Sentimental.
Maybe I’m just in a sentimental mood but this art strikes me as both genuine and tender.
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Craigslist.
About 14 years ago, I wrote a friend back east the kind of letter only a 22 year-old can write. In it, I asked why it had to be that there were no national maga...
The witness project, all the time, everywhere, on automatic.
In the shadows of horrible crimes, a glimmer of hope, provided by cell phones: But even more than the shootings, the attacks on women — horrific anywhere, but v...
Gender is zero sum, right?
From a very funny letter to Earthlings by Paul Simms: A little bit about us: our males have two penises, while our females have only one. So, gender-wise, if yo...
The movie Missing.
The 1982 drama Missing with Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek is a great movie for Americans who want to take a few steps down an alternate memory road. The Cold War...
Was it all the rain in September?
The October 5th edition of The New Yorker is not happy. Movies: “As a piece of moviemaking craft, ‘A Serious Man,’ is fascinating; in every ot...
The Kashiwa Mystery Cafe.
Cabel Sasser tells the story of the Kashiwa Mystery Cafe. A wonderful if transient place.
Water restrictions in LA lead to waterline ruptures?
The NYT: The rash of blowouts began in June, when a new drought-induced water policy went into effect, a circumstance leading outside engineers and analysts to ...
For greater efficiency, using the stick instead of the carrot in the home appliances market.
An interesting article about a lack of energy standards for consumer electronics, and its impact on our energy needs, neglects to ask the manufacturers of effic...
animals, continued.
simen johan: paintings and sculptures josh keyes: drawings and paintings cai guo-qiang: sculptures walton ford: paintings
The making of a sci fi movie poster.
A wonderfully detailed account of how the poster for an indie sci fi movie was designed. The movie’s web site also has some novel behind-the-scenes demons...
I hear that train a-comin’, it’s rollin’ ’round the bend.
On mike and maaike’s concept vehicle, the atnmbl. As energy becomes more expensive, roads more congested and computers both more powerful and cheaper, the...
Two movies about politics, neither historical.
I had heard of the movie Soylent Green so many times over the years that I may have been dulled to the experience of seeing it for first time – which I did just...
Residential hazard.
Slept with the windows open, woke up feeling like I’d smoked two cigarettes.
A game of concentration, with high end furniture.
anatijuana.com.
The Latin music industry.
The Latin music industry according to iTunes:
Musical pairs: How My Heart Behaves by Feist and Everything In Its Right Place by Radiohead
Two opens that remind me of one another: How My Heart Behaves, Feist* Everything In Its Right Place, Radiohead *fantastic audio quality thanks to Apple, Univers...
Musical pairs: Hustler by Simian Mobile Disco and Heavy Water by Foals
Two riffs that remind me of one another: Hustler, Simian Mobile Disco Heavy Water, Foals