Friday, January 27, 2012 - Casino del Sol, Tucson AZ
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Lamb Shank Stew, January 24, 2012
I'm off
My dear friend Jane is flying in to Tuscon and we're off with my pot of stew to go see what all the ruckus at Quartzsite AZ is about. Something drags the RV crowd out there this time of year and we're going to check it out.
Night camp
Boondocked - Casino del Sol, 5655 West Valencia Rd, Tucson AZ
- Good Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here at Casino del Sol
- Locate Casino del Sol on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Waiting
I remember walking in art galleries, through the nineteenth century: the obsession they had then with harems. Dozens of paintings of harems, fat women lolling on divans,turbans on their heads, or velvet caps, being fanned with peacock tails, a eunich in the background standing guard. Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there. These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom.
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood