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Notes on the Daytime Smoker

2007-08-26T20:51:29Z

For the daytime smoker, the cigarette is a pause button. An Official's Time-Out. A reprieve. What you notice about the daytime smoker is that when they aren't on that break, they are generally balls of kinetic energy. They wear their agitation on ...

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Potent Quotable: Calamity Physics

2007-08-26T20:29:38Z

"...never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will...

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Flashback Friday: Just as Long as We're in Love

2007-08-24T16:05:33Z

This is from his wonderful 1973 What Color Is Love? album and is so gorgeous it makes me weak at the knees. Callier has hippy tendencies which sometimes put me off him a bit, indulging in rambling nine minute songs about drugs and generally being...

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one line: From the Mouths of Babe Merchants

2007-08-20T04:49:20Z

To say you're not a feminist is virtually the same thing as saying you're a racist. - Christie Hefner in this month's GOOD Magazine (which is chock full of GOOD stuff, obvs.)

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Speakeasy: Neighborhood #9 (Power Out)

2007-08-20T04:31:41Z

Reconstruction delays have left fissures in once close-knit neighborhoods, so in an attempt to reconnect New Orleans residents to desolate areas still awaiting rebuilding, a local artist named Robert Vicknair founded Neighborhoods, a program that ...

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one line: A Literal Art House

2007-08-20T04:23:20Z

Inhabitable collapsible structure made of cardboard becomes a shelter able to provide an address to a defined group of unsheltered homeless persons, by means of radio devices, proposing a way to integrate them to society.

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Song For Sunday: Give A Little Rilo Kiley

2007-08-19T19:58:28Z

I'm going through my Amoeba purchases and audio blog downloads for the week and while there are several gems, this one, as Rilo Kiley tends to do, just smacked me right in the face.

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Tuesday Afternoon Secrets: 8 Things Better Left Unsaid... Edition

2007-08-14T21:22:19Z

Carolyn and Smokler both tagged me to do this and since I'm crabby today, I figured I'd bust it out now and say things better left unsaid. The Rules: 1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts. 2. Players start with eight rand...

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Vox Hunt: En Fuego

2007-08-13T21:35:13Z

Show us something on fire. Submitted by Allishandra. A roaring inferno of sound at their hottest during Coachella 2005

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On Falling (in love and otherwise)

2007-08-13T03:48:37Z

It shouldn't come as a surprise that at an Irish wedding, I went down like a sack of potatoes. Not five minutes after helping out a bridesmaid who had drank herself into circular thinking and walking, I was on the ground outside the Women's Cultur...

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