tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post5264329084197572404..comments2023-09-26T10:38:21.961-04:00Comments on The View From the Last House in America: I Have Lived for Art...Kim Velkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06729808121762572706noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-20633553406528383442009-10-04T08:29:45.941-04:002009-10-04T08:29:45.941-04:00Deborah - Bless you. I will grant that you are an...Deborah - Bless you. I will grant that you are an artist. I am an aspiring artist. Are you an exotic there in Kansas? I guess you must be. I think they need you there - maybe like a kind of artist missionary?<br /><br />R- Anyone who writes so sweetly about his wife after, what, about 20 years of marriage? is safe from the Marcellos of the world.<br /><br />Reanna - Thanks so much for stopping by and the various fives. If I see your T-shirt next time I'm in Montreal I'll know it's you and give you a high five.<br /><br />Lulu - Do you think Rome might be a little far south? But of course, you are the most adventurous traveler of my acquaintance - and so ready to mingle with the locals! <br />I am impressed beyond words by your recent encounter with the bakers of Lesbos. I think you are both friendlier and bolder even then my Italian alter ego. Sometime you must explain to us all what took you off to Greece.Kim Velkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06729808121762572706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-39514024304141883472009-10-02T03:12:53.129-04:002009-10-02T03:12:53.129-04:00You have to do it K - you know you do, and you'...You have to do it K - you know you do, and you'd love it. Can I come and visit you in your Roman villa? We would go out cruising on your Vespa and drink Campari Soda.Lulu LaBonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05546286547273386382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-58986937760663745752009-10-01T22:34:31.879-04:002009-10-01T22:34:31.879-04:00Great post. Hilarious in fact. I'm pretty sure...Great post. Hilarious in fact. I'm pretty sure on those idle hour t-shirt making days I would also go the artistic route and make a shirt saying, "fuck art let's dance."<br /><br />Sending you a virtual high five, low five. Happy to have met through the ever entertaining and fun swell life. <br /><br />xoReannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04820010147433872975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-88559579038265343072009-10-01T10:23:05.191-04:002009-10-01T10:23:05.191-04:00Nan mentioned the "Tuscan Sun" movie, a ...Nan mentioned the "Tuscan Sun" movie, a film which my wife likes way to much for my comfort level. Too many buff Italian guys stealing attractive middle aged women. In view of the fact that I'm a short middle-aged, gray-haired guy, married to an attractive woman, I get a little queasy when I see those wistful looks.<br /><br />Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-12531819577569639252009-10-01T10:13:01.376-04:002009-10-01T10:13:01.376-04:00and if you are an Easterner living in the Mid-West...and if you are an Easterner living in the Mid-West ANYTHING you do, say or wear, is regarded as exotic....<br /><br />hmmm, do i exaggerate? only slightly as the crap clothing i wear in the studio matches what the farming community wears....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-11506367874498635162009-10-01T10:09:46.689-04:002009-10-01T10:09:46.689-04:00the grand thing about being an artist, darling, is...the grand thing about being an artist, darling, is you don't give a damn whether you are fashionable or not - it is the freedom to be eccentric, unfashionable, passionate and outspoken, for after all you are an artist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-65943622590221156192009-09-30T21:45:54.011-04:002009-09-30T21:45:54.011-04:00Nan - my dear fellow New Englander. The Tuscan s...Nan - my dear fellow New Englander. The Tuscan sun, even in October, is hard on my complexion but I would risk it to see Marcello again. He was a great friend of Giancarlo's once - and I think they have made things up since that unfortunate, hmmm, misunderstanding in Milan. (Really, we are just very good friends, Marcello and I). Perhaps you would care to join us? There's room in the Fiat for one more. Giancarlo can take the train and go on ahead to get things arranged for us all at the villa. Let me know what your good dates might be.Kim Velkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06729808121762572706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-11168239114318568132009-09-30T14:49:43.280-04:002009-09-30T14:49:43.280-04:00Oh, my gosh, you are funny! I laughed out loud rea...Oh, my gosh, you are funny! I laughed out loud reading this. I just saw a clip on tv from the movie, Under the Tuscan Sun and there was a great line - the Italian guy says his name is Marcello, and the American woman says, of course it is.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15547916206007733970noreply@blogger.com