Dear friends,

I can’t stop thinking about Sol LeWitt’s statement that ‘Obviously, a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.’ and Marcel Duchamp’s ‘The title of a painting is another color on the artist’s palette.’

“Care work is largely "invisible work." Like the leap day of February 29th, it is often overlooked. Therefore, Equal Care Day is celebrated on February 29th in leap years and on March 1st in all other years.”

“The Matilda effect is a bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists and inventors, whose work is consequently attributed to their male colleagues.”

From the obituary of Gary McKean Davis (a first cousin, once removed, never met): “He sustained a multitude of injuries, from many car and 4-wheeler accidents, several broken bones, run-ins with fishhooks, a chainsaw incident, rolling down hills while trying to fix sprinklers, getting attacked by hundreds of bees, or simply tripping over his own feet.” In other chainsaw-related links: there’s a chainsaw museum in Clark County, Washington. In other little-museum-related links, there’s a little museum of diaries (Piccolo Museo del Diario) in Italy.

Somebody needs to set a science fiction movie at the Odeillo Solar Furnace, just for the aesthetics.

A Chicago-area public access channel TV show once consisted of “an hour’s broadcast of [a] single written directive … “Destroy Mount Rushmore.””

Search any smell.

August 12, 2017, was Terry Currier Day in Portland, Oregon. Terry is the popularizer of the “Keep Portland Weird” slogan.

Stay well!

Your friend,

Erin