{"id":1237,"date":"2010-06-17T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2014-02-04T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T20:17:39","slug":"the-culture-diaries-rita-konig-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/the-culture-diaries-rita-konig-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week in Culture: Rita Konig, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is the second installment of Rita Konig&#8217;s culture diary. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/the-culture-diaries-rita-konig\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read part 1<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<h3>DAY FOUR<\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ritakonigpicture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1185\" \/><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">7:00 A.M.<\/strong> NPR. Turns out it is pledge week. That explains the intolerable service!  I can\u2019t retain any information other than the stuff they are giving away. <\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">8:00 A.M.<\/strong> New York <em>Times<\/em> story on children\u2019s menus. Nicola Marzovilla hates them.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">7:30 P.M.<\/strong> <em>Times<\/em> dinner at Bill Keller\u2019s house. Walk into a room of faces I don\u2019t know. See one I recognize across the room. Phew.  Can\u2019t think why I know him. Am seated next to him at dinner. Penny drops. I have been watching him (quite a lot) making stew on the screen in the back of my Jet Blue seat. He is <a href=\"http:\/\/markbittman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Bittman<\/a>, food writer from the <em>Times<\/em>. So I tell him. \u201cSigh, Yes, I get that a lot.\u201d Pretty much end of conversation. <a href=\"http:\/\/theater.nytimes.com\/ref\/theater\/BRANTLEY-BIO.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Brantley<\/a>, theater critic, on other side. Heaven. Realize this is my moment to ask about the shark fin in the Obama picture. So I ask: did they choose it on purpose? Was this a big joke at the <em>Times<\/em>? No one had noticed! Bill goes off to find a copy of the paper. Apparently, it is more likely to be a dolphin. Think I hide my disappointment reasonably well. By the end of dinner conversation has turned to <em>Real Housewives<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><h3><strong>DAY FIVE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">9:00 A.M.<\/strong> Flight to Savannah for art classes at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Last April, sitting on a panel during their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scad.edu\/scadstyle\/2010\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Style Week<\/a>, I told founder and president Paula Wallace that I really wanted to learn <a href=\"http:\/\/mathforum.org\/sum95\/math_and\/perspective\/perspect.html\" target=\"_blank\">perspective drawing<\/a>. Presto! Am on my way for three days of private tuition. <\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">10:00 A.M.<\/strong> Plane is TINY. Actually, I find that small planes are less scary than the big ones. We are jammed in like sardines. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003U2XEEO\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B003U2XEEO&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Far Cry<\/em><\/a> and eat mini pretzels. I am now loving the book. Read it all the way to the end. It is such a Persephone book.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">1:00 P.M.<\/strong> Get picked up at airport. Keith Johnson was on my plane and is also going to SCAD to shoot for his show \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/07\/arts\/television\/07globe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Man Shops Globe<\/a>.\u201d Arrive at Magnolia Hall and start lessons, almost immediately, in the Carriage House with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scad.edu\/interior-design\/faculty.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Peili Wang<\/a>. He has two HUGE plastic bags filled with art materials. The most exciting is a box with a grid of every color of marker pen! I feel about eight years old. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/kevinkline-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1272\" \/><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">9:30 P.M.<\/strong> Back from dinner and get into bed with new iPad. Watch &#8220;Real Housewives Reunion.\u201d Kelly Bensimon is so stupid, she is like Kevin Kline in <em>A Fish Called Wanda<\/em>. Move on to <em>Glee<\/em> pilot. It is so cheery after all those bitching women. Want to break into song\u2014\u201cDon\u2019t stop believing\u201d\u2014and I hate musicals! I do LOVE Jane Lynch, though. And she just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/06\/fashion\/weddings\/06JLYNCH.html\" target=\"_blank\">got married<\/a>. It was in the <em>Times<\/em> Style section.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><h3><strong>DAY SIX<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">8:00 A.M.<\/strong> Savannah. Electronic crisis. Breakfast with a computer, an iPhone and an iPad. The wireless connection is not connecting. Feel pretty silly: I am surrounded by equipment and I still can\u2019t get the news. My new <em>Times<\/em> app is the size of my iPhone in the middle of the iPad screen. Give up on news and go to class.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Manhattan-House-Sitting-Rm-Sketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Manhattan-House-Sitting-Rm-Sketch-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1273\" \/><\/a><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">10:00 A.M.<\/strong> Class. I have not been this focused on something for, maybe ever. Trying to sketch a room I have designed for a model apartment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manhattanhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">1:00 P.M.<\/strong> Go to see a friend at her shop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onefishtwofish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Fish Two Fish<\/a>. She has just got back from Alabama with her family. The last day they were there the oil arrived on the beach. <\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">10:00 P.M.<\/strong> In bed with iPad. Have <em>Friday Night Lights<\/em> waiting to be watched. Have been resisting it: a plot line involving Texan teenagers and football?  I once quit a book group after they assigned <em>End Zone<\/em>, by Don DeLillo\u2014possibly my least favorite book ever. It was like reading something in a foreign language. But my friend Amy says that she can hardly watch the show since she finds it hard to feel that much in an hour. I start the pilot. Watch three in a row.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<h3>DAY SEVEN<\/h3>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">9:00 A.M.<\/strong> Take computer down to breakfast working on \u201cCulture Diary.\u201d But end up going online to try and watch Fergie interview on <em>Oprah<\/em>. 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