Celebration Day
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Happy Birthday, Barack Obama! Aug. 4 1961
Celebrate with us on Clubhouse! August 4, at 12 midday EST https://www.clubhouse.com/event/myjBRW2l
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Happy Birthday, Louis Armstrong! Aug. 4 1901
Join us on Clubhouse, August 4, at 4 pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/event/PGv3Xv2d
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Happy Birthday, James Baldwin! (1924)
Celebrate his life with us on Clubhouse, today, August 2, at 6pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/join/birthday-celebration/MlZyWrn0/MwrdABVe
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Happy Birthday, Alice Sarah Ott!
She was born on a day like today, in 1988. At a very early age, while listening to Japanese from her mother, and German from her father, she knew that the best language to communicate is music. After piano studies (her mother is a pianist), she began winning a variety of classical music piano competitions.…
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“the usual rilke” by Ernst Jandl
Translation from the German by Joshua Weiner rilke’s separationthe unusual rilkeand the usual rilkeare stuck in their samenessthe unusual rilkeand the usual rilkewould have stayed togetherthe unusual rilkeand the usual rilkewould have to separatethe unusual rilkeand the usual rilkeboth knew it rilke’s breath 1rilkebreathedthe airthe good air 2rilkebreathedwithout pause rilke’s noseentrance and exitof the airit…
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Calling All Lovers of Poetry in the German Language
Join us on August 1 at 1pm EST, to celebrate the poetic magician and deconstructionist of the German language, Ernst Jandl — born on August 1 1925. https://www.clubhouse.com/join/birthday-celebration/001SObMj/xljpAnwj
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Happy Birthday, Kate Bush! (1958)
Feel free to join us by listening to this unusual musical mind. July 30 at 7 pm EST https://www.clubhouse.com/event/mJvLqoGv
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Thank you. Simply, Thank you.
It was August 28 of 2020. Three hundred and thirty-five days ago I decided to start a different website to share my life as life. Until then I had been focused on separating the ideas I feel a need to share into separate spaces. Suddenly it hit me that my view on life and the…
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Even a long cigar will not outlast a Wagner
Just finished listening to Parsifal, Richard Wagner’s last opera. The cigar I celebrated with — the Salomones Royal from Davidoff — lasted three hours. The opera goes for 4:30 hours. A long double pleasure.
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“Parsifal” premiered on this day of 1882
ACT I Near the sanctuary of the Holy Grail, the old knight Gurnemanz and two sentries wake and perform their morning prayers, while other knights prepare a bath for their ailing ruler Amfortas, who suffers from an incurable wound. Suddenly, Kundry—a mysterious, ageless woman who serves as the Grail’s messenger—appears. She has brought medicine for…
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