Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: August 2004

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 20" (1939) — Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 20. Frederick Douglass left America to lecture in Great Britain. Here he met some of the most progressive and liberal-minded men in the English speaking world. He made a great speech on Covent Garden Theatre on August 7, 1846, in which he told of the people he represented-how at that moment there were three million colored slaves in the United States. (1939)

Workbook: August, 2004

August 31, 2004: "And now we pause for a very important public service announcement..."
August 30, 2004: There were a small number of songs which helped in that time.
August 29, 2004: Apart from transference she doesn't know how to consume a work...
August 28, 2004: "Charlie, it might sound corny, but the view is really out of this world."
August 27, 2004: Unwanted houseguest.
August 26, 2004: "Go wee wee wee!"
August 25, 2004: Would the struggle be any less difficult...
August 24, 2004: Looking backward from a very young age.
August 23, 2004: He loved Billy Jack.
August 22, 2004: We organized the neighborhood kids to slide down mega-steep Presidio Hill on flattened cardboard boxes.
August 21, 2004: In med school her male colleagues were unwilling to dissect their cadaver's testicles.
August 20, 2004: The students move between classrooms inside laundry carts.
August 19, 2004: Your father is driving you very fast toward a descending steep curve.
August 18, 2004: Or the cross at Mt. Soledad.
August 17, 2004: One day we took a trip to Disneyland.
August 16, 2004: Mission Beach Plunge, early 1970s.
August 15, 2004: The smell of suntan lotion.
August 14, 2004: After two years the ridiculous flags have come down from the homes on Shoreview Avenue...
August 13, 2004: Teenie dudes in high spirits.
August 12, 2004: "Why did you move to San Francisco?"
August 11, 2004: Old friend's voice on a cassette tape.
August 10, 2004: My first true love saw my work as her rival.
August 9, 2004: Comfort means lack of restraint on one's ability to make the other person uncomfortable.
August 8, 2004: Ever met anyone with so much money in their head?
August 7, 2004: Panic, shock, slack-jaw, wide-eye, horror.
August 6, 2004: Panic, shock, slack-jaw, wide-eye, horror, stunned stupid.
August 5, 2004: "I'm sorry, I didn't know," she said sincerely...
August 4, 2004: No subtlety, no sweetness, no passion, no rhythm, no tenderness.
August 3, 2004: How long was it...
August 2, 2004: We locked eyes across a living room crowded with college students high on X.
August 1, 2004: I studied her reflection in the glass.