Comments on: Emerald Blooper

By: forrest

forrest — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:13:31 +0000

Thanks for the kind comments, Gardner. Hope you are doing well at Baylor. Come see the show!

By: xensen

xensen — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:56:02 +0000

Thanks, Roberta. I’m glad you will be buying the catalogue (which I feel is one of the best we’ve done). I think we will include an erratum slip — this is the only error we know about to this point — although we won’t be able to have a color image on it; perhaps it will reference this blog post.

By: Gardner Campbell

Gardner Campbell — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:14:01 +0000

Oh, this is wonderful–not the mistake, though as all the commenters have noted, it has its own capacity to embody and evoke wonder–but to find the blog and hear your voice so clearly and unmistakeably. A new set of splendors to explore, and the chance to reconnect with a mentor and teacher and wonderful colleague from a few years back (indeed). Confess, create, and continue to thrive, my friend!

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:30:51 +0000

As the ultimate and proper mea culpa, will the correct photograph be slipped into all the catalogs so that buyers will be enlightened as to the true temple? I myself intend to buy the catalog so it would be nice to have the right photograph. Or have them available at the store next to the catalog display so people can pick one up and slip it in themselves.

By: xensen

xensen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:52:40 +0000

On one of Gary Snyder’s books he is identified on the spine as “Gary Synder” and I myself … er, well, never mind.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:48:04 +0000

You know what – this is probably an “imperfection” to prevent hubris and being smitted (smote?zapped?) by some angry deity. When I lived in Turkey, our cook was Kurdish. She came from a family of weavers and had woven carpets when she was little but when she got older, her hands were too big to tie the tiny knots. She told me that the weavers always leave a tiny imperfection, perhaps a thread unknotted, to show that they acknowledge their imperfect selves. This is so they don’t challenge The Creator by pretending to be perfect or by creating something that mimics the perfection of creation that can only come from God.
Or you can always claim that Mercury was retrograde.
Now, after that I certainly think we are all ready to have that beer and Thai food.

By: cristina

cristina — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:39:07 +0000

Considering what a beautiful catalog it is, perhaps this is your one token imperfection?

By: sfmike

sfmike — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:29:55 +0000

Nonesuch Records has been on a printing proof disaster roll lately. They printed the libretto to John Adams’ oratorio “A Flowering Tree,” with Act I followed by lots of photos…and then, instead of the words to Act II, they printed Act I all over again.

Last month they also released David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony playing John Adams’ new “Doctor Atomic Symphony.” Only problem was that in big, block letters it said, “DAVID ROBERSTON.”

By: bittermelon

bittermelon — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:46:03 +0000

Great “confessional” entry. The first step is always acknowledgment / acceptance, right? Honest mistakes happen all the time. And hey, look at it this way. Now the rest of us mere mortals are feeling okay that even the chief curator can make a mistake every once in awhile!

As (one of) the resident picky eater(s), I’ll have to concur with Maitree’s recommended restaurant. It’s quite excellent; you’ll feel better in no time.

By: xensen

xensen — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:52:44 +0000

Good advice, Maitree. (Actually the Indian temple is the copy and the Thai one is the original.)