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Reineke Fuchs

With roots stretching back to Aesop’s Fables and the oral folk tradition, the allegorical tales of Reynard the Fox (‘Reineke Fuchs’) emerged in the 12th century as a storytelling convention, becoming conspicuously popular in Germany, France and Holland. One of the common structural themes around which the assorted…Reineke Fuchs

ONE LOVELY DRAWING, part 15

I can’t think of a better way to end 2007 than with this lovely drawing by our old friend Rembrandt. This little drawing makes me wonder why Franz Kline and Robert Motherwell thought it was necessary to invent abstract expressionism.   What an astonishing drawing and what a wonderful world we live in! Happy new …

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Applied note-taking taken to a whole new level

Your faithful blogger has recently become obsessed with the New Yorker magazine complete archive that you can purchase on a single hard disk. (Why it’s not just up on the web as a subscription service I’m not quite sure, but to have instant access to every New Yorker article ever published, I’ll take it.) As …

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Lustlab Ad of the Week: 12/27

This week’s issue of The Stranger is about the size of a pamphlet, so my cartoon is on a one-week hiatus. Instead, dear blog-reader, here is the back cover art for the book collection, featuring full-color versions of a few non-nudity ads. (In my original design, one of the ads showed a woman in a …

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Wrap Your Holiday Lights Tangle-Free [Holidays]

The holidays are nearing an end, but this year instead of balling your holiday lights up into a unwrappable knot, give yourself a break for next year and put those lights away tangle-free. Reader Chad Bailey says that our previously posted figure-eight method for wrapping headphones works like a charm for storing your holiday lights, …

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All I Want For Christmas

Oh, yeah, and world peace. Don’t wanna come off as a completely selfish and materialistic doofus. Although I’d probably take the pinball machine over world peace. More fun. So, what useless crap would you like/would have liked for the holidays? I just tossed in some stuff from my image files, I’d actually prefer, to quote …

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Weekend Links: Don’t Love Your Work, Gain Weight, and Stop Multi-Tasking…

Interesting links from around the web to help you through your weekend Study Hacks withdrawal… A Stocking Full of Holiday Productivity Bad career advice: Do what you love | Brazen Careerist Penelope slams a cherished piece of career advice. And I couldn’t agree more. Worried about post-graduation? Read this… When Are You Happiest? | Scott …

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