{"id":1515,"date":"2007-02-09T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T19:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2007\/02\/blogs_are_personal_in_case_you\/"},"modified":"2012-12-12T23:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T04:02:59","slug":"blogs_are_personal_in_case_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2007\/02\/blogs_are_personal_in_case_you.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogs Are Personal (in Case You Hadn&#8217;t Noticed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"Moi, chez Mustill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/herman%20leafing2%20240.jpg\" width=240 align=right border=0 \/>Been gone. Now back. Why gone? Flew out west to see an old friend and collaborator, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives\/2006\/07\/hasta_la_byebye.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Norman O. Mustill<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, in his desert hideaway. Hadn&#8217;t seen him or his wife Norma in nearly 40 years. Here I am in their living room, leafing through a cherished item in his vast media collection &#8212; Bruce Bernard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Century-Bruce-Bernard\/dp\/0714838489\/ref=dp_return_1\/102-0100347-5967312?ie=UTF8&#038;n=283155&#038;s=books\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Century,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> a massive volume of photos from London&#8217;s Sunday Times Magazine chronicling the years 1899 to 1999. The main point of interest, however, is the partial view of Mustill&#8217;s large collage from the mid-1960s on the wall behind me. It&#8217;s one of several I used to see decades ago on visits to his former home in northern California. And there he is &#8212; <i>l&#8217;artiste lui-m&#234;me<\/i> &#8212; standing next to another of his large collages.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"Norman O. Mustill and one of his large collages\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/mustill%20and%20OU%20400.jpg\" width=400 \/><\/center><br \/>\nCare for a further taste of his fun &#038; games? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/down_with_culture_up_with_barb.html\">Go to Down With Culture! Up With Barbarism!<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/10\/anthem_for_america.html\">Anthem for America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been gone. Now back. Why gone? Flew out west to see an old friend and collaborator, &#8220;Century,&#8221; a massive volume of photos from London&#8217;s Sunday Times Magazine chronicling the years 1899 to 1999. The main point of interest, however, is the partial view of Mustill&#8217;s large collage from the mid-1960s on the wall behind me. 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