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25 October 2004. After I posted my entry for yesterday, I ordered a copy of PowerPoint. I felt able to because the folks at MAM (Miami Art Museum) surprised me by volunteering to cover the cost of my rental car and the gas it used. So for the first time, I actually came out ahead financially after doing a presentation--or will, when I get my check!
I feel pretty washed out. Dunno when I'll be able to get this blog uncrippled again (assuming it ever was), but will keep it going--today with a classic piece by Apollinaire I stole off the Ubu website:
Note (mainly to make Geof Huth envious): the high point of my Miami trip was the terrific meal I had with Carlos and Martha Luis Saturday night. Martha introduced me to cous cous (or is that one word?), something I don't think I'd ever even heard of before, but it was very good. She mixed peas, carrots and chicken with it. A fine salad, too--and ice cream and cake for dessert! No dumb fried bananas, or what it was they had when Geof and I were there the last time, either! Unless they were very skillfully disguised!
Before the meal, Carlos showed me some of his recentest works. He's been very busy. All kinds of manglings of text and old woodcuts. He slops a lot of different paints or the like on things, and puts gouges in them, and burns parts to give them charred edges. He's continuing an homage to Finnegans Wake that is frequently dazzling, and just about always interesting. I hope someone will find a way to put it in circulation. A publishing problem is its three dimensionality.
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