Friday, March 29, 2013
20 February 1945: Germans Begin The Evacuation Of Danzig
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Lambertz
One of the local food stores has started stocking Henry Lambertz products from Aachen, Germany. Lambertz was founded in 1688, and has been in business, without interruption, for 325 years.
All Lambertz products are made from all-natural ingredients, and contain no preservatives.
I learned something this week: Lambertz fruit-filled cookies are to die for.
And I have noticed that the Lambertz line of products disappears instantly from local store shelves.
We must not be the only ones with an interest.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
An Outtake From “Metropolis”
It is not often one has the chance to see silent films under optimum conditions.
About a month ago, the Minneapolis Institute Of Arts showed a pristine print of “Wings” on a Saturday afternoon.
Andrew and I talked about going, but we decided to do something else that day.
Rearranging Calendars
Andrew and I have been scratching things off our calendars left and right.
We have been warned off Park Square Theatre’s production of “Or”, a pseudo-Restoration Comedy by Liz Duffy Adams. We have been told that the play itself is the problem—Duffy apparently has rewritten and watered down Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Compleat Female Stage Beauty”, itself a work unworthy of emulation—and we have been cautioned that the text of the play is so gruesomely bad that the production must be avoided at all costs.
On Friday night, at the very last minute, Andrew, Alex and I decided to skip Theatre In The Round’s production of Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well”, our intended project for the evening. We were, at root, not in the mood that night to sit through three hours of Shakespeare—especially since the production, two weeks into the run, has generated zero “buzz” among local theater aficionados.
Owing to lack of interest, we decided to skip Minnesota Opera’s current production of Ambroise Thomas’s “Hamlet”. Andrew says he would beat down the doors of any theater to get into a performance of Thomas’s “Mignon”, but that the composer’s “Hamlet” is not written at the same high level of inspiration.
On Saturday night, Andrew’s parents and Alec and Lizbeth attended a performance of Minnesota Opera’s “Hamlet”—and they reported that the evening was nicht gut. Andrew, Alex and I had a much better time that evening, babysitting the kids.
Penciled into our calendars had been one March performance by the Minnesota Orchestra—but the Minnesota Orchestra remains out of session. Consequently, we shall not hear Mark Wigglesworth lead the orchestra in music of Mozart (Symphony No. 1), Stravinsky (Violin Concerto) and Shostakovich (Symphony No. 10). The soloist was to have been Leila Josefowicz.
Penciled into our calendars had been two March performances by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra—but the SPCO, too, remains out of session. Both SPCO concerts had been scheduled to be conducted by Roberto Abbado, a conductor Andrew and I rather like.
The first SPCO concert was to have featured music of Bartok (Divertimento For String Orchestra), Ravel (Piano Concerto) and Mozart (Symphony No. 38). The soloist was to have been Lisa de la Salle.
The second SPCO concert was to have featured music of Ravel (Le Tombeau de Couperin) and Mozart (Symphony No. 36) as well as contemporary Italian composer Nicola Campogrande, a name totally new to me. The Campogrande work had been a late substitution for a Couperin-inspired piece by Richard Strauss (Divertimento For Small Orchestra), a work that would have made far more thematic sense than the Campogrande.
This coming weekend, in Chicago, we shall encounter a late substitution of a different sort (and, again, a name totally new to me): Christian Macelaru, a conductor stepping in at short notice for an indisposed Pierre Boulez. Macelaru will lead the Chicago Symphony in music of Debussy (Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun), Stravinsky (The Song Of The Nightingale) and Bartok (Divertimento For String Orchestra, Piano Concerto No. 2). The scheduled soloist is Yefim Bronfman.
I think this coming weekend was my one-and-only chance to hear Boulez. Given Boulez’s advanced age, I doubt I shall ever have another opportunity to hear him. I am very disappointed. The appearance of Boulez was our prime motivation for planning a music weekend in Chicago.
Also on our Chicago agenda: performances of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and Puccini’s “La Boheme” at Lyric Opera Of Chicago.
