Walking down the beach in Mexico, we stumbled upon America’s sweetheart, Paris Hilton, who upon learning London’s name, said “I’d love to name my kid that.” Then the pose. Here’s the shot:
Things Nicholson Baker knows a lot about: shoelaces, paper towels, CVS, escalators, and peanut butter. I’ve been teaching his first book The Mezzanine and excerpts from a whole slew of others including a children’s book (The Everlasting Story of Nory), essays on thinking (The Size of Thoughts), a book that reexamines World War II by using clips from magazine and newspaper articles (Human Smoke) and other plotless (not pointless) novels that are awfully compelling (Room Temperature, Checkpoint, A Box of Matches). Whether you know Baker because of these works, more sexy tomes (Vox, The Fermata), as Google Books’ favorite author, or as the guy who spent his retirement trying to save historic newspapers (see Doublefold), no one writes a digressive sentence like this man. See him live at the Lensic on Wednesday, January 20th at 7:00 p.m. as part of Lannan’s Readings and Conversations series. I’ll be there with about 54 others who are fascinated with little bags.
Lead singer John Joseph McCauley III mingles with the youth
On Wednesday night, in a gesture of true community spirit, Corazon owner (& local legend) Mikey Baker shut down his bar so a group of local Santa Fe teens could watch their favorite band Deer Tick perform a mini-set. Kids ranging in ages from 13-18 watched in awe as the Rhode Island natives took requests and played for 45 minutes before Corazon opened its doors to those with IDs and shooed out those who had class the next day. Baker says he hopes to host an all-ages show sometime in the future so music fans under 21 won’t have to listen outside the club doors in the cold.
The Santa Fe Reporter
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