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My Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World – When I Was 12 Diversion Wednesday #10

Tony-winning director Julie Taymor and Oscar-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal talk about the challenges of narrowing down the 200-plus songs in the Beatles catalogue for their movie musical, “Across the Universe.” The film opens this Friday in New York. Julie Taymor & Eliot Goldenthal (Soundcheck: Wednesday, 12 September 2007)

Rangers #69Rangers #69

[Photograph from a New York Historical Society exhibit, “Here Is New York: Remembering 9/11.” Photographer uncredited.] Remembering Lower Manhattan’s Day of Horror, Without Pomp or Circumstance (New York Times) 9/11/01

You will be doing yourself a favour by clicking to enlarge these images – the detail is exquisite (the manuscript measures 32cm x 30cm [13 x 12 inches]). This late 12th century illuminated manuscript in Armenian script is online in the Digital Library of Poland. [or: direct link to 800+ thumbnails = big pageload] {Thanks …

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Bestselling Comics (2007) #3460Bestselling Comics (2007) #3460

Creepy #145Creepy #145

You will be tempted to skip over this post because it has the word “moderation” in the title, and instead search for a blog with “wild extremism” in the title. Moderation just ain’t as much fun. You should resist that temptation, at least for a few paragraphs. We tend to bristle at anything smelling like …

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Zhong Kui Da Zhonghua Minguo ba nian Zaojun zhi shen wei Zhong shen Guansheng Dadi Hu fa Weituo zun shen Menshen Menshen Caishen Fu zai yan qian Fu zi tian lai Ganying Yaowang Guang han gong Ancient folk religions of China include elements of Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, ancestor veneration as well as mythological deities and …

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Barton Keyes to Walter Neff: “A desk job. Is that all you can see in it? Just a hard chair to park your pants on from nine to five. Just a pile of papers to shuffle around, and five sharp pencils and a scratch pad to make figures on, with maybe a little doodling on …

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