We shall take my sister to all three performances.
We shall see my sister again at the end of the month. She will be on Spring Break the final week of March, and she will fly to the Twin Cities to spend that time with Andrew and me.
In order to offer her what entertainment we can, Andrew and I plan to “bank” all local plays we want to see until my sister arrives: Shakespeare’s “The Taming Of The Shrew” at The Guthrie; Ron Hutchinson’s “Moonlight And Magnolias” at Bloomington Civic Theatre; Alan Ayckbourn’s “Life And Beth” at Theatre In The Round; and Ira Levin’s “Deathtrap” at Jungle Theater.
I suspect my sister will prefer to see a few plays rather than have Andrew and me attempt to amuse her by reenacting scenes from Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”.
We have been warned off Park Square Theatre’s production of “Or”, a pseudo-Restoration Comedy by Liz Duffy Adams. We have been told that the play itself is the problem—Duffy apparently has rewritten and watered down Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Compleat Female Stage Beauty”, itself a work unworthy of emulation—and we have been cautioned that the text of the play is so gruesomely bad that the production must be avoided at all costs.
On Friday night, at the very last minute, Andrew, Alex and I decided to skip Theatre In The Round’s production of Shakespeare’s “All’s Well That Ends Well”, our intended project for the evening. We were, at root, not in the mood that night to sit through three hours of Shakespeare—especially since the production, two weeks into the run, has generated zero “buzz” among local theater aficionados.
Owing to lack of interest, we decided to skip Minnesota Opera’s current production of Ambroise Thomas’s “Hamlet”. Andrew says he would beat down the doors of any theater to get into a performance of Thomas’s “Mignon”, but that the composer’s “Hamlet” is not written at the same high level of inspiration.
On Saturday night, Andrew’s parents and Alec and Lizbeth attended a performance of Minnesota Opera’s “Hamlet”—and they reported that the evening was nicht gut. Andrew, Alex and I had a much better time that evening, babysitting the kids.
Penciled into our calendars had been one March performance by the Minnesota Orchestra—but the Minnesota Orchestra remains out of session. Consequently, we shall not hear Mark Wigglesworth lead the orchestra in music of Mozart (Symphony No. 1), Stravinsky (Violin Concerto) and Shostakovich (Symphony No. 10). The soloist was to have been Leila Josefowicz.
Penciled into our calendars had been two March performances by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra—but the SPCO, too, remains out of session. Both SPCO concerts had been scheduled to be conducted by Roberto Abbado, a conductor Andrew and I rather like.
The first SPCO concert was to have featured music of Bartok (Divertimento For String Orchestra), Ravel (Piano Concerto) and Mozart (Symphony No. 38). The soloist was to have been Lisa de la Salle.
The second SPCO concert was to have featured music of Ravel (Le Tombeau de Couperin) and Mozart (Symphony No. 36) as well as contemporary Italian composer Nicola Campogrande, a name totally new to me. The Campogrande work had been a late substitution for a Couperin-inspired piece by Richard Strauss (Divertimento For Small Orchestra), a work that would have made far more thematic sense than the Campogrande.
This coming weekend, in Chicago, we shall encounter a late substitution of a different sort (and, again, a name totally new to me): Christian Macelaru, a conductor stepping in at short notice for an indisposed Pierre Boulez. Macelaru will lead the Chicago Symphony in music of Debussy (Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun), Stravinsky (The Song Of The Nightingale) and Bartok (Divertimento For String Orchestra, Piano Concerto No. 2). The scheduled soloist is Yefim Bronfman.
I think this coming weekend was my one-and-only chance to hear Boulez. Given Boulez’s advanced age, I doubt I shall ever have another opportunity to hear him. I am very disappointed. The appearance of Boulez was our prime motivation for planning a music weekend in Chicago.
Also on our Chicago agenda: performances of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and Puccini’s “La Boheme” at Lyric Opera Of Chicago.
We shall take my sister to all three performances.
We shall see my sister again at the end of the month. She will be on Spring Break the final week of March, and she will fly to the Twin Cities to spend that time with Andrew and me.
