From The History of American Graffiti
“Yo, meet me tonight by the hatch to the Grant lay-up where IZ THE WIZ does those ill top-to-bottoms. Bring caps, but I got paint: We ran up in the Ghost Yard with conductor paddles and vicked some toys for their cans and ragged their pieces with mopes, then today we racked up in Jersey. Show me your outline. We’ll do window-down wholecar burner in wildstyle with characters. They’re not raiding that spot, it should be a getover, let’s go!”
The language of graffiti
Tonight I drove down an empty 5 freeway, saw friends from yesterday, and made the old feel new. The sights, the sounds, and feelings were beautiful.
Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad
In Baghdad, a performance of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet - where the Montagues and Capulets are Shiite and Sunni and there are references to Blackwater, Iran and the US reconstruction debacles - has heralded the return of serious arts culture to Iraq.
The cast and crew are currently performing their version of the classic in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, the birthplace of William Shakespeare, for the World Shakespeare Festival.
This is something I need to see!!
The inner embers of the blaze looked pillowy soft just before it all caved in. This final farewell constitutes a cathartic purging of deep love and lose. A fond journey has lead me to a rich new beginning.
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” -Vincent van Gogh
