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Amazing Heroic Adventures
I’ve been listening to Tony Judt’s Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 on audio book, and it’s gotten me in a mid-century mood. The book, by the way, has been more engaging than I expected. There are a few … Continue reading
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Ikeas Homonkulus: Meme Mash-Up Done Right
You’re heard about the Italian woman suing her local church after its painting of Jesus (the restoration of which she botched) became a tourist attraction? How about the monkey in a shearling coat that was found wandering around an IKEA … Continue reading
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Hurrah for Large Women
It’s hard not to notice the lack of large women on television – not plus-size women necessarily (whatever that means in this day and age, though would the NYTimes please not include someone who is a SIZE 8 in a … Continue reading
30 B4 30 #29: Berlin
Thinking about artists and coffee got my brain on Christoph Niemann, a graphic artist who has a recurring “strip” in the NYTimes called Abstract City (the type of art he produces varies considerably, though he tends toward a high-concept yet … Continue reading
30 B4 30 #27: Birthday Gifts
Placidus picked up on my frequent mentions that I liked a particular textile artist, Lauren Bahr, on Buy Some Damn Art, so he bought be a couple of her pieces for my 30th birthday! Though I often say things like, … Continue reading
30 B4 30 #24: Genetics
At the wedding today, the bridegroom looked like a stretched out version of his older brothers, like each son that came was a little thinner (or maybe that each son spread as he aged). I’ve noticed now that have I … Continue reading
30 B4 30 # 17: Digital Crafting
Design Sponge has instructions on photoshopping your own digital bookplate.
30 B4 30 #16: Puggle
Blog’s been a touch serious lately, so in honor of my cute animal baby loving spouse, Placidus, I bring you the puggle:
30 B4 30 # 14: Orange Cakes
Cakes baked in a campfire? In orange peels, you say? I think I need to adapt this for when I teach the “orange dispute” in my negotiation workshop; the one where one person needs the pulp and the other person … Continue reading
30 B4 30 # 11: Has God Gotten a Bad Rap?
Evolutionary psychobiosocialology + religion = the New New Atheism. The trouble, [Dominic Johnson, a professor of biopolitics at the University of Edinburgh] says, is that the New Atheists have become the face of science. On one side, there is antiscience fundamentalism. … Continue reading