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Marco Acevedo
- Location
- NYC, New York, USA
- Birthday
- June 18
- Bio
- Chronincling ongoing tensions in the long and troublesome marriage of Word and Image. My trade is graphic design, which is often just a euphemism for "frustrated artist." In this case make that "frustrated writer/artist." You know— like Dave Eggers.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Congrats from someone
still in the selling doldrums.
Your
house sounded
wonderful…”
May 27, 2009 01:14PM - “Alcibiades—
th
x for the sentiment, but I
noticed that the post got a
link
on…”
May 08, 2009 10:44AM - “Jimgalt—
Yes:
this whole area is gray: no
art is pure in the context
of
mone…”
May 08, 2009 10:38AM - “You know, one can be
dumbfounded enough by
Proposition 8. And
then
something like…”
May 08, 2009 01:58AM - “Procopius,
Ginny—
I think this
cover was a fluke, but a
telling one.
Watson…”
May 08, 2009 01:03AM
Marco Acevedo's Links
It's a grand but unspoken Hollywood tradition: the child star grows up and becomes sexualized.… Read full post »
Maybe President Obama needs an Image Czar, not merely in the sense of someone qualified to create and manage photo opportunities but someone who would have nixed the ill-considered Air Force One debacle on Monday morning.
The latest government official with egg on his face is Louis E. Calder… Read full post »
Thursday haiku (for my wife)
photo credits: upper left and right, Paul J.
Rrichards/Agence France-Presse; lower left, J. Scott Applewhite/The
Associated Press; lower right, AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
“The man beholdeth himself in the glass and goeth his way, and straightway both the mirror and the mirrored forget wh… Read full post »
Pictures of the Going World #1: Laptop Act
I'm posting this impulsively, though it may be the first in a series of things observed pell mell, reminders of the fact that this world is perpetually alien u… Read full post »
Sea Monkey, the Movie
This one's for Odetteroulette, and for Mari McNeil, who's a damn fine movie trailer copy writer:
"Killed off all the sea monkeys but one and that one has grown to a ginormous 1/2 inch size. Where will this end? Attack of the ginormous, bastard sea monkeys?"
Mari, just… Read full post »
Photo: Pete Souza/The White HouseWell, actually it was more of a skirmish. On Wednesday, the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse refused to distribute images provided by the White House of the President’s activities in the Oval Office during his first full day in office,… Read full post »
10:52 a.m.
I’m at our table in Carolines with my wife Dee (aka Girl
w/Pen) and a happy, mimosa-fueled crowd of feminist confreres
watching as the bi-Presidential caravan heads out from the White
House. (This is unfortunately taking the form of an after-the-fact
dispatch, since I don’t have… Read full post »
THIS is what confronted me this morning in a little camera store Times Square, NYC on my way to the White House Project's Inauguration Watch Party at Carolines' Comedy Club. What happened to the sprawling Times Square newstands selling everything from comics to cigars to, well, I… Read full post »
Shiraz Boy Avatar
I return briefly from my self-imposed temporary exile (made necessary by fiscal duty) to answer DogWoman's call for entries for the new OS Avatar Collage! I hope I made it under the wire, as I'd love to be part of the OS Community mug, since my mug has never been… Read full post »
Since the Obama Administration will stand for change, they should signal this message through their choice of White House pup. I think they should adopt an Alaskan wolf pup orphaned by one of Governor Palin's sniper copters. Too much for Sasha and…
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008. I woke up this morning and decided I wanted to wear a flag pin, for the firs… Read full post »
Election Day Salsa: ¡Obamonos!
As of this morning, Joe the Plumber is a brand as well as a hou… Read full post »
Alba's Tale, Part Four
She turned back from the step, and took Martín again by the hand. She pulled him out to the road and he came along grudgingly, dragging the stick behind him and raising a cloud of gray… Read full post »
Alba's Tale, Part One
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, late 1940s. Alba Martinez awoke at her husband’s first stirrings. She slipped her dry brown feet into h… Read full post »
Alba's Tale, Part Two
Top: the Obama family, barackobama.com October 3,
2008
Bottom: The First Family, Hyannisport, MA, August 4,
1962
A few days ago I was in full ADD mode, surfing the web and breezing through my usual site-haunts, when I decided to take a detour to Obama's website…
The best thing about being newly single back in 2006, believe it or not, was finally having a library. It seemed that no matter how large our series of outer-borough NYC apartments were, living with my ex meant the floor plan never allowed for all of my books being in… Read full post »
The Importance of a Good Bedside Manner
75 years ago there was at least the semblance of transparency. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation directly, in measured tones, pulling no punches, with some expectation that his audience would meet him part of the way even though most of them were not financial experts. He ex… Read full post »
Our Table(tte) for Two
"I think you should get a little round table,"
I offered.
"You know, a bistro."
"Hmm," she said, looking a bit doubtful. As she stared at the empty space in front of the windows, her eyes were filled with that vast table for ten, the one she once… Read full post »
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