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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc9y5ayeeb4

check the comment thread for a bonus laugh at how seriously some people are taking it!

- The "Red Letter Plays" ("In The Blood" produced in 1999, and "Fucking A," produced in 2000) by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, re-wrote "The Scarlet Letter," placing it in both contemporary New York and Houston.

-Wikipedia

found via Andrew Sullivan's blog: a lot of COLOR photos of America between 1939 and 1945, organized by the Library of Congress.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsacsubjindex1.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/us/29tram.html?ex=1170738000&en=c08be023962d194c&ei=5070&emc=eta1

I've decided to take my art to the final frontier: representation. I know, it's so old-fashioned it's like new again!

( pitchers )

For months I've been mulling over the connection between FOX News's obvious right-wing orientation and its obsessive coverage of salacious crime stories, especially those concerning children. There are a few possibilities: the political slant and the crime stories are unrelated; they're making a demographics calculation, shooting for the lowest ( Read more... )

...where's the remotest island on earth? I have often wondered this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvetoya

"many Iraqis have no allegiance to the government in Baghdad. They are essentially home boys. They support their local imams and leaders. It's the same old story of tribalism over unification." -(M.C.) Bill O'Reilly

"The antithesis between quantity and quality, substance and form, corresponds to the opposition---linked to different distances from necessity---between the taste of necessity, which favours the most 'filling' and most economical foods, and the taste of liberty---or luxury---which shifts the emphasis to the manner (of presenting, serving, eating ( Read more... )