Golly, that sounds like a lady I’d like to meet!
LIT REVIEW: Anna Jane Grossman’s OBSOLETE, Philadelphia City Paper
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Art by Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala From a show earlier this year at Fleisher/Ollman. The brothers were exploring “concepts of consumption, use-value, sentimentality, exaggeration, efficiency, and waste are explored through a dark and humorous lens.”
(via Philebrity)
Another installment of Object So Obsolete That You Probably Don’t Even Know What It Was For.
Saw this this weekend in Philadelphia. Anyone know?
I had a great time at the First Person Arts festival in Philadelphia yesterday. Thanks to all of you who came out! In addition to reading and signing, I got to see a documentary about the Philadelphia Complaint Choir, heard Rita Mae Brown give a talk about animal intelligence, and had AJ Jacobs sign a copy of The Guinea Pig Diaries (to AJ, from AJ). And I sold out of books! Yeehaw!
My dad came to the festival with me. Afterwards, while at dinner with my cousin and her husband, we ran into a guy you might know: George Washington.
Dean Malissa was there to play a part in AJ Jacobs’ presentation. He is the country’s official George Washington impersonator. He doesn’t usually wear jean jackets. He does usually wear his hair in this manner. He was kind enough to let me and my dad take our picture with him (just FYI—I’m not that short! I just look it—both these men are over 6-foot-4, as was Washington, Malissa informed me). Then he went off to a place he called “the necessary.”
This kind of thing seems to happen a lot in Philly. On a trip there earlier this year, I ran into the official Ben Franklin.
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I will be talking at The First Person Festival of Memoir and Documentary Art on November 7th in Philadelphia, PA. At the event, my face will probably not be as weirdly elongated as it seems to be in this photo. But you’ll have to come see for yourself.
