Cicadas are leaving their encasements all over UD‘s garden this morning.
Things are happening fast.
Police ended up seizing black tar heroin, powder cocaine, a digital scale, packaging materials, money, a .9-mm handgun and a loaded extended 30-round magazine.
On the boardwalk in Ocean City, MD.
Faithful readers will recall that the Rapoports, UD‘s father’s family, have been in business in Ocean City since 1910.
UD’s father in law spent four years in Corbu’s atelier just after WW2 – and I mean just after, as in he pretty much traveled directly from Murnau POW camp (where he spent the whole war, having been captured by the Germans early in the conflict) to the Paris studio. UD worked with Jerzy, who wrote the original manuscript in English, on his written English (English was his third or fourth language) in the main essay, which you can find here. (You can find a mistake-free version of the essay in this book.)
One of my happiest memories is sitting on the porch overlooking a pond at Wojciech Fangor’s house one summer, going back and forth with Jerzy, paragraph by paragraph. He had a big broad excitable style with major use of dashes, dot-dot-dots, and exclamation marks; he took all of my editing suggestions in good humor.
Here’s Jerzy’s acknowledgement of our work together.
And here’s his just-released writing about Corbu, translated into Polish:
Actually, it is spring, and UD‘s gone missing from University Diaries for a few days because she’s just standing around gawking. And gardening. She’ll be back to blogging later today.
He still can’t really see it; he’s been squinting at an enlarged image of it for some time.
So as Mr UD grapples with the concept of camouflage, eats the egg and sour dough slices I fried in olive oil, and packs for the beach, UD lets you know that she will be blogging from the president’s summer home for the next week.
… is actually in sunny Arlington, Virginia, at Ambar, for brunch with a buddy.
UPDATE: I keep gazing at this insanely well-composed photograph.
It’s like Munch’s The Scream for happy people.
Is La Kid carrying a bar of radium in her pocket, like Marie Sklodowska Curie?
Part of a regular UD series, introducing you to her Bethesda world.
Here’s a house with a twelve-car garage.
Price has just been lowered by $170K, so power up your motorcade and go for it.