In order to offer her what entertainment we can, Andrew and I plan to “bank” all local plays we want to see until my sister arrives: Shakespeare’s “The Taming Of The Shrew” at The Guthrie; Ron Hutchinson’s “Moonlight And Magnolias” at Bloomington Civic Theatre; Alan Ayckbourn’s “Life And Beth” at Theatre In The Round; and Ira Levin’s “Deathtrap” at Jungle Theater.
I suspect my sister will prefer to see a few plays rather than have Andrew and me attempt to amuse her by reenacting scenes from Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis”.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
“Her Only Friend Is The Bradford Exchange”
Below is the daily record of our stalker’s visits for the week of November 26, the week after Thanksgiving.
All stalker visits for the week originated from ISP address 71.36.205.124, registered in Cottage Grove, Oregon, and Elmira, Oregon.
All times are Pacific Standard Time, the time zone of our stalker.
Visits longer than twenty minutes in duration are noted.
________________________________________________
Monday, November 26, 2012
10:05 a.m. PST ***
1:28 p.m. PST
3:46 p.m. PST
10:43 p.m. PST
11:20 p.m. PST **
*** This visit by our stalker was two hours and ten minutes in duration, during which she visited fifty-one pages and—once again—repeatedly searched for “Matthew Halls” and “John Evans”. Law-enforcement authorities were later able to explain to us why our stalker had repeatedly searched for “Matthew Halls” and “John Evans”.
** This visit by our stalker was forty-two minutes in duration, and involved a visit to fifty pages.
________________________________________________
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
10:26 a.m. PST
12:40 p.m. PST
3:40 p.m. PST
10:45 p.m. PST ***
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-five minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty-three pages.
________________________________________________
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
9:10 a.m. PST
2:18 p.m. PST
10:36 p.m. PST
11:30 p.m. PST ***
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Thursday, November 29, 2012
11:26 a.m. PST
2:19 p.m. PST ***
4:04 p.m. PST **
6:09 p.m. PST
8:09 p.m. PST
9:41 p.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-three minutes in duration.
** This visit by our stalker was thirty-five minutes in duration, and involved a visit to nineteen pages.
________________________________________________
Friday, November 30, 2012
9:51 a.m. PST
10:34 a.m. PST
11:08 a.m. PST ***
12:03 p.m. PST **
3:03 p.m. PST *
4:34 p.m. PST
5:12 p.m. PST ###
6:16 p.m. PST ##
7:49 p.m. PST
8:02 p.m. PST
8:56 p.m. PST
9:40 p.m. PST #
*** This visit by our stalker was thirty-five minutes in duration, and involved a visit to seventeen pages.
** This visit by our stalker was fifty-one minutes in duration, and involved a visit to thirteen pages.
* This visit by our stalker was twenty-two minutes in duration.
### This visit by our stalker was twenty minutes in duration.
## This visit by our stalker was thirty minutes in duration, and involved a visit to eighteen pages.
# This visit by our stalker was twenty-one minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Saturday, December 1, 2012
9:51 a.m. PST
12:39 p.m. PST
4:17 p.m. PST
8:38 p.m. PST ***
10:56 p.m. PST **
*** This visit by our stalker was one hour and fourteen minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty-one pages.
** This visit by our stalker was twenty-seven minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Sunday, December 2, 2012
8:11 a.m. PST
10:24 a.m. PST
4:19 p.m. PST ***
9:41 p.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-eight minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Our stalker is a middle-aged, unbalanced woman from Springfield, Oregon, who works on a part-time basis for the Eugene Symphony and the Oregon Bach Festival.
She is of no more than average intelligence, if that, of very poor educational background, and in possession of neither judgment nor sophistication. Over the last couple of decades, she has been employed in an assortment of low-paying jobs, always earning salaries slightly more than the poverty line.
When she is not stalking us, the woman spends her time in an organized campaign of defamation and harassment against the Minnesota Orchestra, entering literally thousands of anti-Minnesota Orchestra comments all over the worldwide web (including on Minnesota Orchestra’s Facebook, which as a practical matter she has taken over).
