Michelangelo Merisi's occasional verse and jail time

A few years ago I was writing a bunch of occasional verse and really enjoying it.  So I was tickled reading Francine Prose's description of the verse Caravaggio and a handful of his fellows were accused of writing (and jailed for) about their hated rival, Baglione following the unveiling of one of Baglione's paintings of the Resurrection. 

The verses predict that Baglione's utter lack of talent would soon reduce him to the point at which he could no longer afford the cloth for breeches to cover his naked behind.  They suggest that he bring his drawings to the grocer, or use them for toilet paper, or give them to the wife of Baglione's friend Tommaso Salini (a hugely unpopular and notoriously nasty painter), who could put them in her vagina so as to prevent Salini from having sex with her.  The poems refer repeatedly to the sore subject of the gold chain: Baglioni is undeserving and unfit to wear it; an iron chain around his ankles would be more appropriate.

happy ninth anniversary to...

Mark W and his always formidable wood s lot.

my favorite muslim...

aka Richard Thompson: link to today's Fresh Air (NPR) show on RT and release of new boxed set celebrating his 40 year career. Juju only wishes he could play with half the dexterity and ability that RT makes look so easy, and on top of all that, RT be one hell of a songwriter.

add'l linky bits:
BeesWeb, official RT website;
halfway decent RT guitar tablature site;
YouTubeish linkage - RT Guitar School
(more related video on the page);
from Guitar Player online - Richard Thompson;
via Innerviews, Richard Thompson, Narrative Journeys;
R. Thompson, Sway into Emotion;
the Night Light RT interview;
via The Hook, Oct 2006,
1000 years, Thompson's Long Look at History;
RT, Master Craftsman, from Performing Musician;
13 Conversations about Richard Thompson;
a personal tribute to RT c.1997;
a fan's notes, c.2007;
HuffPost, Sept 2007, Publish & Be Damned;
Salon, Aug. 1999, Everyone has their own cliches;
mess o'misc RT related items via Acoustic Guitar online

share the experience, vicariously....

longtime bloggo favorito Cardhouse makes substantial mention of roadtrip recently experienced thru PA NV CO UT MI CA OH IN IL NE IA AZ WI, by car and rail. Makes Juju want to jump ship here at NoNo HQ and head off for some misadventures of our own...

and hey, can you say "Green Chile"?

sure, we knew you could...

Rapha Gentlemen's Race

OK, let's add this to the list of things I will never do in this overweight, asthmatic, and pretty happily undisciplined lifetime. I'm pretty proud of myself when Lota and I ride the bikes from home to a pizza at the Flea and back. I do not ever expect to hear myself say The landjaeger salami I brought for everyone helped out immensely at mile 80...

via bikehugger

Dutch Master - total Brooklyn bike porn

Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Gasp. Core77.

re that Blogger makes it Bigtime story involving...

movie called Julie and Julia or somesuch...
SO...
some young blogger gets bright idea to do all of Julia's recipes and blogs about it, gets bigtime book then movie deal (or sumptin' like dat), ennyway, now we have film about to hit the theatres featuring Ms. M. Streep as Julia alongside the lovely (and how!) Amy "Yum Yum Yum" Adams as the young blogger Julie.

Okay, so me a WEE tiny bit resentful (HAH!), nobody wants to make movie of aging silverback ape fella anyway, no matter his sexual peculiarities, but, jessferdahalibut, and as tribute to SNL of old, here's a great bit from back in the day featuring Danny Ackroyd as Julia...