The NYTimes recently published<\/a> an image of Ambroella trichopoda as the sole surviving member of the oldest extant family of flowering plants, “a small shrub found only on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific.”<\/p>\n I am reminded of our good friend Wes<\/a> and his Ou sont les fleurs d’antan? <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Wes was so<\/i> star-struck. Reminds me of the Leigh Bowery<\/a>-Mick Jagger exchange. Late one night in From email: The NYTimes recently published an image of Ambroella trichopoda as the sole surviving member of the oldest extant family of flowering plants, “a small shrub found only on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific.” I am reminded of our good friend Wes and his accosting Kathryn Hepburn on the stairs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\naccosting Kathryn Hepburn on the stairs of the Burke Museum<\/a>, giving her
\na fossil flower from Republic, and in his charming but star-struck
\nmanner, inadvertently comparing her to same.<\/p>\n![\"fossilflower.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/fossilflower.jpg\")
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I responded:<\/p>\n
\na bar in London, Bowery turned around and bumped into
\nJagger. Jagger said, “Out of my way, freak.” Bowery responded, “Out of my<\/i> way, fossil.” (Image via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"leighboweryorgne.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/leighboweryorgne.jpg\")
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