No doubt the Minnesota Orchestra and its officials will initiate legal proceedings against her once the current labor troubles are resolved.
The statute of limitations will begin to run only on the date of the woman’s final comment on any forum, which gives the Minnesota Orchestra—and individuals affiliated with the Minnesota Orchestra—more than ample time to proceed against her in coming years.
The woman is married—and the Minnesota Orchestra and its officials will be able to collect equally against assets of both spouses (including retirement plans), into perpetuity, until any judgments are satisfied.
All stalker visits for the week originated from ISP address 71.36.205.124, registered in Cottage Grove, Oregon, and Elmira, Oregon.
All times are Pacific Standard Time, the time zone of our stalker.
Visits longer than twenty minutes in duration are noted.
________________________________________________
Monday, November 26, 2012
10:05 a.m. PST ***
1:28 p.m. PST
3:46 p.m. PST
10:43 p.m. PST
11:20 p.m. PST **
*** This visit by our stalker was two hours and ten minutes in duration, during which she visited fifty-one pages and—once again—repeatedly searched for “Matthew Halls” and “John Evans”. Law-enforcement authorities were later able to explain to us why our stalker had repeatedly searched for “Matthew Halls” and “John Evans”.
** This visit by our stalker was forty-two minutes in duration, and involved a visit to fifty pages.
________________________________________________
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
10:26 a.m. PST
12:40 p.m. PST
3:40 p.m. PST
10:45 p.m. PST ***
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-five minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty-three pages.
________________________________________________
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
9:10 a.m. PST
2:18 p.m. PST
10:36 p.m. PST
11:30 p.m. PST ***
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Thursday, November 29, 2012
11:26 a.m. PST
2:19 p.m. PST ***
4:04 p.m. PST **
6:09 p.m. PST
8:09 p.m. PST
9:41 p.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-three minutes in duration.
** This visit by our stalker was thirty-five minutes in duration, and involved a visit to nineteen pages.
________________________________________________
Friday, November 30, 2012
9:51 a.m. PST
10:34 a.m. PST
11:08 a.m. PST ***
12:03 p.m. PST **
3:03 p.m. PST *
4:34 p.m. PST
5:12 p.m. PST ###
6:16 p.m. PST ##
7:49 p.m. PST
8:02 p.m. PST
8:56 p.m. PST
9:40 p.m. PST #
*** This visit by our stalker was thirty-five minutes in duration, and involved a visit to seventeen pages.
** This visit by our stalker was fifty-one minutes in duration, and involved a visit to thirteen pages.
* This visit by our stalker was twenty-two minutes in duration.
### This visit by our stalker was twenty minutes in duration.
## This visit by our stalker was thirty minutes in duration, and involved a visit to eighteen pages.
# This visit by our stalker was twenty-one minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Saturday, December 1, 2012
9:51 a.m. PST
12:39 p.m. PST
4:17 p.m. PST
8:38 p.m. PST ***
10:56 p.m. PST **
*** This visit by our stalker was one hour and fourteen minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty-one pages.
** This visit by our stalker was twenty-seven minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Sunday, December 2, 2012
8:11 a.m. PST
10:24 a.m. PST
4:19 p.m. PST ***
9:41 p.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-eight minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Our stalker is a middle-aged, unbalanced woman from Springfield, Oregon, who works on a part-time basis for the Eugene Symphony and the Oregon Bach Festival.
She is of no more than average intelligence, if that, of very poor educational background, and in possession of neither judgment nor sophistication. Over the last couple of decades, she has been employed in an assortment of low-paying jobs, always earning salaries slightly more than the poverty line.
When she is not stalking us, the woman spends her time in an organized campaign of defamation and harassment against the Minnesota Orchestra, entering literally thousands of anti-Minnesota Orchestra comments all over the worldwide web (including on Minnesota Orchestra’s Facebook, which as a practical matter she has taken over).
