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May 14, 2008

Rauschenberg's goat; $10 'surprises'; 100 essential jazz CDs; 'Bonnie & Cyde' snared by hair extensions

Monogram, 1959. Robert Rauschenberg. Part of Our Picasso? at ArtNet
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Robert Rauschenberg: Man at work. A goat story -- a stuffed angora goat story.

The artist discusses his 1959 work Monogram as video of its installation rolls:

 

White elephants online: I imagine two guys with a warehouse full of Job Lot stuff, wondering how to get rid of it. The lightbulb goes on over one's head:

SomethingStore is a fun new website that operates simply: We will send you something, an item selected randomly among many things from our inventory, for $10 (free shipping) and you will find out what your something is when you receive it. What will yours be?

Duct-tape wallet, red sand hourglass, Norelco shaver...

Your something will most likely be brand new, though it may also be refurbished or antique.

Uh-oh.

These will not be your something: "Adult goods and services, Alcohol, Body parts... "

Think it will fly?

 

Musical education: Online Only: 100 Essential Jazz Albums: Online Only: The New Yorker. Classics at The New Yorker, with links that go to Amazon where you can sometimes listen to clips.

Caught by the hair: Feds say hair extensions led to arrest of 'Bonnie and Clyde' | Philadelphia Daily News | 05/13/2008

IN THE END, it was the hair that snagged them.

Jocelyn Kirsch's greedy pursuit of flowing auburn extensions is what finally led to the arrest of both her and her 25-year-old lover, Edward Anderton, thus ending the couple's intricately executed identity-theft scam, federal authorities said yesterday.

The tresses, valued at $2,274 at Center City hair salon Giovanni and Pileggi, were attached to Kirsch, 22, a former Drexel University senior, over 7 1/2 hours in late November. The duo also gave the hair stylist a $250 tip - and a bad check.

Before that, most of the crafty couple's fraud occurred over the Internet, where they purchased items by opening up credit cards, using personal information from friends, co-workers and neighbors in a condo development, the Belgravia, in Center City. But their in-person appearance at Giovanni and Pileggi showed they had become careless, federal authorities said.

"Captured by the hair, that's the joke. But it was the greed of the hair extensions," U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan said yesterday. "Once that check bounced, then there was an ability to go back, actually identify the victim and tie to that a name."

From there, Philadelphia police were able to get descriptions of the suspects and stake out the UPS store in West Philadelphia where one of the victims told cops the couple had opened a mailbox - in her name. One day later, on Nov. 30, the two were nabbed by University of Pennsylvania cops...

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