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contact
any and every other news item/update/tidbit's gonna be posponed a little longer, because of this ( Read more... ) -
whew.
back from DC, visa in hand and phone re-charged (apologies to those I couldn't call in the last few days). synopsis to come; now it's time for bed. -
my husband the revolutionary
today we are celebrating the supermagnificent symbol of awkward sexuality that is jarvis cocker.
and smashing the system.
(we are celebrating with the video, which you must scroll down to find, and not the audio file.)
thanks kyle :) -
whaaaat
taliban, taliban, taliban, annie liebovitz, taliban...
**edit**My good and very funny friend John Santore replied to this post via email with the following ( Read more... ) -
long recap post
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banksy
he's been around for a while, I guess, but he's so brilliant:
http://www.banksy.co.uk/
The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You ( Read more... ) -
ten months in a coffin
Canadian Was Falsely Accused, Panel Says
After Tip From Ally, U.S. Sent Muslim to Syria for QuestioningBy Doug Struck ( Read more... ) -
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I finished The Kite Runner today. I haven't read a book I liked so much in a long time. it's a storyteller's book, here's why: every single detail matters. everything comes back again, sometimes in ways you predict, sometimes in ways you don't. nothing was wasted. I had a journalism teacher once who taught a long-form story writing class - he ( Read more... ) -
pretend it's whales
bobby and I started trading music at work. he gave me the cd of a friend's band, canasta, to listen to at my desk. they're pretty terrible songs; I think he knows it, but he'd just come from seeing them live the night before, and they're friends. the album's called "we were set up," so I gave him my walkmen cd, the one with "we've been had." he ( Read more... ) -
eek!
Dear Nora Achrati ( Read more... )