No doubt the Minnesota Orchestra and its officials will initiate legal proceedings against her once the current labor troubles are resolved.
The statute of limitations will begin to run only on the date of the woman’s final comment on any forum, which gives the Minnesota Orchestra—and individuals affiliated with the Minnesota Orchestra—more than ample time to proceed against her in coming years.
The woman is married—and the Minnesota Orchestra and its officials will be able to collect equally against assets of both spouses (including retirement plans), into perpetuity, until any judgments are satisfied.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
“Her Clothes Look Like Automobile Seat Covers From Fingerhut”
It was the weekend before Thanksgiving that we realized we had a stalker.
Late Saturday night, November 17, I was glancing through my Sitemeter and Statcounter logs for the day when I noticed that a visitor had spent more than seven hours on my weblog—searching for information about Andrew’s mother.
I immediately told Andrew to look through his Sitemeter and Statcounter logs for the day—and Andrew discovered that the very same visitor had spent more than nine hours on his weblog, once again searching for information about Andrew’s mother.
The following day, we shared the Sitemeter and Statcounter logs with everyone in the family—and Lizbeth, a psychiatrist, was quick to inform us that we had classic stalker behavior on our hands.
We immediately upgraded our Sitemeter and Statcounter accounts, installed a third monitoring device, and began recording and preserving the visits of our stalker.
Below is the daily record of our stalker’s visits for the week of November 19, Thanksgiving Week. For continuity purposes, visits in the early-morning hours are treated as late-night visits from the previous day.
All stalker visits during Thanksgiving Week originated from ISP address 71.36.205.124, registered in Cottage Grove, Oregon, and Elmira, Oregon. Our stalker’s ISP address was to change more than once in coming weeks—and the frequency of the stalker’s visits was to accelerate, as readers will observe as I publish our stalker’s week-by-week visits.
All times are Pacific Standard Time, the time zone of our stalker.
Visits longer than twenty minutes in length are noted.
________________________________________________
Monday, November 19, 2012
8:27 a.m. PST ***
1:24 p.m. PST
1:52 p.m. PST
2:06 p.m. PST **
3:34 p.m. PST
5:06 p.m. PST *
5:45 p.m. PST
6:29 p.m. PST
6:34 p.m. PST
7:54 p.m. PST
9:16 p.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was two hours and forty-nine minutes in duration, during which she visited thirty-two pages and repeatedly searched for “Matthew Halls” and “John Evans”. Law-enforcement authorities were later able to explain to us why our stalker had repeatedly searched for “Matthew Halls” and “John Evans”.
** This visit by our stalker was forty-one minutes in duration.
* This visit by our stalker was twenty-nine minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
7:45 a.m. PST
10:01 a.m. PST
10:16 a.m. PST
11:01 a.m. PST
3:30 p.m. PST
5:32 p.m. PST
7:00 p.m. PST
9:31 p.m. PST
11:40 p.m. PST
12:34 a.m. PST ***
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-four minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 (Thanksgiving Eve)
7:52 a.m. PST
9:31 a.m. PST
9:48 a.m. PST ***
11:40 a.m. PST
12:34 p.m. PST **
1:44 p.m. PST
5:49 p.m. PST
10:53 p.m. PST
11:28 p.m. PST
12:02 a.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-five minutes in duration.
** This visit by our stalker was twenty-six minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Thursday, November 22, 2012 (Thanksgiving Day)
3:04 p.m. PST ***
12:08 a.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was thirty-one minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Friday, November 23, 2012 (Black Friday)
11:10 a.m. PST
2:33 p.m. PST
3:09 p.m. PST ***
9:34 p.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-two minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty pages.
________________________________________________
Saturday, November 24, 2012
10:53 a.m. PST ***
4:52 p.m. PST **
10:41 p.m. PST
11:52 p.m. PST *
12:30 a.m. PST ###
*** This visit by our stalker was fifty-six minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty-four pages.
** This visit by our stalker was twenty-three minutes in duration.
* This visit by our stalker was twenty-one minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twelve pages.
