Marco Siegel-Acevedo
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Birthday
- June 18
- Bio
- Chronincling ongoing tensions in the long and troublesome ménage à trois of Word, Image and Desire, aka Media.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The Striped Coffin: My
Earliest Memory
November 24, 2010 01:13PM - The Objectification of Emma
Watson
May 07, 2009 01:39PM - Air Force One Buzzes Death
Star; Governor Tarkin
"Furious"
April 29, 2009 06:40PM - Images of Bush: "Mirror with a
Memory"
January 27, 2009 09:19AM - Obama's Picture War with the
Media
January 22, 2009 11:54AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Hi Donna! I figure I'll
be a Mad Men fan until they
start
trafficking in too
many…”
November 30, 2010 05:32PM - “Love this post.
Something about old houses
with winding paths
and many
rooms and…”
November 29, 2010 09:56AM - “Yep. That's seems about
right. It just might take a
couple of
monsters to spice
t…”
November 29, 2010 09:40AM - “First: that painterly
image of a girl and her AT-AT
Walker?
Awesome. I want
that…”
November 25, 2010 02:07AM - “Thanks for the kind
words, Jerry. Gary, Padraig:
it's good to
be back. Let's
see…”
November 25, 2010 01:14AM
Marco Siegel-Acevedo's Links
The Striped Coffin: My Earliest Memory
A reconstructed scene: 47 years ago tomorrow I stood before my parents' TV set, nose practically pressed against the tube, with the rapt attention a two-and-a-half year old toddler gives to the demonstration of a new pull toy. I say reconstructed because I have no memory of the… Read full post »
It's a grand but unspoken Hollywood tradition: the child star grows up and becomes sexualized.… Read full post »
Maybe President Obama needs an Image Czar, not merely in the sense of someone qualified to create and manage photo opportunities but someone who would have nixed the ill-considered Air Force One debacle on Monday morning.
The latest government official with egg on his face is Louis E. Calder… Read full post »
photo credits: upper left and right, Paul J.
Rrichards/Agence France-Presse; lower left, J. Scott Applewhite/The
Associated Press; lower right, AP Photo/Charles Dharapak
“The man beholdeth himself in the glass and goeth his way, and straightway both the mirror and the mirrored forget wh… Read full post »
Photo: Pete Souza/The White HouseWell, actually it was more of a skirmish. On Wednesday, the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse refused to distribute images provided by the White House of the President’s activities in the Oval Office during his first full day in office,… Read full post »
10:52 a.m.
I’m at our table in Carolines with my wife Dee (aka Girl
w/Pen) and a happy, mimosa-fueled crowd of feminist confreres
watching as the bi-Presidential caravan heads out from the White
House. (This is unfortunately taking the form of an after-the-fact
dispatch, since I don’t have… Read full post »
THIS is what confronted me this morning in a little camera store Times Square, NYC on my way to the White House Project's Inauguration Watch Party at Carolines' Comedy Club. What happened to the sprawling Times Square newstands selling everything from comics to cigars to, well, I… Read full post »
Since the Obama Administration will stand for change, they should signal this message through their choice of White House pup. I think they should adopt an Alaskan wolf pup orphaned by one of Governor Palin's sniper copters. Too much for Sasha and…
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008. I woke up this morning and decided I wanted to wear a flag pin, for the firs… Read full post »
Election Day Salsa: ¡Obamonos!
As of this morning, Joe the Plumber is a brand as well as a hou… Read full post »
Alba's Tale, Part Four
She turned back from the step, and took Martín again by the hand. She pulled him out to the road and he came along grudgingly, dragging the stick behind him and raising a cloud of gray… Read full post »
Alba's Tale, Part One
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, late 1940s. Alba Martinez awoke at her husband’s first stirrings. She slipped her dry brown feet into h… Read full post »
Alba's Tale, Part Two
Top: the Obama family, barackobama.com October 3,
2008
Bottom: The First Family, Hyannisport, MA, August 4,
1962
A few days ago I was in full ADD mode, surfing the web and breezing through my usual site-haunts, when I decided to take a detour to Obama's website…
The best thing about being newly single back in 2006, believe it or not, was finally having a library. It seemed that no matter how large our series of outer-borough NYC apartments were, living with my ex meant the floor plan never allowed for all of my books being in… Read full post »
The Importance of a Good Bedside Manner
75 years ago there was at least the semblance of transparency. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation directly, in measured tones, pulling no punches, with some expectation that his audience would meet him part of the way even though most of them were not financial experts. He ex… Read full post »
Our Table(tte) for Two
"I think you should get a little round table,"
I offered.
"You know, a bistro."
"Hmm," she said, looking a bit doubtful. As she stared at the empty space in front of the windows, her eyes were filled with that vast table for ten, the one she once… Read full post »
This is the first in a series of posts taking a look at Depression Era culture of the past, and speculating on the Shape of Things to Come. What can we salvage from the past to survive? What are the implicati… Read full post »
Six Vistas for Susan
^ Newport, Rhode Island
^ Pigeon Point, California
^ Tetons Range, Wyoming
^ Taos Ski Area, New Mexico
^ Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
^ Vieques, Puerto Rico
For Susan... some sea, earth… Read full post »
"Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it. You know, I just do things."
&n… Read full post »
Marco Siegel-Acevedo's Favorites
Man Talk Now
jay leffew
Jerry DeNuccio
Somyr Perry
Donna Sandstrom
Mary Joan KochUpdates
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Rigoletto on PBS!
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For Mother
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ManTalkNow’s This Week in Men’s Man Stuff – 03/05/13
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National Penguins Day! Another Look at Adorable Friends
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Paul Levinson reads from Unburning Alexandria
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Happy Fortieth Birthday to My Amazing Daughter
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Barnes & Noble's Nook Unit Falls Off. Ouch.
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Unknown Heroes: A Story for Black History Month
Salon.com