Now more than ever

While I'm sort of anti-word tattoo, strangely enough (I am generally a word person), some of my best friends favor wordy ink. This recor...

The Guardian has a nice short piece about Francis Bacon (the painter not the philosopher)-- Damien Hirst on Francis Bacon actually: He t...

Here is a nice triad of yummy links unrelated except that they all came through my magic portal today: 1. The best interview ever (!) courte...

While I am most decidedly a word person, I do like maps. I think they appeal to the control freak in me. I like to think of the world as org...

I think "resistence to" or "skepticism toward" might be better ways of putting it. Backing up a bit: Last week I moved o...

If you're like me, you're a last-minute citizen when it comes to some local elections and ballot measures. I vote and I try to remai...

Words escape me. (Thanks to Chris for the image .)

Get Your War On is now an animated series on 236.com. Yippee. I was going to embed the first episode here, but it doesn't want to embed,...

A sent this link to me with a note that said, "That this made me laugh out loud is indicative of degree of pms, I think." Oh yes....

Beijing takes dog off the menu for Olympics

Zombies, twinkies, and Soviet posters--what more could you possibly want? GORBACHOV: THE MUSIC VIDEO - BIGGER AND RUSSIANER from Tom St...

(From Kent Nichols )

Break-up Poem for America (with apologies to Walt Whitman) Oh America, you sad failed experiment, It was lovely while it lasted. People trie...

My day's dose of gratitude .

I know it's been two weeks since I have posted a peep here and I should be giving up something more meaty than a site of the day post, a...

Thank you Jay Bushman

So the other day I was in one of those moods where I was once again wishing for my as-yet unrealized superpower--the ability to strangle peo...

Great Photographers on the Internet (Thank you Conor )

Scary stuff : Via BoingBoing :

I grew up thinking about my body as a large inconvenient container upon which to carry my brain around, and while I've largely made piec...