Elephante Blanche by Bijou O’Keefe

Tag: travel

  • Heavy Head

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    In my continuing historical fiction fascination, I started watching Marie Antoinette, directed by Sofia Coppola. She and the King are waiting for the guillotine. So, I started thinking about how much a human head weighs. Thank you Wikipedia, it weighs between 10 and 11 lbs. In Marie Antoinette’s case you can add 30lbs to that…

  • Porte Bandera

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    June 14th is Flag Day. It was also the birthday of a fellow I used to work for, James Maxwell Baldwin. He was of British descent and sort of starchy. Which agrees with a sturdy flag. O’er the ramparts… imagine Betsy Ross making the first flag without a sewing machine. Durable in rain, sleet or…

  • Reboot!

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    My buddy, this iPad, decided to go black. Nothing. Black screen. I tried various things without success. So, a trip to the Apple Store downtown SF. I was there for about four hours. It – the iPad – needed a reboot which took maybe forty minutes. In doing so, everything was erased, or so it…

  • Water galore

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    Today was going as planned. My to-do list was done and we had another pleasant, weekly Zoom chat with my sisters. I live in a large city block, three story building called Project Artaud after Antonine Artaud, the French revolutionary theater artist. In 1973, what was formerly the American Can Company was converted into artists’…