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In Flower Conroys debut collection of poems, she writes, some babies are relieved to be born, freed from their claustrophobic sleeping bags, heralding the Bildungsroman in verse this book will be. Told with pith, wit, and full of desire and heat, these poems seek to understand and forgive. In the wildly self-aware poem, EVELYNS BEDROOM WHILE EVELYN WATCHED TV & ATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH ICE CREAM OUT OF THE CONTAINER , Conroys speaker says, Upset? I wasn t upset. I was hysterical./ Inconsolable. Overly emotional. Wrecked. //Then I got over it, and when in the final poem, Only Idiots Get Tattoos, she writes, My favorite tattoos/ the one on the back of my neck in memory of my fathers/ passing: an upturned horseshoe, carried up, by wings we know how hard won, how complex the journey has been, and, too, that the next leg of the poets journey has only just begun. Conroys searing, musically charged poems, dirty, hopeful, and sometimes cuttingly funny, will please and illumine with singular muscularity and a dash of black mascara. --Laura McCullough

The best way to brighten up some one’s day, is by getting them flowers. Today I went to Conroy’s Flowers to pick some up for Niel’s parents (mostly for his mom). I wanted to get a bouquet, but the ones they had looked like crap for the price they were charging. I ended up buying random flowers that ended up being $40 w/out a vase and they looked WAY better than the ones that were already arranged. It was also Clarence’s birthday. We went I Love Sushi. Note: DO NOT get their Ramen there. It was lukewarm and the taste was not all that great. I will for sure be Yelping that place.

Phrag longifolium x Phrag. caudatum var. wallisii
Phrag. Paul Eugene Conroy produces flowers that are similar to the well-known Phrag. Grande, except that the wallisii influence tends to shift the color palette towards the golds and greens. This particular plant inherited the successive-blooming habit of the longifolium parent, with each flower lasting about 4 weeks, but other clones of this grex may inherit wallisii's simultaneous-blooming habit to varying degrees.
2008 10 16

Bill Murray (Lost in Translation) stars in the comedic story of an aging Don Juan who hits the road on a revealing and humorous cross-country journey. When a mysterious pink letter informs Don Johnston (Murray) that he may have a 19-year-old son, he visits four former lovers, where he comes face to face with the errors of his past and the possibilities of the future. From acclaimed director Jim Jarmusch and co-starring Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, and Jeffrey Wright, Broken Flowers is the highly original comedy that Peter Travers of Rolling Stone says is "filled with wonderful mischief" and "brings out the best in Bill Murray." Starring: Bill Murray, Sharon Stone, Jessica Lange, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Frances Conroy, Julie Delpy, Mark Webber, Chloe Sevigny, Christopher McDonald, Alexis Dziena Directed by: Jim Jarmusch

Bill Murray gives yet another simple, seemingly effortless, yet illuminating performance in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers. Don Johnston (Murray, Lost in Translation, Rushmore) receives an anonymous letter telling him that he has a 19 year old son who's looking for him. Don only decides to investigate at the prompting of his neighbor Winston (the indispensable Jeffrey Wright, Shaft, Basquiat), who not only tracks down the current addresses of the possible mothers, he plans Don's entire trip down to the rental cars. Almost against his will, Don finds himself knocking at the doors of four very different women (Sharon Stone, The Quick and the Dead; Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under; Jessica Lange, Sweet Dreams; and Tilda Swinton, The Deep End) who were once his lovers. Part road movie, part detective story, part existential meditation, Broken Flowers is even more minimalist than most Jarmusch movies (Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man, Mystery Train)--anyone looking for an easy resolution should look elsewhere. But for anyone willing to let a movie be a poem as much as a story--i.e., let it observe behavior without explaining it--Broken Flowers will offer a wealth of mysteries, gestures, and Bill Murray's soulful eyes. It's a movie that's wonderfully eloquent about what's not being said. --Bret Fetzer