novel and the Sunday Times and eating a BaconEggAndCheese under a gigantic TREE. Ugh, and then I got some of the LAST tickets! Ugh, and then I had to WALK home through Central Park and all I saw were hilarious DUCKS and some young gentlemen STICKFIGHTING and and old man teaching his granddaughters how to FISH. And THEN I went home and made pasta and watched 30 ROCK and read more of this TOME that I started in the morning. And NOW I have to get READY for the SHOW, during which the imbibing of ALCOHOL from SELF-PREPARED PLASTIC BOTTLES is READILY AND HEARTILY CONDONED. UGH.

Woe is me and my awesome day.

PS:

"Elsewhere in the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn--and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb.

"So, let us drink a cup of tea."

-Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Reasons to be Snacky

August Osnack County

So August: Osage County closes literally a week from Sunday. And the crime of the century/year is I have not seen nor read it. Who wants to go with me? Show of hands. Kay.

Apu Snack

The World Of Apu is coming to New York next week!

The NY Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/movies/10ray.html?_r=1

Showtimes at Lincoln Center: http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/onsale/satyajit/program.html

Snacking on NY Times Goat Quotes

The following quotes are some of the best I could find in one of the weirdest New York Times articles I've ever read, How I Learned to Love Goat Meat by Henry Alford.

"When New York Magazine proclaimed eating goat a 'trendlet' last summer, one reader whote on the magazine's website, 'Here are white people again!!!! Acting like they invented goat meat!' "

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"I'd liked the flavor of the meat, equidistant as it was from lamb and beef. But when my teeth wrangled a particularly tough piece of meat that was shield-shaped and curved and slightly rubbery, I had the distinct impression that I had bitten into the cup of a tiny bra."

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"Scavengers, they are falsely accused of eating tin cans. Their unappetizing visage is simultaneously dopey and satanic, like a Disney character with a terrible secret. Their chin hair is sometimes prodigious enough to carpet Montana. Chaucer said they 'stinken.' "

***

"...a friend asked me, 'Is it gay meat?" Confused, I said, 'There's nothing gay about it at all.' She explained, 'No, I said is it gamey?"

***

"In both dishes, the meat is as tender as a Jennifer Aniston movie."

fotografia courtesy of NYTimes.com

That's So Brando Snack

Method and Madness

Jeremy McCarter reviews a new Brando biography in the NYTimes on January 4, 2009

“From the greasy Polack you will someday arrive at the gloomy Dane for you have something that makes the theater a world of great possibilities.”

-Tennessee Williams to Brandypants after the opening of Streetcar.

I like to think that I, you, we have that something, sometimes, too.

fotografia courtesy of NYTimes

Snacking Snack

Old Gender Roles With Your Dinner?

By Frank Bruni

Published October 7, 2008

fotografia courtesy of Tony Cenicol/The New York Times

Modern Love Snack

Let's Not Get to Know Each Other Better

by Joel Walkowski
published June 8, 2008


Runner up in the NYTimes Modern Love College Essay Contest

fotografia courtesy of topleftpixel.com

GeniuSnack

Tara Donovan was one of this year's recipients of the MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Subsequently, she was profiled in the NYTimes this week.

The Genius of Little Things

by Carol Kino

a nifty slideshow is accompanied here: "Material Wonders"

fotografia courtesy of Ellen Labenski, Tara Donovan, and PaceWildenstein NY

Muppet Snack

"Fuzzy Renaissance"

by Brooks Barnes

Schnabel Snack

Harmonic Convergence: When Julian Met Plácido
by Charles McGrath

Julian Schnabel was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to paint a portrait of Plácido Domingo wearing a cape and things. Plácido Domingo is my favorite of The Three Tenors. Julian Schnabel is a painter who directed The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

fotografia courtesy of Richard Perry for NYTimes.com

ObviSnack

"McCain Seen as Less Likely to Bring Change, Poll Finds"

Life Snack

"Perhaps Death is Proud; More Reason to Savor Life"

by Theresa Brown

warning: this article is, in parts, incredibly graphic. the end paragraph, however, had me in tears of...joy? realization? not quite sure. but all of this confusion, at work.

fotografia courtesy of googlegooglegoogle

Woody Snack

"Excerpts from the Spanish Diary" by Woody Allen

Woody's journalistic account of filming Vicky Christina Barcelona. I have not seen the movie yet, but he is hilarious.

fotografia courtesy of Victor Bello and NYTimes.com

Dia: Snack

This was my favorite exhibit at Dia:Beacon when I went earlier this summer. It involves Merce Cunningham and John Cage and love post death, and film, and silence (of course) and a great, vast, dark expanse.

An article about it in the New York Times appeared today. Here is the link!

"Oh So Quiet" by Holland Cotter (which is a snack of a name, if I do say so myself)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22dia.html?ei=5070

fotografia courtesy of NYTimes.com

Summer Jamz Snack