European financial system on the brink … Steve Jobs dead at 56 …. distraction and dissolution everywhere. It all feels so dire. Not sure whether this photo of major meshuggenah, Harry Houdini, will lighten your mood or not. Something in this shot of Mr. Ball-and-Chain spoke to me. Seems to suit the zeitgeist.
World, could’ja please take it easy tomorrow?
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- What a guy! Harry Houdini.
- Following in Houdini’s penchant for the “site specific,” Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has an outing in a parking lot in Glendale next weekend.
Photo courtesy of The Skirball Cultural Center from their superb Houdini: Art & Magic show (now closed)
eisenstadt,
gered mankowitz, photog, 1967
“the red danube” (1949)
