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Archives for June, 2008

Bill & Tony

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Sunday, June 29th 2008     

William S. Burroughs and Anthony Balch collaborate for this slice of weirdness. See the video here. – Rudy Carrera. // Share|

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A Hearty Welcome!

Posted by Rudy Carrera on Sunday, June 29th 2008     

Hello Folks! Rudy here. I am gob-smacked to see how many new posts we have going these days! It’s making for some stunning reading, and each contribution has been wonderful. I wanted to bring up a couple of small points for you all, however: Please sign your name at the bottom of each post so [...]

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A Monroeville Memoir

Posted by James Schwartz on Sunday, June 29th 2008     

by James Schwartz Although I can hear the squawk of literati, I consider TRUMAN CAPOTE the greatest American writer–ever. I discovered Capote in my teens and spent many happy hours devouring his every published word. The omnibus A Capote Reader remains my favorite volume to pursue on rainy days. On December 13, 2004 my father [...]

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Paris is 3,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought

Posted by Karl Jones on Sunday, June 29th 2008     

“An archaeological dig … moves back Paris’s first known human occupation to about 7600BC, in the Mesolithic period between the two stone ages.” An area about the size of a football field on the south-western edge of the city, close to the banks of the river Seine, has yielded thousands of flint arrowheads and fragments [...]

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Name That Color

Posted by Karl Jones on Sunday, June 29th 2008     

Online tools for browsing colors. Useful, elegant, and fun. * Name That Color * Color Name & Hue Via Color + Design Blog. ~ Karl Jones // Share|

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Mongolian Cashmere

Posted by Wei Ming Dariotis on Saturday, June 28th 2008     

Ulzii has sold two yurts already–real, whole room, boiled wool felt yurts–for only 3000 Euros each.  The full sized yurts are advertized by a much smaller table-top model that looks like an interesting child’s toy. Ulzii, who is Mongolian and was trained as a water engineer, has the most lovely cashmere shop–which is the most [...]

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"There will be Gouda"

Posted by Wei Ming Dariotis on Saturday, June 28th 2008     

Alvilda was a little concerned that Ivana, her friend from her studies at Fletcher over a decade ago who now also lives in Brussels, and I might be two too many alpha females to get along well, but that worry proved unfounded. Ivana is Croatian, and like Alvilda, is interested in international social justice issues. [...]

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Jolie Cocktail

Posted by Wei Ming Dariotis on Saturday, June 28th 2008     

Growing up in San Francisco, and having (collectively) traveled to Thailand, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Sudan, etc. my best friend, Alvilda, and I have both seen a LOT of ethnic stuff. So, normally, seeing a shop displaying more of the same doesn’t excite us in the least. However, we’d been walking all day, and it thus being [...]

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A Bomb by Any Other Name …

Posted by Karl Jones on Saturday, June 28th 2008     

“We call it an enhanced blast weapon.” – British Ministry of Defense spokesman Thermobaric weapons — explosives that burn atmospheric oxygen — posed ethical problems for the Ministry of Defense. So they renamed the weapons. The weapons are so controversial that MoD weapons and legal experts spent 18 months debating whether British troops could use [...]

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Oneness and the Heart of the World

Posted by Bonnee Klein Gilligan on Saturday, June 28th 2008     

Father Thomas Keating talks about God’s dynamic nature and the Divine Oneness of ‘All That Is’ in this wonderful inspirational video. He is wise, speaks from the heart and is sure to bring a smile. He says this about Oneness… “We’re (human beings) moving into Oneness. In other words a Oneness that we already have [...]

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