September 26, 2008

david levine

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I know, I am not blogging too much, but I am enjoying my holidays, I do think I deserve them. I treated myself to a jog on the beach today, shocking huh. I got off the streetcar at Woodbine, jogged all the way down to the end of the boardwalk, and back to Coxwell. Marathons of the world, here I come. And besides all that I am entertaining guests. The famous Mr. S. and Ms. de B. of NRC Handelsblad are in town to visit me, I think that is pretty major. Of course I am not entertaining them the whole time, right now they are at Niagara Falls. I've been there a few times too often, and I really think there are better destinations, but who am I. No self respecting European can go home without having seen the Falls. So they say. Last night for example we had a much better destination. Mr. David Levine himself in person spoke at Piffin's art school. And what a sweet sweet nice man he is. With eyes like beads on fire. I had the nerve to ask him two questions. Of course I had many more, but I didn't want to give myself away. Before the show he had already asked Ellen how many of us three were cartoonists. One and a half, she said.

Posted by eliane at September 26, 2008 03:42 PM
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Funny, I went to the NYRB gallery with Levine's drawings, and I wondered how many Dutch authors he had drawn (three, as far as I can see). It struck me how often he has drawn Marx in the past 45 years. In the Writers-Other category, about every tenth picture is a Karl Marx :-)

Enjoy your holidays!

Posted by: Joost Brummelkamp at September 26, 2008 05:48 PM

He told us his mother was a Marxist, and his aunt a Maoist, or the other way around. And that he has fond memories of their arguments.

Posted by: eliane at September 26, 2008 05:51 PM

schools are brain candy. we are having Alicia Alonso at mine on Monday!

Posted by: ineke at September 27, 2008 09:51 AM

Way to go Eliane, I'm so proud of you jogging on the beach! (Of klinkt dit nu te Californisch?)

Posted by: ann at September 28, 2008 12:03 AM

No no, thank you, I am way proud myself. Plus our beach is very unCalifornian :-) I am the youngest person jogging there, and by far not the worst looking!

Posted by: eliane at September 28, 2008 08:40 AM