my life with jackie / my life with christa / my life with burvil (cont’d)

it is so very different. and yet also eerily similar.

especially the way the story presses against your brain.

all of the voices within it, like a choir with an orchestra, but you don’t quite have the music.

so it’s just voices and that weirdly lovely chaos of noise when the orchestra is warming up.

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on presidential portraits

the thing about presidential portraits is that they usually aren’t all that exciting. partly [SWEEPING GENERALIZATION] possibly perhaps because there haven’t really been presidents who were particularly interested in art or in portraiture as an art form.

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the pathos of jackie kennedy dolls on etsy, 2.0

i’ve written about this before. AT LENGTH. so i’mma keep it short here. try to anyway.

but i was doing my annual pre-birthday perusal of kennedy things on etsy…

nothing new to see, ya’ll. the gang’s all here.

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