### This visit by our stalker was one hour and five minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty pages.
________________________________________________
Sunday, November 25, 2012
9:29 a.m. PST
9:49 p.m. PST
________________________________________________
Thanks to law-enforcement authorities, we know virtually everything there is to know about our stalker, a middle-aged, mentally-ill woman from Springfield, Oregon. I knew law-enforcement techniques for monitoring people were good—yet, as I was to learn, they go far beyond anything I had ever envisioned.
I plan never to give the government cause to monitor me!
Late Saturday night, November 17, I was glancing through my Sitemeter and Statcounter logs for the day when I noticed that a visitor had spent more than seven hours on my weblog—searching for information about Andrew’s mother.
I immediately told Andrew to look through his Sitemeter and Statcounter logs for the day—and Andrew discovered that the very same visitor had spent more than nine hours on his weblog, once again searching for information about Andrew’s mother.
The following day, we shared the Sitemeter and Statcounter logs with everyone in the family—and Lizbeth, a psychiatrist, was quick to inform us that we had classic stalker behavior on our hands.
We immediately upgraded our Sitemeter and Statcounter accounts, installed a third monitoring device, and began recording and preserving the visits of our stalker.
Below is the daily record of our stalker’s visits for the week of November 19, Thanksgiving Week. For continuity purposes, visits in the early-morning hours are treated as late-night visits from the previous day.
All stalker visits during Thanksgiving Week originated from ISP address 71.36.205.124, registered in Cottage Grove, Oregon, and Elmira, Oregon. Our stalker’s ISP address was to change more than once in coming weeks—and the frequency of the stalker’s visits was to accelerate, as readers will observe as I publish our stalker’s week-by-week visits.
All times are Pacific Standard Time, the time zone of our stalker.
Visits longer than twenty minutes in length are noted.
________________________________________________
Monday, November 19, 2012
8:27 a.m. PST ***
1:24 p.m. PST
1:52 p.m. PST
2:06 p.m. PST **
3:34 p.m. PST
5:06 p.m. PST *
5:45 p.m. PST
6:29 p.m. PST
6:34 p.m. PST
7:54 p.m. PST
9:16 p.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was two hours and forty-nine minutes in duration, during which she visited thirty-two pages and repeatedly searched for “Matthew Halls” and “John Evans”. Law-enforcement authorities were later able to explain to us why our stalker had repeatedly searched for “Matthew Halls” and “John Evans”.
** This visit by our stalker was forty-one minutes in duration.
* This visit by our stalker was twenty-nine minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
7:45 a.m. PST
10:01 a.m. PST
10:16 a.m. PST
11:01 a.m. PST
3:30 p.m. PST
5:32 p.m. PST
7:00 p.m. PST
9:31 p.m. PST
11:40 p.m. PST
12:34 a.m. PST ***
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-four minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 (Thanksgiving Eve)
7:52 a.m. PST
9:31 a.m. PST
9:48 a.m. PST ***
11:40 a.m. PST
12:34 p.m. PST **
1:44 p.m. PST
5:49 p.m. PST
10:53 p.m. PST
11:28 p.m. PST
12:02 a.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-five minutes in duration.
** This visit by our stalker was twenty-six minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Thursday, November 22, 2012 (Thanksgiving Day)
3:04 p.m. PST ***
12:08 a.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was thirty-one minutes in duration.
________________________________________________
Friday, November 23, 2012 (Black Friday)
11:10 a.m. PST
2:33 p.m. PST
3:09 p.m. PST ***
9:34 p.m. PST
*** This visit by our stalker was twenty-two minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty pages.
________________________________________________
Saturday, November 24, 2012
10:53 a.m. PST ***
4:52 p.m. PST **
10:41 p.m. PST
11:52 p.m. PST *
12:30 a.m. PST ###
*** This visit by our stalker was fifty-six minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty-four pages.
** This visit by our stalker was twenty-three minutes in duration.
* This visit by our stalker was twenty-one minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twelve pages.
