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(taille d’origine 53×41 cm) 1966le petit train du" manège enchanté" pour les enfants (ou les nostagiques)[image: petit train polux][image: img161] (taille d'origine

“Don’t know really. Started out as something, ended up many other things. I’ve been eating a lot of figs recently. They’re good and ripe right now.” In other words, this is a Flickr set of scans of someone’s wonderfully odd sketchbook. More regrettable incidents in a life filled with bitter remorse

Classic Television Showbiz, a blog run by Kliph Nesteroff, is far and away one of my favorite sites on the World Wide Wasteland. As the name implies, it’s all about that vast wasteland we know and love/loathe called television. More to the point, it’s about old clips from TV, culled from the even vaster wasteland …

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Dragons fight in the meadow. Their blood is black and yellow. I have been throwing hexagrams for a week now, and trying to understand the I Ching. I have only the barest understanding of what is going on, but even so, they have been wildly, almost frighteningly, accurate at representing what’s going on in my …

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Here, on the morning of the Macworld keynote address, some earlier words from Steve Jobs, from a Stanford commencement address, June 12, 2005: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped …

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Designer name to come How refreshing not to see someone walking away from the camera or the creepy black porno bar across someone’s eyes for this “definitive study of writers covering their tracks.” Anonymity

Designer names to come The BDR loves anthologies: see a few more here , here and here. (And for something even cooler, keep reading.) The Book of Other People (gotta be Charles Burns illustrations, right?) comprises 23 stories by writers such as David Mitchell, Dave Eggers, George Saunders and Chris Ware. According to Publisher’s Weekly, …

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On this day in 1966, that kooky and campy Batman TV series starring Adam West and Burt Ward premiered. It featured some of the most memorable villainous performances TV history, as well as contributed the words “KAPOW” and “BAP” and “ZOK” and “FLRBBBBB” to the vocabulary of every six year-old boy in the country. This …

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This movie, with its hints of Metamorphosis and Maya Deren, probably will stand as one of the best of the last ten years.  Of course it has a deeply economic theme: how much of the value of life stems from our ability to trade, and how much from our ability to play games of pure …

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