### This visit by our stalker was one hour and five minutes in duration, and involved a visit to twenty pages.
________________________________________________
Sunday, November 25, 2012
9:29 a.m. PST
9:49 p.m. PST
________________________________________________
Thanks to law-enforcement authorities, we know virtually everything there is to know about our stalker, a middle-aged, mentally-ill woman from Springfield, Oregon. I knew law-enforcement techniques for monitoring people were good—yet, as I was to learn, they go far beyond anything I had ever envisioned.
I plan never to give the government cause to monitor me!
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
First Thing In The Morning, Last Thing At Night
Below are Monday’s visits to our weblog by our stalker, a middle-aged, mentally-ill woman from Springfield, Oregon, who works part-time for the Eugene Symphony. All times are Pacific Standard Time.
7:51 a.m. PST
9:40 a.m. PST
10:22 a.m. PST
11:30 a.m. PST
12:09 p.m. PST
12:43 p.m. PST
4:16 p.m. PST
5:57 p.m. PST
7:23 p.m. PST
11:33 p.m. PST
12:30 a.m. PST
We have been recording the madwoman’s visits since November, preserving visitor logs, and Monday’s visits were fully in keeping with the madwoman’s standard daily routine.
Since December, the madwoman’s activities have been monitored by law-enforcement authorities, and authorities have kept us up-to-date on her comings and goings. For instance, we were contacted as soon as she booked a recent trip to the Twin Cities, and given the particulars of her travel arrangements so as to allow us to take necessary precautions.
The Eugene Symphony has a major problem on its hands.
7:51 a.m. PST
9:40 a.m. PST
10:22 a.m. PST
11:30 a.m. PST
12:09 p.m. PST
12:43 p.m. PST
4:16 p.m. PST
5:57 p.m. PST
7:23 p.m. PST
11:33 p.m. PST
12:30 a.m. PST
We have been recording the madwoman’s visits since November, preserving visitor logs, and Monday’s visits were fully in keeping with the madwoman’s standard daily routine.
Since December, the madwoman’s activities have been monitored by law-enforcement authorities, and authorities have kept us up-to-date on her comings and goings. For instance, we were contacted as soon as she booked a recent trip to the Twin Cities, and given the particulars of her travel arrangements so as to allow us to take necessary precautions.
The Eugene Symphony has a major problem on its hands.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
A Room With A View
The bad weather this week has not bothered us, nor interfered with our plans. Nonetheless, there has been less walking, and more use of the Paris Metro, than we had anticipated.
We knew, when we booked our trip, that January weather in Paris might be less than ideal.
Friday, January 25, 2013
“Miss Peters May Have Had A Bad Night, But The Paris Opera Has Had A Bad Century”
The Grand Staircase (and I believe such is the correct proper name) of Palais Garnier, whose interior I saw for the first time yesterday.
Performance quality notwithstanding (and there was perhaps more wit than truth in Rudolf Bing’s famous rejoinder, a dose of acid flung at Paris’s music critics), the Paris Opera is a remarkable institution simply because Palais Garnier is one of its two homes (the other is L'Opéra Bastille, where we caught Tuesday night’s performance of “Khovanshchina”). The building makes a “statement”, inside and out, wherever one looks.
In fact, the entire city of Paris makes a “statement”.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
The Grande Galerie 1942
In anticipation of the coming conflagration, French authorities began removing artworks from the Louvre in early 1938, more than eighteen months before the onset of war. By late 1939, six months prior to Germany’s invasion of France, the Louvre was empty—aside from artworks too heavy to transport.
Frames shorn of their canvases remained behind and were left in place in the galleries, all for the purpose of matching artworks and frames once the war had ended.
Eugène Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading The People” was not to be found in The Grande Galerie yesterday; the painting is currently on view at the satellite Louvre in Northern France.
I was not disappointed, given all the giant Jacques-Louis David masterworks on display—but Andrew and Alex immediately noted the Delacroix’s absence and directed inquires to a guard, who said that the painting had been transported to Lens for a few months.